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Re: Digital Ocean Managed Databases

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Post by coder543 » Wed, Oct 24, 2018, 6:44 PM UTC

St-Clock wrote: post #26

I wonder if this is a response to Amazon Lightsail[1] now offering managed database? [1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-managed-databases-for-a...

Considering it was announced at least as far back as August[0], I highly doubt it.

[0]: https://blog.digitalocean.com/2018-mid-year-product-update/ (look at the bottom of the article)

Re: Digital Ocean Managed Databases

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Post by Scarbutt » Wed, Oct 24, 2018, 6:47 PM UTC

joering2 wrote: post #21

tnolet wrote: post #14

Just started using the new Kubernetes offering on Digital Ocean. Still in Beta but works pretty good. If this is a sign for how they will do databases, I'm all ears. Add CI/CD and you have a Heroku competitor.

Glad you are having fun working on your after hours side project with DO. But please DO NOT host with DO if you plan to run a real production systems, build a company, hire people etc. I have never found a better company to spun off a server and play with some settings but when their algorithm decides there is something fishy, bye bye your account, servers, backups, you never going to see any of this ever again. The…

This is bad, but your data should have also resided somewhere outside DO.

Re: Digital Ocean Managed Databases

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Post by sgc » Wed, Oct 24, 2018, 6:48 PM UTC

joering2 wrote: post #21

tnolet wrote: post #14

Just started using the new Kubernetes offering on Digital Ocean. Still in Beta but works pretty good. If this is a sign for how they will do databases, I'm all ears. Add CI/CD and you have a Heroku competitor.

Glad you are having fun working on your after hours side project with DO. But please DO NOT host with DO if you plan to run a real production systems, build a company, hire people etc. I have never found a better company to spun off a server and play with some settings but when their algorithm decides there is something fishy, bye bye your account, servers, backups, you never going to see any of this ever again. The…

Chiming in with everyone else. I would like more info from OP and DO since I host all my sites there.

Re: Digital Ocean Managed Databases

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Post by thinkshiv » Wed, Oct 24, 2018, 6:53 PM UTC

bonsai80 wrote: post #9

I don't see any mention of the cost. Is that listed somewhere?

Hi there, this is Shiv - I am the VP of Product at DigitalOcean. Thanks for asking about pricing. We are still working out the pricing details. I can tell you it won't be just the cost of the Droplet because this is a managed service with lots of additional features that you would not get with the current Droplet product.

Re: Digital Ocean Managed Databases

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Post by thinkshiv » Wed, Oct 24, 2018, 6:55 PM UTC

St-Clock wrote: post #26

I wonder if this is a response to Amazon Lightsail[1] now offering managed database? [1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-managed-databases-for-a...

Hi there! I lead products at DO and we've had DBaaS on our roadmap for some time now.

Re: Digital Ocean Managed Databases

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Post by thinkshiv » Wed, Oct 24, 2018, 6:56 PM UTC

jagger27 wrote: post #7

Well that news just made feel great about picking Postgres for my current SaaS project. Definitely going to be migrating over once I get access! I wonder how long they've been working on this.

We've been working on this for some time. We announced earlier in the year that we want to offer this type of a managed service and we will start with one engine for now. Disclosure: I lead Products at DigitalOcean.

Re: Digital Ocean Managed Databases

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Post by ZWoz » Wed, Oct 24, 2018, 6:57 PM UTC

nerdywordy wrote: post #6

I for one have always liked the simplicity of DO for hosting but I've never wanted to take on the full liability of self-rolling a DB server (and backups and replicas). So everything my company has I've put on heroku or azure. This has potential to be really significant as I'd wager there are a lot of folks in similar situations.

Can you explain it more? Why you think that running your own DB instance is such overhead? Are you ever tried running your own, with mysql/mariadb for example?

Re: Digital Ocean Managed Databases

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Post by dylrich » Wed, Oct 24, 2018, 6:58 PM UTC

If anyone from DO is around - Will libprotobuf-c be available on managed postgres? I ask because for the longest time AWS RDS didn't support cutting Mapbox Vector Tiles from PostGIS.

Re: Digital Ocean Managed Databases

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Post by tyingq » Wed, Oct 24, 2018, 6:58 PM UTC

So now they have managed databases, load balancers, a cloud firewall that's partially VPC like, object storage and block storage.

Assuming managed K8S is next, or maybe more "AZ/Region" h/a features. Great to have a new player coming into this space. Especially one with reasonable egress charges.

Re: Digital Ocean Managed Databases

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Post by joering2 » Wed, Oct 24, 2018, 6:58 PM UTC

Scarbutt wrote: post #32

joering2 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Glad you are having fun working on your after hours side project with DO. But please DO NOT host with DO if you plan to run a real production systems, build a company, hire people etc. I have never found a better company to spun off a server and play with some settings but when their algorithm decides there is something fishy, bye bye your account, servers, backups, you never going to see any of this ever again. The…

This is bad, but your data should have also resided somewhere outside DO.

I was only technical adviser for a while, but I know they did offsite backups but its hard to have these up to a minute. So they tried to recover the latest version of their DB so that truly no records are missing.

Edit: my original post got downvoted severely in few minutes from posting. Hello DigitalOcean staff and/or owners!