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Re: DigitalOcean S-1

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Post by cube00 »

covidthrow wrote: post #84
cube00 wrote: post #40

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.

They have "floating IP addresses" as droplet-agnostic IPs for exactly this purpose.

A floating IP address couldn't be used in my case because I needed a reverse DNS entry and "Floating IPs do not support PTR (rDNS) records."

Along with other limitations such as "we do not support IPv6 floating IPs. All floating IPs are IPv4" and "floating IPs do not support SMTP traffic"

https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/networking/floating-ips/

Re: DigitalOcean S-1

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Post by cube00 »

dubcanada wrote: post #72
cube00 wrote: post #40

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.

You lost me there, their CentOS products are in a separate area then the rest of the OS's? Couldn't you just reformat with what ever OS you want?

"You can use any image in your account that runs an OS that is in the same family as the Droplet you're rebuilding"

https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/droplets/how-to/rebuild/

I thought support could help me out given the CentOS situation and it being a special case but they weren't even aware of what was happening or that users would need to move off despite my explanation in the ticket. Hopefully it's better now it's more widely known.

Re: DigitalOcean S-1

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Post by sdfhbdf »

staticautomatic wrote: post #33
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.

Yep great SEO Strategy and raising Brand awarness. Win-win for people searching. Find out about how to install nginx on Ubuntu and then memorize that next time you need a VM you go that blue website with great tutorials.

Re: DigitalOcean S-1

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Post by heliodor »

Thaxll wrote: post #92
gizmo wrote: post #9

Excellent growth, fair margins. Probably worth about $3bn. If it IPOs at less than $5bn it's probably worth picking up. Long term digitalocean will struggle to maintain its margins when competing with Azure and AWS on one side, and Cloudflare edge computing on the other side, so I don't think it can command the same kind of premium we've seen from other tech IPOs. A big red flag is that 570,000 customers bring in onl…

Because DO is not used in enterprise, there is no reasons to use DO at work when you can use all other cloud providers.

Read through the comments. There are plenty of them stating what they love about DO.

Re: DigitalOcean S-1

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Post by erwinh »

been a fan of DigitalOcean for years. Somehow they were able to bring a focus on usability to cloud offerings like no other provider could.

Most recent thing that made my life 100x easier is their Apps platform with direct Github integrations for deployment of react apps removing any need to learn CI/CD stuff which I dont want to waste time on in early alpha startup phase :)

Re: DigitalOcean S-1

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Post by stanmancan »

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.

Simplicity. As a solo dev I find AWS and GCP to be a nightmare. I do t have time to learn either interface, and not doing so is dangerous as not knowing the inner workings can have security or reliability consequences. Just look at all the exposed S3 buckets over the years.

Just picking a VPS from Amazon is an absolute nightmare. All the different levels, with the credit bullshit.

DO I can log in, pick a VPS with the specs I need and be done with it. I don’t need to worry about over using it and running out of credits and being throttled and having that to troubleshoot.

DO has been reliable for me, affordable, and incredibly easy to understand and use.

Re: DigitalOcean S-1

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Post by ivraatiems »

I might have mentioned this before, but DigitalOcean's support is (or was, before I stopped being their customer) absolutely abysmal.

I had a default card set up for auto billing. That card expired. I went to remove the default card -- you cannot remove a default card. Okay. I added a new card and tried to set it as default. It didn't take. (Refreshing the browser reverted the change.)

So I tried another browser, another computer, etc. The change never took. Finally, I contacted their support. It took a ton of back and forth with people who had dubious language comprehension before I finally convinced them anything other than user error was going on... but then, instead of fixing it, they demanded I take a video and upload it for them to prove it was real!

I did, and I paid the invoice manually. The bug was eventually fixed after a month or two, but it was a pain until that happened.

I found another provider who is cheaper for the resources I need and has better customer service by miles. If I can't get you to even take my money in an easy and reliable way, I can't trust you to operate anything I rely on.

Re: DigitalOcean S-1

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Post by oliverjudge »

ivraatiems wrote: post #128

I might have mentioned this before, but DigitalOcean's support is (or was, before I stopped being their customer) absolutely abysmal. I had a default card set up for auto billing. That card expired. I went to remove the default card -- you cannot remove a default card. Okay. I added a new card and tried to set it as default. It didn't take. (Refreshing the browser reverted the change.) So I tried another browser, ano…

Out of curiosity where did you move to?

Re: DigitalOcean S-1

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Post by paws »

stephenSinniah wrote: post #109

From the risk factors summary: Implications of Being an Emerging Growth Company We are an “emerging growth company” as defined in the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012, or the JOBS Act. We may take advantage of certain exemptions from various public company reporting requirements, including not being required to have our internal controls over financial reporting audited by our independent registered public…

Huh, that's a bit surprising. Can anyone point to examples of what kinds of disclosure obligations are reduced? e.g. liquidation multipliers?
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