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Re: DigitalOcean launches its container service

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Post by thejosh »

StudentStuff wrote: post #190
geerlingguy wrote: post #182

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That and as a user of 12 different LowEndBox-style providers, DigitalOcean is only marginally more expensive, with way less downtime, faster support response, an easy to use API, integrations with everything, and even planned maintenance windows which are clearly communicated. Most of the lower priced options are run on a more shoestring budget and get uptime measured in the 98s. Also, I find a lot more noisy neighbo…

Perhaps OVH is worth a gander, I find it strikes a good balance between DO's pricing and the LowEndTalk providers, yet the uptime is still impressive. https://www.ovh.com/world/vps/vps-ssd.xml

OVH is horrendous for their dedicated offering, especially when trying to cancel.

Their webapp wouldn't work, they wanted me to do an API call to cancel, as they couldn't fix their UI.

Re: DigitalOcean launches its container service

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Post by StudentStuff »

thejosh wrote: post #191
StudentStuff wrote: post #190

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Perhaps OVH is worth a gander, I find it strikes a good balance between DO's pricing and the LowEndTalk providers, yet the uptime is still impressive. https://www.ovh.com/world/vps/vps-ssd.xml

OVH is horrendous for their dedicated offering, especially when trying to cancel. Their webapp wouldn't work, they wanted me to do an API call to cancel, as they couldn't fix their UI.

Huh, I haven't had this issue on any of their brands. They tend to catch and fix most issues before I become aware on the dedicated machines I have with them.

FYI OVH is a key contributor to OpenStack, they've made quite a few contributions to Ceph, sponsored LetsEncrypt, and host most game servers (and even Wikileaks!).

Re: DigitalOcean launches its container service

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Post by suls »

mark-ruwt wrote: post #72
rfinney wrote: post #34

Serious question: Is there an emerging cross platform workflow language to just write stuff to run on any cloud/container hosting setup? The idea would be to be portable, avoid vendor lock-in and take advantage price differences or quickly route around a system failure in one of the providers.

We rely on bash. Each machine that's spun up is built from scratch via one command-line call. The first half of the process interacts with each hosting API (we rely on DigitalOcean, Linode, and Vultr primarily), to build a clean slate machine with all of the packages and libraries that we expect. The second half of the process runs the actual build process, building the instance step-by-step on top of the clean slate…

Wondering how what you did compares to cloudinit? https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Re: DigitalOcean launches its container service

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Post by johnklos »

This would be nice if the company didn't ignore all of the spam which comes from their network and the spamvertized sites they host. They deliberately ignore reports sent to their abuse address and attempt to avoid responsibility by making people who want to report abuse jump through hoops to break down spam and submit it in a web form.

Companies which protect spammers will never get any business from me, plus their email reputation is already pretty crappy, so why would I ever want to run containers on their networks?

Re: DigitalOcean launches its container service

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Post by vorticalbox »

fermienrico wrote: post #105
talkingtab wrote: post #86

DO's kubernetes release is an an example of why I am a big fan. As a sole developer, I can't afford high technical debt, but DO packages tech in a way I can manage. I hope they keep on and wish other services (here's looking at you AWS) would package their services as well.

I am a mechanical engineer who dabbles in web development from time to time. I am forever indebted to DigitalOcean for creating a super easy platform for someone who has no clue about VPS starting out. I know how to operate a linux machine but not the slightest idea about how to host a website myself until I came across DigitalOcean and their LAMP/LEMP tutorials. Once I was comfortable with DigitalOcean, I tried laun…

Aws can be complicated that's why we have a we use terraform to spin up our infrastructure and link it all together.

Re: DigitalOcean launches its container service

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Post by vorticalbox »

RSZC wrote: post #189
philtar wrote: post #187

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Digital Ocean Droplet AWS Micro Instance AWS Lightsail Linode Nanonode Shared Hosting ----- Tons of options for $5 a month.

Sorry, should've been more specific - looking for the same sort of 'provide a container and we take care of everything else' experience, but ideally for a cheaper price. I know I could get a micro instance and set up ECS on it, but it just seems like such a royal PITA... Also like how my deploy script is basically 'build image; push image; aws ecs update-service'. With my side projects that are running on a droplet,…

I would look into the first option, Digital ocean's droplets.

You deploy a docker container and they handle the rest

Re: DigitalOcean launches its container service

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Post by dmihal »

fermienrico wrote: post #105
talkingtab wrote: post #86

DO's kubernetes release is an an example of why I am a big fan. As a sole developer, I can't afford high technical debt, but DO packages tech in a way I can manage. I hope they keep on and wish other services (here's looking at you AWS) would package their services as well.

I am a mechanical engineer who dabbles in web development from time to time. I am forever indebted to DigitalOcean for creating a super easy platform for someone who has no clue about VPS starting out. I know how to operate a linux machine but not the slightest idea about how to host a website myself until I came across DigitalOcean and their LAMP/LEMP tutorials. Once I was comfortable with DigitalOcean, I tried laun…

I'm glad I'm not the only software engineer that can't figure out how to use AWS.

So far, DigitalOcean does everything that I need. I hope they can maintain this great developer experience.

Re: DigitalOcean launches its container service

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Post by subbu »

StudentStuff wrote: post #190
geerlingguy wrote: post #182

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That and as a user of 12 different LowEndBox-style providers, DigitalOcean is only marginally more expensive, with way less downtime, faster support response, an easy to use API, integrations with everything, and even planned maintenance windows which are clearly communicated. Most of the lower priced options are run on a more shoestring budget and get uptime measured in the 98s. Also, I find a lot more noisy neighbo…

Perhaps OVH is worth a gander, I find it strikes a good balance between DO's pricing and the LowEndTalk providers, yet the uptime is still impressive. https://www.ovh.com/world/vps/vps-ssd.xml

I am a long time user of OVH. I don't care about fancy UI; I have hardly used it to get anything done except pay bills. I just wish they open a data center in India. That's the reason I was looking at DO; they have a DC in Bangalore.

Re: DigitalOcean launches its container service

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Post by cabraca »

pbowyer wrote: post #199

Is Kubernetes now accepted as a way to deploy reproducible single servers, or is it for projects at scale? I've worked on the assumption it's for clusters (10+) but if DO now support it - an alternative to puppet/ansible?

with the complete control plane managed by DO it gets more appealing for projects with smaller scale.

personally, for single servers i still use just plain docker or docker-compose.

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