Why the “Digital Ocean killed my company” incident scares the hell out of me

Post by Operyl » Sat, Jun 08, 2019, 11:41 AM UTC

jwr wrote: post #22

freehunter wrote: post #12

I've had a DO mistake take down my site before, and when it was brought back up it had been reverted to several months prior. DO support was at a loss as to why this would have happened. I tried to restore from DO's backup service, but their backups had apparently stopped running several months prior as well. This was a major issue and could have easily been the death of my company, all because of a DO glitch. But it…

> But I still do business with DO because it costs ~half the price of a comparable EC2 instance I'm curious why people who don't have massive scaling and variability issues choose DO or AWS for their hosting. For 34€/month, Hetzner will rent you a physical server (i7-6700, 64GB RAM, 2x512GB SSD, 1Gbit/s networking). That's a monster of a machine and can run most sites out there. And if you need more oomph and better…

Post by egorfine » Sat, Jun 08, 2019, 6:07 PM UTC

Post by phonon » Sat, Jun 08, 2019, 8:44 PM UTC

metildaa wrote: post #157

phonon wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are they? They come out fairly comparably here. I think Lightsail is a T3 instance "under the hood". https://joshtronic.com/2019/06/03/vps-showdown-digitalocean-...

Notice the memory and file I/O, huge gulfs in performance. The focus of my comment though was about Amazon's restrictive leaky bucket CPU allocation scheme, you can burn through your allocation of high cpu use and then get throttled to 5% of peak use iirc for hours while this bucket refills. DO lets you use much more CPU comparatively.