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Re: Digital Ocean Managed Databases

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Post by tracker1 » Wed, Oct 24, 2018, 10:23 PM UTC

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.

Because spending $25-50/month on side projects that may sit for a while before I pick it up again is one thing. Spending hundreds a month is another. DO is significantly faster at any price point than what you get from lightsail or aws-ec2. Beyond that, I'd be more inclined to use Azure's data services simply because I like the interfaces better and far less hassle to get started with. I'd probably use SQL minimally and lean on AWS Tables quite a bit.

For a DO only solution, I'd probably use SQL more and then rely on their blob (s3 compatible) storage for some bits. I have a few small projects that I've been getting anxious to finally work on, and don't want to spend a bunch of money on them in the interim.

In case of modest growth, I also don't want to be hamstrung doing DB operations work for something that isn't actually making me money... I'll split things up to save a bit in the nearer term so long as I can have a migration path.

If I did split with data in azure/aws and the apps in DO, I might go all azure later, or I might go all DO and take on the DB operations side... it depends on if/how things grow.

Re: Digital Ocean Managed Databases

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Post by ianwalter » Wed, Oct 24, 2018, 10:29 PM UTC

This is great but I wish they would give some more insight into the early access system. Ive been waiting for Kubernetes access for what seems like an eternity.

Re: Digital Ocean Managed Databases

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Post by mr_toad » Wed, Oct 24, 2018, 10:44 PM UTC

l5870uoo9y wrote: post #30

Anybody hosting an online business on Digital Ocean (or similar VPS)? All companies I see all use Heruko, AWS or GCP.

Netcraft ranked them as the second largest web-facing hosting provider a couple of years back, and they seem to be growing rapidly.

https://news.netcraft.com/archives/2015/05/01/digitalocean-b...

I suspect that DO is a factor in AWS introducing Lightsail.

Re: Digital Ocean Managed Databases

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Post by bk_avalara » Wed, Oct 24, 2018, 10:45 PM UTC

dylrich wrote: post #38

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.

We ran into this same problem. The RDS team fixed this earlier this month when they launched support for 10.5. It's buried in this blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/rds-postg...

Re: Digital Ocean Managed Databases

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Post by sixdimensional » Wed, Oct 24, 2018, 10:50 PM UTC

joshgachnang wrote: post #11

That's really exciting! DO is knocking it out the park lately as "AWS...but easy to use". I'd love to see Mongo as a managed DB.

You can get something with a MongoDB API if you use Microsoft's CosmosDB, although it is very expensive and not actually Mongo underneath. But it has some pretty impressive technical specs too, especially geographically distributed multi-master writes and impressive response times. I don't work for MS and haven't used the Mongo API, just aware of it.

Re: Digital Ocean Managed Databases

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Post by Implicated » Wed, Oct 24, 2018, 11:05 PM UTC

thinkshiv wrote: post #35

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.

Any chance someone could fast-track an inclusion for me of both the k8s and managed db solutions?

I'm leading a team that is _literally_ days away from provisioning a cluster for an existing production SaaS application that's currently on DO vm's. Would prefer to stay with DO..

My email is in profile - happy to answer any questions.

Re: Digital Ocean Managed Databases

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Post by copperx » Wed, Oct 24, 2018, 11:11 PM UTC

pmiri wrote: post #55

This is the product that can finally get me to totally switch off of AWS. Droplets Spaces Managed Databases <- RDS

Is Spaces fully compatible with the S3 API, in your experience?

Re: Digital Ocean Managed Databases

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Post by phildougherty » Wed, Oct 24, 2018, 11:22 PM UTC

Implicated wrote: post #126

thinkshiv wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Any chance someone could fast-track an inclusion for me of both the k8s and managed db solutions? I'm leading a team that is _literally_ days away from provisioning a cluster for an existing production SaaS application that's currently on DO vm's. Would prefer to stay with DO.. My email is in profile - happy to answer any questions.

Hey there! DO Kubernetes PM here.

I just added you so you have access to the product. I will reach out to the PM on DBaaS as well.

Re: Digital Ocean Managed Databases

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Post by plainOldText » Wed, Oct 24, 2018, 11:29 PM UTC

raiyu wrote: post #99

plainOldText wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No question fraud exists on all these platforms, however, if anyone is wrongly flagged by an algorithm, reaching out to the company must be followed by a prompt and timely response, so any misfortune can be remediated. I would assume fraudsters wouldn't typically reach out to have their accounts reinstated. In the digital age, startups and businesses rely on cloud providers for their livelihood. These providers must…

We have an entire fraud and safety team whose sole purpose is to deal with these situations. Every account that is flagged is notified. Every account is communicated with and there are always replies sent. Unless a droplet is actively being malicious, such as sending out a DDoS attack, or performing some other sort of determined malicious activity, there is absolutely no interruption in service. The account is locked…

Thanks for chiming in. I’m very pleased to see you engaged with your customers/potential customers; especially in a high stakes community such as HN.

I’m not going to comment any more on this situation as I don’t know all the details, I do hope I won’t see comments of unhappy DO customers on HN in the future, as that would be a sign you guys are not up to expectations.

P.S. I have been a happy DO customer for years; thus far (:

Re: Digital Ocean Managed Databases

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Post by timmaah » Wed, Oct 24, 2018, 11:46 PM UTC

jangerhofer wrote: post #118

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!

Someone must have toggled the k8s beta switch for me. It wasn't there earlier.