Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

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

techcrunch.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

71–80 of 299 posts

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

#71

Post by bmelton »

jcampbell1 wrote: post #48
dave_sullivan wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's true in the same way that double taxation is a concern when setting up a corporation. It kind of is, but it's really not. Due to downvotes, I guess I better explain what I mean: Basically, EC2 provides instances where "if you restart your server you lose your data". You don't use those when that would be a problem for you, you use EBS backed instances which do not have this problem. Or you do it some other way…

I don't get the analogy. With EC2 you either lose your data when rebooting, or you have to use network storage (iSCSI) which has advantages and disadvantages. BTW, when I invest in a corporation, I do get double taxed. The profits are taxed at the highest possible income tax rate, then I pay 15% tax on the distribution of profits. Of course if I work for that corporation, I opt to take the "profits" as a bonus. I pay…

But there are a myriad of scenarios where booting to a AWS image, effectively a CD, is preferred. Having a non-writable filesystem is cool, where that non-writability allows for the saving of temp files and such, but if it were ever compromised, I would just reboot it, and it's exactly how it used to be. Even smarter, I would boot up another clean instance and take that one down, then remap the elastic IP to cut over.

For data that must be stored, I can use a EBS, or a database instance.

Like the grand-parent said, you pick what makes sense. Saying that ephemeral storage is a bad thing would be true if that were all they offered, but it isn't, and it ephemeral images are sometimes preferred.

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

#72

Post by iamtew »

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…

Moving your SSH server away from port 22 and disabling password logins is also something you should consider doing.

Small thing but at least then it doesn't shout "Hey I'm a *nix box with remote login enabled"

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

#73

Post by nikhilalmeida »

jnsaff2 wrote: post #64
bananas wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

It took me about an hour to put all of this into an ansible playbook. I think there are couple of examples out on blogs about this as well. If there is interest I'll share my playbook. Writing this playbook paid off already for the second installation of the box.

Please do.

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

#74

Post by instakill »

I've been using DO for about a year, and I've been mostly happy with it but that's because the project I run http://www.mybema.com doesn't receive as much traffic or active users as I'd like it to. DO has gone down far too many times in the last year for me to be able to be completely confident in them with a 100x userbase.

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

#75

Post by fuzzix »

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…

Don't write about the owner's golf buddies either.

https://vpsexperience.wordpress.com/

An odd experience, I would say.

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

#78

Post by icebraining »

bmelton wrote: post #69
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…

Their DMCA / Copyright / bad content process is horribly, horribly broken, and they will generally (where I think generally is the most polite way to put it) take the side of the accuser, even if that accuser is anonymous, or random, or fraudulently making the accusation.

How do you suggest that they would proceed, considering that the DMCA forces them to "expeditiously remove or disable access to the allegedly infringing material", on the contingent of being liable themselves for copyright infringement?

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

#79

Post by isalmon »

raiyu wrote: post #62
joe_bleau wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I too have been bit by the droplet limit. $60 credit (but no credit card) in my account, wanted to spin up a fast box to build a kernel, but I was locked out of the larger droplets. Never did get a straight answer as to why, just a suggestion to link a credit card. Oh well.

There are two droplet limits, one is the number of droplets that you can spin up which you can see in your settings page: https://cloud.digitalocean.com/settings The second is if a customer signs up using Paypal we restrict some of the larger sizes, this is done to minimize the amount of fraud we have to deal with. Unfortunately we deal with a high amount of abusive and fraudulent signups so we've had to instate a lo…

I'm paying with my credit card and larger sizes are disabled for me (NY1 location).

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

#80

Post by bmelton »

icebraining wrote: post #78
bmelton wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Their DMCA / Copyright / bad content process is horribly, horribly broken, and they will generally (where I think generally is the most polite way to put it) take the side of the accuser, even if that accuser is anonymous, or random, or fraudulently making the accusation.

How do you suggest that they would proceed, considering that the DMCA forces them to "expeditiously remove or disable access to the allegedly infringing material", on the contingent of being liable themselves for copyright infringement?

The DMCA prescribes a dispute policy, that allows the accused to refute the evidence provided by the accusers.

I've seen numerous complaints indicating that Digital Ocean abides no such policies.

http://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digitalocean...

Post reply on HN