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DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M From Andreessen Horowitz to Take on AWS

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Re: DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M From Andreessen Horowitz to Take on AWS

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Post by adestefan »

bananas wrote: post #14

Adding to the commentary on here with something not so gushing: * kernels lag terribly behind the distributions meaning you're wide open sometimes. * can't resize or add storage * no freebsd support or custom kernels * VM availability problems. If you want to have another box, you aren't guaranteed to get one. * no IPv6 * somewhat shonky security reputation. * cant deliver to yahoo mail from their AMS2 IPs I've been…

It's also really hard to get an answer out of them for more than the simplest of questions.

Re: DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M From Andreessen Horowitz to Take on AWS

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Post by arca_vorago »

I've been using DO for about 5 months now, and love it. I still host my main websites other places (dreamhost, who, despite some issues, has been consistent in improvement, and is fair in prices), and I use DO for stuff like mumble servers, a few games, as a ssh proxy from less secure locations, and as some as a shared shell with friends for various skullduggery and fun. Very impressed with DO's service and price, but even more so ease of use.

My main issue is that I would like a hardening script, instead of having to go through each new one I spin up and lock it down.

Re: DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M From Andreessen Horowitz to Take on AWS

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Post by bananas »

hiphopyo wrote: post #16
bananas wrote: post #14

Adding to the commentary on here with something not so gushing: * kernels lag terribly behind the distributions meaning you're wide open sometimes. * can't resize or add storage * no freebsd support or custom kernels * VM availability problems. If you want to have another box, you aren't guaranteed to get one. * no IPv6 * somewhat shonky security reputation. * cant deliver to yahoo mail from their AMS2 IPs I've been…

My logs show increased break-in attempts after moving to Digital Ocean. Their IPs are hot targets for hackers, making it all the more important to properly secure my droplets, something I'm having a hard time doing in Linux. With Linux, it's lot of beating around the bush. Overcomplicated config files, a lot of disabling and removing of things one don't need, having to deal with a messy and outdated firewall. With Op…

Yeah noticed that as well. First thing I do is (on debian), update packages and the kernel, install ufw (allow only 22), fail2ban, postfix and logwatch. Then setup a non privileged user, sudo, turn of root ssh and password auth and move to key based auth.

Then I can sleep/configure the rest of the system.

Been meaning to package this all up in an ansible playbook but I can't be bothered :(

I'd be using FreeBSD if they offered it. Much like OpenBSD it's a lot more pleasant for sysadmins!

Re: DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M From Andreessen Horowitz to Take on AWS

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Post by bananas »

adestefan wrote: post #21
bananas wrote: post #14

Adding to the commentary on here with something not so gushing: * kernels lag terribly behind the distributions meaning you're wide open sometimes. * can't resize or add storage * no freebsd support or custom kernels * VM availability problems. If you want to have another box, you aren't guaranteed to get one. * no IPv6 * somewhat shonky security reputation. * cant deliver to yahoo mail from their AMS2 IPs I've been…

It's also really hard to get an answer out of them for more than the simplest of questions.

Using ALL CAPS on their IRC channel works quite well ;)

Re: DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M From Andreessen Horowitz to Take on AWS

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Post by hiphopyo »

bananas wrote: post #23
hiphopyo wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My logs show increased break-in attempts after moving to Digital Ocean. Their IPs are hot targets for hackers, making it all the more important to properly secure my droplets, something I'm having a hard time doing in Linux. With Linux, it's lot of beating around the bush. Overcomplicated config files, a lot of disabling and removing of things one don't need, having to deal with a messy and outdated firewall. With Op…

Yeah noticed that as well. First thing I do is (on debian), update packages and the kernel, install ufw (allow only 22), fail2ban, postfix and logwatch. Then setup a non privileged user, sudo, turn of root ssh and password auth and move to key based auth. Then I can sleep/configure the rest of the system. Been meaning to package this all up in an ansible playbook but I can't be bothered :( I'd be using FreeBSD if the…

Awesome, please do!

Don't forget https://github.com/kickstarter/rack-attack as well though.

Re: DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M From Andreessen Horowitz to Take on AWS

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Post by wil421 »

HorizonXP wrote: post #2

I really like these guys. It's really no-nonsense hosting, which as a developer, is exactly what I need. I've been (stupidly) running my website, VPN, and e-mail servers all on a single EC2 instance, mostly because I had a bunch of AWS credits. I got some Google Cloud credits, so decided to move it there. I then realized that I'm spending $60 a month on a single instance, which despite having "free" money, is stupid.…

Agreed, as a beginner I found the amount of configuration that is needed to set up an EC2 instance to be overwhelming. After seeing DO's interface and how easy it is to spin up an new droplet I was hooked.

Its been a really great and easy testbed where I can test out new things I am learning. Now I can get a VPS running linux serving up webpages with apache in about 20 min. Add in the great price and I have been hooked for over a year.

Re: DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M From Andreessen Horowitz to Take on AWS

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Post by zerop »

I use linode and was drawing comparisons between two: 1. 8 cores on linode is what binds me to it. Linode rules here 2. Digital ocean is cheaper than linode 3. More Network transfer in linode (minimum 2TB) 4. Digital ocean offers more RAM 5. Private network - Does not exist on Linode. Shame. DO Rules..

What else...

Re: DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M From Andreessen Horowitz to Take on AWS

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Post by 3pt14159 »

timdorr wrote: post #10

$37.2m on a $153m post? That's a pretty big chunk of the company to give up. Looks like A16Z is going big on these guys. They're awesome, so that's great news!

They wrote a blog post recently about how they are moving to more established companies.

Re: DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M From Andreessen Horowitz to Take on AWS

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Post by hiphopyo »

flavor8 wrote: post #19
hiphopyo wrote: post #6

Love DigitalOcean. Sorta sad they still don't offer OpenBSD though. OpenBSD -- the world's simplest and most secure Unix-like OS. Creator of the world's most used SSH implementation OpenSSH, the world's most elegant firewall PF, and the world's most elegant mail server OpenSMTPD. OpenBSD -- the cleanest kernel, the cleanest userland and the cleanest configuration syntax. https://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/1365…

Saw your OpenBSD spam yesterday too. Do you develop for the project?

Nope, I'm not on that level yet. Just voicing my love that's all.

Re: DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M From Andreessen Horowitz to Take on AWS

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Post by recmend »

We run our infrastructure on both AWS and DigitalOcean. 1) DO consistently beats the price performance. 2) DO has simple pricing model --> No ondemand / reserved instances 3) AWS is more feature rich but DO continues to add new functionalities like private networking and new data centers
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