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$250k of DigitalOcean credits for YC startups

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Re: $250k of DigitalOcean credits for YC startups

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Post by ewindisch »

devsquid wrote: post #172
ewindisch wrote: post #79

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My experience has been positive. Their team has been doing good work. For example, Azure had the first/best Docker integration of all the cloud providers. What they had was superseded by docker-machine and swarm eventually, but they were definitely thinking ahead of the curve. As a user of Azure, I admit that find some aspects of the service unusual, such as requiring users to pick a globally-unique identifier for ev…

GCN and AWS both have very easy drop in Docker support. I'm not sure how it could get any easier.

Yes, they do, but Azure beat them to offer first-class support and did so with their own Docker-API compatible endpoint. This was back around the first Dockercon in 2014. Rackspace had a similar integration at the time, but I was definitely more impressed by what Azure was doing.

Re: $250k of DigitalOcean credits for YC startups

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Post by ybx »

z92 wrote: post #177
tombrossman wrote: post #151

144 comments as I type this and I can't believe no one has mentioned OVH yet. I'm a happy customer of DigitalOcean, AWS, and OVH and my default choice for a while now has been OVH. DigitalOcean beats everyone in ease of use and UX, and AWS obviously has huge potential for scaling, but OVH consistently beats DigitalOcean in VPS performance and they include DDOS protection as standard. Test for yourself, fire up simila…

Looks like OVH starts at $34/month. While, at DO you can start at $5/month.

There's also https://www.kimsufi.com/en/

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Post by xeromal »

gionn wrote: post #180
preynal wrote: post #178

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No, they start at $3.49/month, https://www.ovh.com/us/vps/

That's what happens when website structure is decided by marketing people.

Yeah, I was in the Cloud section and like how the fuck can this compete with DO???

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Post by Veratyr »

sschueller wrote: post #161
tombrossman wrote: post #151

144 comments as I type this and I can't believe no one has mentioned OVH yet. I'm a happy customer of DigitalOcean, AWS, and OVH and my default choice for a while now has been OVH. DigitalOcean beats everyone in ease of use and UX, and AWS obviously has huge potential for scaling, but OVH consistently beats DigitalOcean in VPS performance and they include DDOS protection as standard. Test for yourself, fire up simila…

Also checkout https://www.vultr.com/ . They let you boot via iPXE and have many locations.

Seconded. I ran some basic benchmarks and found that Vultr outperformed DO rather consistently.

Vultr: https://gist.github.com/bobobo1618/0972fc51f49d90fb37af

DO: https://gist.github.com/bobobo1618/81aa3f413b99aaab1f0d

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Post by devsquid »

ogsharkman wrote: post #184
devsquid wrote: post #171

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wut?? Azure is about 30-50% more expensive than AWS or GCN. I look around every time I have a new client, look for yourself. I think they've just won favor of startups recently because they've been subsidizing their cloud costs. If theres one thing Microsoft has, its business savvy.

I am consistently surprised by Azure pricing when I look to spin new stuff up (luckily I'm not paying for it). Not to mention I lose connectivity to some of my v12 sql databases randomly.

well to be sure not to get locked in then.

Re: $250k of DigitalOcean credits for YC startups

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Post by 5ersi »

_urga wrote: post #175
tombrossman wrote: post #151

144 comments as I type this and I can't believe no one has mentioned OVH yet. I'm a happy customer of DigitalOcean, AWS, and OVH and my default choice for a while now has been OVH. DigitalOcean beats everyone in ease of use and UX, and AWS obviously has huge potential for scaling, but OVH consistently beats DigitalOcean in VPS performance and they include DDOS protection as standard. Test for yourself, fire up simila…

See also: http://hetzner.de

I second Hetzner. See their "server borse" for best value: https://robot.your-server.de/order/market/

I just snatched a 6-core Xeon E5-1650v2 with 64GB RAM and 2x240GB datacentre SSD (samsung 840 Pro) for 70eur/month, no setup fee. A steal.

Re: $250k of DigitalOcean credits for YC startups

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Post by 5ersi »

s_kilk wrote: post #207
s_kilk wrote: post #195

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> Microsoft Azure gives hosting to startups under their Bizspark program My curiosity piqued, I just tried to sign up for BizSpark: 1. I go to http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/ 2. It's "Down for maintenance" 3. Try again in an hour 4. Still down 5. Lightbulb goes off, check status.azure.com 6. "We're having issues." 7. Hmmmmm... Probably not a coincidence.

Almost four hours later and it's still down. Really doesn't inspire confidence.

8 hours, still down.

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Post by andrewthetechie »

dayon wrote: post #146
cddotdotslash wrote: post #132

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Let's add to this the fact that if you're under a DOS attack with DigitalOcean they disconnect your machine from the internet (making it impossible for you to log in and do log analysis, etc.), send you an email saying "figure out what's happening and stop it", and then reconnect your machine several hours later only to repeat the process practically as soon as it's back online (assuming the DOS continues). I wouldn'…

I was about to post this. My project received a DDOS, and I could not access my droplet for over 12 hours.

Just to clarify, DigitalOcean does not offer any form of DoS mitigation services so they blackhole during a DoS. Its for 3 hours, a lot less than other providers.

If you've got a DoS issue, you definitely need a 3rd party DoS protection service. Cloudflare free works pretty well

Re: $250k of DigitalOcean credits for YC startups

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Post by manigandham »

curun1r wrote: post #24
andrewstuart wrote: post #3

Aren't there a bunch of offers of free cloud hosting for Startups? We should list them here. And you don't need to be a YC company...... Microsoft Azure gives hosting to startups under their Bizspark program - get over your prejudice - it's a great way to run Linux machines. Softlayer and Rackspace I think also have programs for startups. Any other companies offer free hosting to startups?

Unfortunately, all of these require that you be part of some accelerator or receive VC funding before you can take advantage of the discounts. Founders trying to bootstrap a company without external funding are SOL. It strikes me that these cloud hosting companies are really interested in businesses that value growth above profits and are willing to ignore startups who try to manage costs to get to profitability more…

That's absolutely not true.

All of these providers have multiple levels. There's a cheap option of usually a few hundred or thousand then the upscale option with 5 or 6 figures over a year.

We got into higher tier AWS Activate for $25k/year by just asking. Then we worked with a MS Azure evangelist to get us into the $120k/year program. We would've made it but declined because we asked Softlayer and they gave us $120k/year first and their network was a better fit for us.

Lesson: JUST ASK. There are entire teams of people at these companies who are working to get more customers onboarded and will do whatever they can to help you.

Re: $250k of DigitalOcean credits for YC startups

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Post by lobster_johnson »

andrewsomething wrote: post #101
lobster_johnson wrote: post #87

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Are you planning to offer storage options? I find it's ridiculous to have to upgrade to a higher CPU/RAM plan (or add a new node) just because we're running out of disk space. We don't need detachable volumes or anything fancy, just the ability to increase the amount of disk storage.

Storage is also an area we're working on heavily right now, and we should have some good news soon. We definitely recognize that there's a lot of demand for more storage without the need for the corresponding upgrade in compute power. Check out the update from our product team on this UserVoice request, and vote/subscribe to get updates: http://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digitalocean...

Thanks!
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