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Re: DigitalOcean S-1

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Post by dannyw »

frakkingcylons wrote: post #381
ivraatiems wrote: post #255

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I moved to BuyVM, https://buyvm.net/ . I had already been using their services for a few years, I just expanded on what I already had. They are not as large an enterprise as DigitalOcean, by a long shot, but the upside of that is you can speak with the owner and his small staff personally and get personal service. They made me a very good deal. I also know from their Discord that they have some conservative political…

It blows my mind that people will hang out in a Discord for a VPS provider and express their political opinions. Communities form around anything nowadays.

BuyVM is more or less a free speech host: if it's legal, they'll (usually) host it.

It's my view that we need this on the internet.

Re: DigitalOcean S-1

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Post by dannyw »

voltagex_ wrote: post #344
ivraatiems wrote: post #255

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I moved to BuyVM, https://buyvm.net/ . I had already been using their services for a few years, I just expanded on what I already had. They are not as large an enterprise as DigitalOcean, by a long shot, but the upside of that is you can speak with the owner and his small staff personally and get personal service. They made me a very good deal. I also know from their Discord that they have some conservative political…

BuyVM's wiki has things in it like https://wiki.buyvm.net/doku.php/kvm#pagefileswap_disclaimer , which, without any numbers behind it would make me extremely uneasy to use the service. Other cheap hosts just put hard IO limits at the VM host level.

BuyVM is a team run by humans who do care about every customer. As long as you're doing something malicious-y (like crypto mining, exploit testing random websites, distributing malware or a phishing site, etc), they will work with you.

Re: DigitalOcean S-1

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Post by frakkingcylons »

dannyw wrote: post #391
frakkingcylons wrote: post #381

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It blows my mind that people will hang out in a Discord for a VPS provider and express their political opinions. Communities form around anything nowadays.

BuyVM is more or less a free speech host: if it's legal, they'll (usually) host it. It's my view that we need this on the internet.

I'm not for or against BuyVM. I'm just surprised that nowadays people will hang out in a VPS provider's Discord. Like if Wawa had a Discord and people decided to hang out there. I just don't get it.

Re: DigitalOcean S-1

#394

Post by Sebguer »

dartf wrote: post #134

I really want to love DO, but I just can't. 2 main pain points I had from working with it for ~3 month: 1. Spaces keys. There is no way to fine tune access rights. Anyone with spaces key can access any space in the organization and read/write to it. I trust people I work with, but there is always room for a mistake, so even a small chance that someone can accidentally nuke our production space makes me nervous. 2. So…

Completely unrelated to DO, but for 2, yes? You should absolutely do something like that if an app needs to be accessible worldwide. There are many reasons an app might become unavailable for different parts of the world, especially if you're reliant on a CDN since POPs can fail or become unavailable in weird and silent ways. Something like Thousandeyes is good for this.

Re: DigitalOcean S-1

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Post by Sebguer »

jtdev wrote: post #105

I was really considering moving from AWS to DO until I noticed this: https://www.digitalocean.com/company/contact/#abuse So anyone who's offended by content you might host on DO can report your site and some identity politics obsessed bureauocrat decides if you're cancelled or not...? The public cloud has turned into an Orwellian nightmare.

Are you mad about abuse@ emails on Whois lookups, too?

Re: DigitalOcean S-1

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Post by SkyPuncher »

teeray wrote: post #388
jeffparsons wrote: post #321

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My employer deals with this by compensating candidates for their time. Y'know... with money. We also don't give them our actual problems as homework tasks. We'll occasionally talk about our real problems with candidates in interviews, but we're very clear about it when we do. It's not a perfect system. Some candidates will choose to spend longer on the task so that in the follow-up interview they'll have the opportun…

One downside is that to do this properly, you probably should be sending out 1099s for all of those candidates. Depending on the number of open reqs out there, your payroll department may be less than thrilled with this idea. I’ve seen some teams that have tried to sidestep this by paying in gift cards, but that sure does seem to be playing with fire.

You are not required to file a 1099 if the payment is less than $600. Even then, I can't imagine it's that hard to send out an additional 1099 if needed.

[0] https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...

Re: DigitalOcean S-1

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Post by tedk-42 »

Ansil849 wrote: post #305
kevinoconnor7 wrote: post #228

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I remember interviewing with DO back in late 2014 and it was nuts! The entire interview process took ~3 months and it was clear that they were defining the process as they went. The entire process was basically: 1. initial call with recruiter 2. homework project 3. call with engineer to discuss said homework project 4. two phone screens with engineers 5. onsite interview with 6 engineers Finally I had was at the fina…

Not to hijack this sub-thread, but just a general question: how does one deal with unethical 'homework projects'? I've had a case during an application where I was given a 'homework project' that seemed to me very much not like a theoretical scenario, but more like the company wanting me to do free work for an actual real-world issue they had. Have people had situations where you suspected the same? How do you deal w…

It's actually a good idea to pick a JIRA/project ticket from your backlog and see how the new engineer tries to solve the problem.

It's good because it will determine if they're a good fit for the team and gauge how much they have to offer.

Re: DigitalOcean S-1

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Post by ivraatiems »

frakkingcylons wrote: post #393
dannyw wrote: post #391

Earlier quoted context omitted.

BuyVM is more or less a free speech host: if it's legal, they'll (usually) host it. It's my view that we need this on the internet.

I'm not for or against BuyVM. I'm just surprised that nowadays people will hang out in a VPS provider's Discord. Like if Wawa had a Discord and people decided to hang out there. I just don't get it.

I think people would totally do that for Wawa. I know some people who are crazy into the whole Wawa vs Sheetz debate.

There's a whole community around "low-end" VPS and server hosting, and BuyVM's staff have historically been active figures in that community. The Discord is an offshoot of that. It's not all that unusual; a lot of companies do community outreach by running communities for people who do things related to their services. Digital Ocean themselves do this in another form with their documentation libraries.

BuyVM's brand relies on the perception that they are laid-back, pro-free-speech, friendly, and helpful. The Discord is a way of broadcasting that. Now, personally - I think that attracts some people I wouldn't prefer to attract. But I know they've drawn lines in the past (banning overtly anti-Semitic people, for instance), so, fair enough. Their pro-speech attitude helped me when a site I ran was subjected to bogus legal threats from an unhinged former user.

Re: DigitalOcean S-1

#399

Post by nerdbaggy »

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…

Had the same problem, and switched to Linode, much better support. They recently won some support award, not sure if it actually means anything https://www.linode.com/blog/linode/linode-wins-5-stevie-awar...

Re: DigitalOcean S-1

#400

Post by usr1106 »

Ansil849 wrote: post #305
kevinoconnor7 wrote: post #228

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I remember interviewing with DO back in late 2014 and it was nuts! The entire interview process took ~3 months and it was clear that they were defining the process as they went. The entire process was basically: 1. initial call with recruiter 2. homework project 3. call with engineer to discuss said homework project 4. two phone screens with engineers 5. onsite interview with 6 engineers Finally I had was at the fina…

Not to hijack this sub-thread, but just a general question: how does one deal with unethical 'homework projects'? I've had a case during an application where I was given a 'homework project' that seemed to me very much not like a theoretical scenario, but more like the company wanting me to do free work for an actual real-world issue they had. Have people had situations where you suspected the same? How do you deal w…

I had to solve a real world problem for my current employer in my assignment. However, when they usually say it takes 20% to make a nice demo and 80% to make a the demo production-ready, I'd say the distribution for my assignment was even more uneven. It's just a PoC, a toy, nothing that can really be used. I did not know the tools used, the coding style or anything when I coded the assignment.

I see nothing unethical in it.

3 years later the feature has still not made it to production. I hate that every time it would have made my working day easier :)

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