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I've been a loyal digital ocean customer for years, I switched away from Linode way back when (for reasons I don't even remember.) I'm extremely happy with the DO service, so here's to hoping they don't screw it all up!!
yeah it's because Linode was more expensive and it had some security incidents
What's the DigitalOcean of Europe, where I can get API-based provisioning for VPSes?
When Colorado passed the wage disclosure law and Digital Ocean decided not to hire in Colorado anymore despite being founded in Colorado is when I decided to never use them. I dont care if they eventually started hiring people in Colorado again.
I love DigitalOcean to the point where I actually applied for a job there[0]. The UI is leagues better than AWS and there are really useful API endpoints to control common things. I've been a paying customer for something like 12 years and I've never had an issue. [0] They never got back to me, sadly.
I love DigitalOcean to the point where I actually applied for a job there[0]. The UI is leagues better than AWS and there are really useful API endpoints to control common things. I've been a paying customer for something like 12 years and I've never had an issue. [0] They never got back to me, sadly.
The UI is simpler because the product is simpler. If all you want is 1-2 VMs in the cloud and to not think about the rest, its great. For any actual business that's moved from 'hobby'/'seed' phase, its not the right platform.
I hope they don't bet too much on AI, but I do think they deserve to grow more as a cloud provider, they need to focus strongly on following up on people's complaints about their existing services. I have seen many threads of people with complaints about their S3 compatible storage being very limited in its design, and potentially wildly insecure. If they are serous enough to be asking for roughly a billion dollars,…
I hope they don't bet too much on AI Based on DO's monthly newsletters, all it cares about anymore is AI. I don't think its written a single bullet point in two years that wasn't about AI. It's as if some wave of amnesia came over DO and it forgot it has thousands of existing customers who are not AI wantrapreneurs.
I'm subscribed to the DO newsletter; let me skim the archive. What they introduced in the last couple of years was: per-second billing, various identity providers for their SSO, managed Postgres upgrades, storage autoscaling, a NAT gateway, "bring your ow IP", etc. Yes, they do actively build out their GPU offerings, and access to open-weight models, but it's by far not the only thing.
When Colorado passed the wage disclosure law and Digital Ocean decided not to hire in Colorado anymore despite being founded in Colorado is when I decided to never use them. I dont care if they eventually started hiring people in Colorado again.
I feel that even if you're not required to post it, the fact that you don't post it means you're underpaying.
That early access privilege, economies of scale, and access to cash flow or capital paints a somewhat dire picture for DO even ignoring "AI", although the AI boom has made physical infrastructure much more difficult to do at scale if you aren't already doing physical infra at scale.
When Colorado passed the wage disclosure law and Digital Ocean decided not to hire in Colorado anymore despite being founded in Colorado is when I decided to never use them. I dont care if they eventually started hiring people in Colorado again.
It looks like they paused hiring for some number of weeks after the law was passed, probably because someone forgot to update the job listings and run interference on the salaries.
That's what you're upset about?
[0]https://www.businessinsider.com/digitalocean-pauses-hiring-i...
I've been a loyal digital ocean customer for years, I switched away from Linode way back when (for reasons I don't even remember.) I'm extremely happy with the DO service, so here's to hoping they don't screw it all up!!