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Re: Digital Ocean Managed Databases

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Post by Ayesh »

nnq wrote: post #92
tracker1 wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was literally going to spend the weekend testing latency between the US DO data centers and VMs on Azure and AWS just to see if any were pretty reasonable (consistently under 10ms) so I could use DO for my application and Azure or AWS for the DB hosting and management. This is incredibly great timing.

...then why not just use AWS's Lightsail instead of DO so you can use AWS RDS without worrying about latency? (Or the equivalent for Azure or GCP.) Really asking, bc for next personal projects I was getting ready to abandon DO and use AWS Lightsail + RDS.

I wrote a review (https://ayesh.me/amazon-lightsail-review) of Lightsail when it came out. Although the specs are ok in paper, their Network is slow. I still would like to switch to Lightsail because I already use Route53 and CloudFront, but I wouldn't go with them for their Network speeds.

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Post by rhizome »

timdev2 wrote: post #54
ZWoz wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Mostly because databases are the key piece o data-persistence infrastructure. Spinning up a MySQL db to dev against, or a single server for a hobby project is quick and easy. In production, all of a sudden you have a lot of work to do, especially around HA. Figure out replication, get it working, figure out how to monitor/alert if it stops working, figure out failover, figure out how to test that failover actually wo…

For a lot of situations, MySQL with backups and a hot standby is fine.

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Post by wild_preference »

Something1234 wrote: post #109
ljosa wrote: post #104

How is DigitalOcean's resilience to DDoS attacks? After Linode's giant DDoS-related outages a couple of years ago, I moved everything to AWS on the theory that they (along with Google and Azure) would be better at mitigating similar attacks. Would be nice to have DO as an option.

Wait I thought AWS made you pay if you got hit with a DDoS or even a moderate amount of traffic. It's just there is no cap on costs if you have any kind of autoscaling enabled. There use to be many posts complaining about surprise charges on AWS.

You basically politely ask AWS if they will refund you when you're DDoSed and hope the attack is apparent enough to pass their threshold.

They were generous enough, but at the expense of uncertainty + you needing to play an active role in getting them to pay your bill. Depending on what sort of service you run, it may be a constant ordeal.

After getting some large CloudFront bills taken care of, I left and wondered what sort of person had the stomach it.

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Post by jkchu »

whitepoplar wrote: post #2

Wow, this is fantastic news! I think this opens the floodgates for lots of people who currently use Heroku, and would like to use simple VPS's without jumping into the headache that is AWS. Any word on pricing?

What are your objections/concerns against using AWS?

I have used it both for work and in personal projects and haven't ran into any issues/headaches.

Re: Digital Ocean Managed Databases

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Post by tracker1 »

jason_slack wrote: post #44

I 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.

DO's block storage is around $10:100GB though it probably won't have as flexible capacity planning for you, so you'll likely want to start around 2TB to account for 2+ years growth.

note: I'm not affiliated with DO in any way and pricing and capacity are only speculation.

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Post by james_in_the_uk »

thecus wrote: post #74
plainOldText wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I suspect that any cloud provider has enormous amounts of fraud on it and no tooling is 100% error free. It's also important to note that GDPR has specific exemptions for companies responding suspected security/fraud related issues. I love DO because the performance for the price is great. Also have no issue supporting emerging tech companies with cultures I connect with.

GDPR does not have specific exemptions for fraud. It is often possible to process personal data for anti fraud purposes but it requires a full legal assessment in the same way as any other processing activity would.

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Post by jangerhofer »

timmaah wrote: post #70

I see some DO employees around.. What is the trick for getting access to the new Kubernetes and/or postgres betas? I'd love to use both for my side hustle (Currently on normal DO droplets) EDIT - I now see the kubernetes option in my DO account. Thanks!

Where did you find the K8s listing? I'm in a similar boat!
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