DigitalOcean launches its container service • Hacker News Board

Re: DigitalOcean launches its container service

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Post by marmot777 » Wed, Dec 12, 2018, 6:01 PM UTC

Zelphyr wrote: post #74

marmot777 wrote: post #69

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.

Since I already had experience with Linux, the first time I used Digital Ocean, it worked intuitively the way thought it should. And I think DO's documentation is some of the best. They seem to take documentation very seriously, which is important when it's late at night and you're trying to figure out how to do something.

Re: DigitalOcean launches its container service

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Post by marmot777 » Wed, Dec 12, 2018, 6:15 PM UTC

speedster217 wrote: post #136

bphogan wrote: post #125

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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.

Just want to add on to this. Whenever I'm looking up a piece of software and I find a Digital Ocean tutorial on it, I know I'm in good hands. Have yet to find a tutorial that wasn't great!

Amen. DO gets it when it comes to docs.

Re: DigitalOcean launches its container service

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Post by marmot777 » Wed, Dec 12, 2018, 6:16 PM UTC

bphogan wrote: post #125

fermienrico wrote: post #105

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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.

Keep up the good work!

Re: DigitalOcean launches its container service

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Post by 1996 » Wed, Dec 12, 2018, 7:23 PM UTC

subbu wrote: post #198

StudentStuff wrote: post #190

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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

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.

1000x time this. OVH only has a bad datacenter in Singapore. I tried and left.

OVHs need to be in India and East Asia to interest me again.

Re: DigitalOcean launches its container service

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Post by Drdrdrq » Wed, Dec 12, 2018, 7:43 PM UTC

rolleiflex wrote: post #186

amichal wrote: post #170

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AWS also has a initial soft limit on EC2 instances. I dont remember what it is but its <100

Yeah, I’m sure they have — It’s just that AWS’ limits are a lot more compatible with a startup (vs an indie developer) than DigitalOcean’s.

FWIW, I find AWS limits confusing and seemingly random. Also, the fact that you can't limit total spending is _very_ unfriendly to (at least indie, as you point out) developers. I have no experience with DO though, maybe that will change with this offering.

Re: DigitalOcean launches its container service

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Post by Drdrdrq » Wed, Dec 12, 2018, 8:07 PM UTC

arendtio wrote: post #221

I am kinda confused... On the one hand, most people here seem to be fans of the DO services and praise their simplicity, on the other hand, I see their page an wonder what they are offering... The names of their services seem to be equally confusing as the AWS names. Yes, overall their portfolio is closer to the actual use-cases (as in 'I want to have a blog' -> they have an offer for that), but I am still wondering…

When you say "Hetzner Cloud", what exactly do you mean? I have checked their marketing pages and they only seem to offer IaaS - is this correct?

Re: DigitalOcean launches its container service

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Post by tom169 » Wed, Dec 12, 2018, 8:45 PM UTC

bphogan wrote: post #125

fermienrico wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Thank you. The tutorials have been very valuable over the years.

Re: DigitalOcean launches its container service

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Post by StudentStuff » Wed, Dec 12, 2018, 10:46 PM UTC

1996 wrote: post #234

subbu wrote: post #198

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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.

1000x time this. OVH only has a bad datacenter in Singapore. I tried and left. OVHs need to be in India and East Asia to interest me again.

Bandwidth and power are too expensive in most of Asia, OVH's business model is founded on building DCs next to cheap, plentiful power, then peering at the surrounding IXes for bandwidth. Most of the local IXes in Asia do not have local incumbent carriers participating, and those incumbents want hellish rates to peer.

Routing in Asia will remain crappy due to these peering problems, and volume wholesalers will be few and far between so long as power is spendy.

Re: DigitalOcean launches its container service

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Post by feross » Thu, Dec 13, 2018, 3:23 AM UTC

nsgf wrote: post #36

barbecue_sauce wrote: post #30

Meanwhile, Linode fails to innovate.

Well, Linode fails at basic security, so...

Like how Digital Ocean failed at scrubbing disks before giving them to new customers, revealing private data?

https://blog.digitalocean.com/transparency-regarding-data-se...

Re: DigitalOcean launches its container service

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Post by h1d » Thu, Dec 13, 2018, 3:28 AM UTC

wayoverthecloud wrote: post #156

I hear great things about DO and I really want to try it out but DO doesn't accept payment from our country. The same $5 droplet costs $25 here. I really hope you guys expand to the developing countries.

Waiting on Japan region. Most major ones have presence in Japan.