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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.
Digital Ocean Managed Databases
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#133I 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?
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#135So 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.
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DO is cheaper for the servers. AWS is nice, but expensive. If you have the money, use it. If you are bootstrapping or willing to take on challenges yourself, DO like environments will save you a lot.
...yeah, but if best value for money would be the absolute goal, DO itself is quite expensive compared to Hetzner or Linode last time I compared. Others like OVH or Scaleway could be even cheaper.
If I physically operate in the US and I base my servers in the EU, then I open myself up to not only US but also EU jurisdiction and compliance in a myriad of ways. It's an entirely unnecesary additional burden in exchange for a discount on infrastructure (which is rarely the biggest cost in anything these days).
I have no intention of ever complying with GDPR for example, unless I'm running a very large organization. Not because I disagree with most of GDPR, rather, because I'm going to comply with US laws, as that's my legal jurisdiction and those are the laws I'm governed by.
Hosting with Scaleway, OVH or Hetzner is a big jurisdiction mistake in most cases for smaller US organizations, just as it would be to arbitrarily host in Japan or China or Brazil (ie foreign locales with entirely different laws).
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#139I 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.
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#140I 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.
I am definitely on that particular boat. I'll add one more point: - Not very willing to setup DBs for several projects both paid and hobby because it's a fixed time sink. And before anybody tells me "but with this script it can take 2 minutes!" please don't forget that to learn to use your magical script I have to learn a few other things beforehand. (Although admittedly that's most likely a small time investment.)