This is good news. I look forward to seeing the managed MySQL option.
yes, it's next on our roadmap of engines. I work at DO FYI.
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#42Would be awesome if DO also included support for MemSQL.
I know MemSQL back in 2017 announced managed services, but I'm pretty sure they closed it. Although I can't find a link.
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#43Earlier 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…
Our team is currently migrating our whole production system from Linode and GCP to Digital Ocean. Your comment is raising warnings, I'd like to hear more from DO itself.
Out for curiosity but asking honestly: what made you chose DO from all providers out there? It sounds like you have a serious setup that most likely is production and probably makes money. You do know that DO does not provide over the phone help, right? So if your server goes down you open the ticket and you wait... Yes they do offer SLA because I was in heavy email chain back and forth when moving one of my clients from Rackspace and they were sold on DO being the right choice, but again I was explained no phone support - only that your emails to customer support are prioritized.
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#44I bet it is going to be very expensive. I have a 300gb MySQL database that needs a more reliable home. I add about 800mb if data a day.
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#45This looks fantastic, Heroku definitely could use some competition. I love them but the only other option is using some insane AWS stuff with nonsensical icons and naming. Hope this takes off and adds a nice CI.
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#46So 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.
They already have Kubernetes in preview: https://www.digitalocean.com/products/kubernetes/
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#47This looks fantastic, Heroku definitely could use some competition. I love them but the only other option is using some insane AWS stuff with nonsensical icons and naming. Hope this takes off and adds a nice CI.
Insane? AWS RDS is rather self-contained and simple enough to get started with if you use the defaults. They also offer managed dbs as a simpler option with Lightsail: https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/
And there are tons of managed database hosting providers outside of Heroku.
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#48Sweet mother! #1 thing you can do to make this compete with RDS and Cloud SQL would be to support extensions out there that they don’t. HypoPG needed by Dexter, pg_partman, etc. Lack of certain extensions is the biggest failing of those offerings IMO.
I believe most of those are offered by Citus Cloud [0]. I know it's not the same, but you can spin just a single worker and essentially end with a faster PG than the vanilla PG. [0] https://www.citusdata.com/product/cloud
Isn’t Citus AWS only right now though?
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#49Just 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…
These are some serious allegations. If this is true then DogitalOcean needs to explain themselves.
I guess, one should also have backups off site. Relying on just one provider constitutes a single point of failure.
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#50Would be awesome if DO also included support for MemSQL. I know MemSQL back in 2017 announced managed services, but I'm pretty sure they closed it. Although I can't find a link.
MemSQL is a great product but it's a niche offering and requires proprietary licensing by capacity so it'll probably never be provided as a managed offering by anyone, especially by a smaller player like DO.