what's their IPO valuation?
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DigitalOcean S-1
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#192I 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.
Couldn't agree more. I wanted to setup nginx and add users in the sudo group and almost always their articles were the first to appear.
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#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
Read through the comments. There are plenty of them stating what they love about DO.
I don't see why you would use DO it's vastly inferior to every cloud provider, the only reason people use DO is for the price, it's cheap compare to AWS, Google or Azure.
For some workloads, it's also much faster for similar money.
I looked into migrating my app to Azure, to get similar performance to what I have in DO was over 3x the monthly cost. Worked with Azure support to benchmark and try and come up with a plan to migrate, and the support rep ended by saying essentially "don't think we can get close to your current performance for near that price".
It's not cut and dry.
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#194Anyone else find it interesting that their revenue graph only starts in 2017? At what I’d assume to be a pretty low number given how long they’ve been around and how explosive the VM world has grown? Seems like if they hadn’t taken all that VC capital there’s no way they could have afforded any of their growth.
It worried me that they’re only at a couple hundred MM in a self-proclaimed 116B+ opportunity after 10 years.
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#195I 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.
I'm sure their own documentation is good, but certainly early on the tutorials always seemed to be a mess. Lots of similar articles written by different people with different structures and advice, without referencing other related tutorials. There seemed to be very little in the way of editorial control, but maybe that's better now. It was a good, cheap content strategy for SEO, but not a genuinely good resource.
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#196Earlier quoted context omitted.
The missing feature for me is more cache control. It's behind cloudflare but not configurable. So you can't cache json for instance
For me, the missing feature is ability to access private networks. (Noting here, for the DO product manager reviewing the thread..!)
Can you elaborate on this? Just wondering what you mean because I have been using private networks and haven't really run into many issues.
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#197They 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.
droplets are cattle, not pets.
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#198I 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. Their IPv6 support is pants on head.
https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/networking/ipv6/
Yes, you read that right, they assign a /124 if you enable IPv6. There is no provision for getting anything larger. All configuration is totally static as well. It's really incredible how botched the setup is, and it has been like this for years.
If you're wondering if you're sharing the same /64 with an entire datacenter worth of droplets, the answer is of course.
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#199Earlier quoted context omitted.
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'…
> runs an OS that is in the same family as the Droplet you're rebuilding
This line in the documentation might be misleading. Unless you have a very old legacy droplet that uses HV-assigned kernels, you should be able to reimage your droplet and use another OS.
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#200Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wow - really? I use both Linode and DO extensively and Linode is better on almost all fronts in my experience. Faster servers, better network, Linode's Object Storage is way better than DO's "spaces" and Linode's support is hands down the better of the two. If you're going to spend $5 on a server why would you go with DO unless you're already there?
> If you're going to spend $5 on a server why would you go with DO unless you're already there? I would go with anyone other than Linode, considering they left the control plane running a publicly accessible unpatched version of ColdFusion, which led to multiple instances of them losing control of customer's data. Anyone but Linode.
Yeah I know about that incident - but also believe companies have the ability to learn from past mistakes and do better.