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I'm happy to see DO get some attention. I hope this means that really good hosting services like DO can still thrive in the age of AWS. DO seems to be doing well.
I agree. I like that Digital Ocean takes their time to get a new product offering right. It shows. Especially when you compare it to AWS, which we're in the process of moving away from.
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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.
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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…
I made something similar and turned it into a service [1] focused on WordPress, but unfortunately there hasn't been much interest from people as I thought there would be, though that could be due to my lack of marketing. My goal was the same, to make hosting more portable with features like snapshotting and restoration of WP sites across servers and to even eventually expand beyond just servers, to bring in domain re…
Been a user of DOs beta kubernetes service and it works well. Though I would say the title of the linked article is a bit misleading. It is a Kubernetes as a service, like EKS, GKE and AKS. But not vanilla container service a la ECS, Fargate, the former Docker Cloud, etc.
Curious - what are some good alternatives to Fargate? Enjoy the ease of use, but more expensive than I'd like for low-to-no traffic side projects
Zeit V1 supports launching containers (but isnt part of V2): https://zeit.co/docs/v1/getting-started/deployment/#docker-d...
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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…
Hi! I'm a member of the Community team at DigitalOcean. I wanted to thank you for your kind words about our tutorials. This kind of feedback means a lot to us. We're glad we could help you get your web site set up.
Off topic in terms of the article itself, but I just wanted to give some love to DO. We are very data and processing heavy startup, using DO for more than 2 years. We did not experience any issues, super easy to manage, great performance, and super important for us - predictable cost.
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…
Hmm, now all it needs is just a comprehensive tutorial for somebody who ignored the whole container fuss so far (happy with Ansible). How to get from 0 to 100 to use Kubernetes?
It's a hard nut to crack. What I've done myself is to jump into any book published about Kubernetes and to do some online training through a couple of different MooCs. This may be a good starting point: https://github.com/ramitsurana/awesome-kubernetes#books https://github.com/ramitsurana/awesome-kubernetes#interactiv...
I've seen this list before and it is super comprehensive. Thanks for linking it; I need more like this for my "extreme breadth of choices" slide, when I present to my coworkers who are not using k8s yet, to emphasize how many choices there actually are.
So now that's managed K8S, managed databases, load balancers, a cloud firewall that's partially VPC like, object storage and block storage. Curious what's next. Lambdas maybe?
We have a big roadmap for 2019. Queues are interesting and so are functions in general. Nothing to share today but those are items we are assessing for future roadmaps :)
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.
DO's prices are why I'm a fan.