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The Meteoric Rise of DigitalOcean

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Re: The Meteoric Rise of DigitalOcean

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Post by timdorr »

conesus wrote: post #4

NewsBlur is mentioned in the article, but I cannot overstate how positive my experience with DigitalOcean has been. I'm stressing their biggest machines and spinning up dozens of differently configured boxes and they've handled it swimmingly well. Between the price and the performance differences, I'm glad I switched. I also have a shadow site running in parallel on EC2, so I get to compare dollar for dollar. EC2 is…

How is their network performance in your experience? I think that's the only place I've found them deficient compared to EC2 or others.

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Post by isalmon »

jtchang wrote: post #10

I used digital ocean to setup a mirror test environment. How is their reliability? I noticed once or twice it I would lose connectivity. I have quite a few boxes on linode and thinking about switching over production infrastructure. EDIT --- And today damn linode decides to go down.

I lose connectivity all the time. Tried to contact their support, they could not do anything. One solution for me is just to use cron job and reboot the VM once the problem is detected.

Re: The Meteoric Rise of DigitalOcean

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Post by mdesq »

I moved everything I had at Linode over to DigitalOcean as well and performance has been excellent. I loved Linode's stability but their response to the recent security incident really pissed me off. On DigitalOcean, I have seen briefly the network issues mentioned by others, but things have been more stable the last month or so.

That said, one production server I work with on RackSpace was completely unavailable yesterday for nearly 5 hours, so paying more money doesn't necessarily give you better uptime. Just that one outage put DigitalOcean ahead in availability for my systems over the last 6 months.

Is there any reasonably simple framework for replicating across cloud providers?

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Post by conesus »

timdorr wrote: post #11
conesus wrote: post #4

NewsBlur is mentioned in the article, but I cannot overstate how positive my experience with DigitalOcean has been. I'm stressing their biggest machines and spinning up dozens of differently configured boxes and they've handled it swimmingly well. Between the price and the performance differences, I'm glad I switched. I also have a shadow site running in parallel on EC2, so I get to compare dollar for dollar. EC2 is…

How is their network performance in your experience? I think that's the only place I've found them deficient compared to EC2 or others.

Network performance is fine, network reliability is the one you need to watch out for. I'm still working on getting some automated script to detect longer than expected timeouts through HAProxy and then issue a VM reboot through DO's API. It happens often enough that if I experience intermittent downtime, I turn to HAProxy's stats before looking at my munin graphs. But these things will resolve and ease in time. Bleeding edge is well named.

Re: The Meteoric Rise of DigitalOcean

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Post by corford »

About 4 months ago I moved a mail server from a 2GB Linode instance (london) to a 4GB DO instance (amsterdam) and overall I've been very happy with them. No major outages, the cost saving is huge and I/O performance is great.

The only negative so far is network reliability. Every once in a while my monitoring stuff fails to establish a connection to the DO box. It's transient though and usually connectivity comes back within 2 to 5 minutes. The box is running a low traffic mail server so it hasn't been a big enough issue for me to worry about yet. Other than that, I'm a happy bunny.

Re: The Meteoric Rise of DigitalOcean

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Post by JesseObrien »

jonstjohn wrote: post #6

Recently tried out DigitalOcean for a couple of small projects and already noticed some network reliability issues. My droplet was un-accessible for a couple of hours (at least) yesterday. Fortunately, it was for a non-production project and they were able to restore it within about a 1/2 hour. Verdict is still out for me, although I suspect that reliability will improve with time. I'm keeping production at Linode.

I noticed the same thing when I initially switched. I actually had them lose the box I was on, and the backups associated with it. They apologized and indicated it was an issue at the datacenter that they didn't have much control over. They gave me a really nice bit of credit on my account and I've since had no problems. I'm a fan of the pricing as well as their support.
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