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Re: DigitalOcean S-1

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Post by Kovah »

yannoninator wrote: post #5

What is the point of DigitalOcean, Linode etc, when one can use the more reliable big cloud providers GCP/AWS/Azure. I don't think DO's offerings are strong enough to compete with the big players long term, especially in production. Seems like an exit for a later acquisition by a bigger company, like Slack with Salesforce.

Easy setup and maintenance, and reliable pricing. Order a Unix server for $10 per month, 1TB traffic included, and you get a server with fixed hardware specs. If you get more customers, you scale the server and pay a higher price. On AWS and others: spin up a server that costs more in comparision to Digitalocean, and prepare to find costs on your bill you never thought you would have: traffic, permanent storage, logging,...

Re: DigitalOcean S-1

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Post by neom »

Interestingly it was very clear at around $10MM ARR that DO was on a trajectory to IPO. You can thank Moisey Uretsky for a fantastic product idea and his brother Ben for CEOing it for so long. Congratulations to everyone who was involved in building DigitalOcean, it was an INCREDIBLY wild ride in the early days, lots of chaos but through all the chaos and disfunction, I think everyone involved knew this day would come.

Personally I'm really proud of the work we did, and I'm overjoyed to have been part of building a business that is going to be a public company. Thanks to the HN community for being so supportive over the years.

Re: DigitalOcean S-1

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Post by staticautomatic »

halfmatthalfcat wrote: post #10

I love DigitalOcean. The simplicity of their UI, friendly CLI tooling and (as a hosted k8s customer) the frequency of updates to their offerings. BUT: 1. Their web UI stability is terrible (constantly hangs and errors out) 2. Their hosted DB IOPS aren't competitive with other PaaS providers. There's also no way to scale DB size dynamically without upgrading to a new price tier which is overkill. 3. Their Kubernetes C…

They also have some of the best technical documentation on the web.

Re: DigitalOcean S-1

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Post by brobdingnagians »

yannoninator wrote: post #5

What is the point of DigitalOcean, Linode etc, when one can use the more reliable big cloud providers GCP/AWS/Azure. I don't think DO's offerings are strong enough to compete with the big players long term, especially in production. Seems like an exit for a later acquisition by a bigger company, like Slack with Salesforce.

The point is that they aren't GCP/AWS/Azure. I don't want to give more money to Eric Schmidt, Bill Gates, or Jeff Bezos.

Also, GCP/AWS/Azure don't support OpenBSD. There are others who do. I just want a good dedicated server for a good price.

Re: DigitalOcean S-1

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Post by yannoninator »

BasedInfra wrote: post #13
yannoninator wrote: post #5

What is the point of DigitalOcean, Linode etc, when one can use the more reliable big cloud providers GCP/AWS/Azure. I don't think DO's offerings are strong enough to compete with the big players long term, especially in production. Seems like an exit for a later acquisition by a bigger company, like Slack with Salesforce.

The pie is big enough and also don’t think big cloud players and DO are after the same customers. 34% of the web still runs on Wordpress. A lot want somewhere cheap and easy to use with more power than shared hosting.

AWS LightSail is basically DigitalOcean with a huge jetpack with the ability to extend into AWS's ecosystem.

Re: DigitalOcean S-1

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Post by bithavoc »

halfmatthalfcat wrote: post #10

I love DigitalOcean. The simplicity of their UI, friendly CLI tooling and (as a hosted k8s customer) the frequency of updates to their offerings. BUT: 1. Their web UI stability is terrible (constantly hangs and errors out) 2. Their hosted DB IOPS aren't competitive with other PaaS providers. There's also no way to scale DB size dynamically without upgrading to a new price tier which is overkill. 3. Their Kubernetes C…

5. You can’t upload a custom image and assign a Floating IP to the Droplet, one of the most basic of the functionality of any cloud.

Re: DigitalOcean S-1

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Post by jakelazaroff »

yannoninator wrote: post #26
pmorici wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Simpler and less complex?

They currently have an incident with their droplets right now at the time of writing, hardly reliable.

Remember when an AWS outage a few months ago took down like half the Internet?

Re: DigitalOcean S-1

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Post by RKearney »

cashewchoo wrote: post #19
_ea1k wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It seems to me that these services are much more cost effective than AWS.

This. DO, imo, crushes AWS's pricing, documentation and ease of use for anyone but big enterprises. I used their managed k8s for a personal project as someone who's never used k8s before and it: * didn't cost more than the $10 droplet it ran on * just worked * super easy to operate * has had no issues so far If I were working for any kind of not-ridiculously-large business that wasn't connected to an endless funnel o…

How do you figure?

$10 DO Dropplet gets you 1 CPU, 2GB RAM, 50GB SSD, and 2TB of bandwidth.

$10 AWS Lifghtsail instance gets you 1 CPU, 2GB RAM, 60GB SSD, and 3 TB of transfer.

Re: DigitalOcean S-1

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Post by jwr »

yannoninator wrote: post #5

What is the point of DigitalOcean, Linode etc, when one can use the more reliable big cloud providers GCP/AWS/Azure. I don't think DO's offerings are strong enough to compete with the big players long term, especially in production. Seems like an exit for a later acquisition by a bigger company, like Slack with Salesforce.

I use DO because it's simple and easy. I got tired of dealing with AWS corporate-sized crap, all I want is to spin up several servers using terraform and get work done. They way you can automatically apply firewalling rules to server tags, for example, is exactly what I need.

And don't even mention Azure, where I feel like in a huge maze of mirrors. Nothing is simple, and you waste lots of time on clicking and figuring things out.

So yes, DO has very real value, and I'm glad they exist. The only roughly comparable provider I found was Vultr, which I like quite a bit, too.

Re: DigitalOcean S-1

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Post by cube00 »

They lost me after I couldn't switch from CentOS unless I also agreed to lose my IP address. Reached out to support and got the unhelpful reply of "use another OS version within the CentOS family" which didn't really help considering CentOS was charging its direction.
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