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Mark my words these guys are gonna be huge. Sure they are lacking in a lot of areas (like bananas mentions) but thats why you get VC funding and hire a badass like Jeff Lindsay ( http://progrium.com ) I'm really excited to see these dudes take on AWS with a higher-level and more performant platform.
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.
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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...
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.
(Full disclosure: My only relationship with Digital Ocean is having been offered a free month of hosting with them once. Never used it.)
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
Comparing DO to AWS is extremely disingenuous unless you're only comparing compute per $. Running in AWS, we get access to unlimited storage through S3, EBS volumes we can move between instances, a CDN, etc. Digital Ocean is like the place with a bunch of servers in the garage. Yes, its cheap. No, I would not trust it to run my business. I'm very interested to see how they think they can compete with AWS, considering…
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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…
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.
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Comparing DO to AWS is extremely disingenuous unless you're only comparing compute per $. Running in AWS, we get access to unlimited storage through S3, EBS volumes we can move between instances, a CDN, etc. Digital Ocean is like the place with a bunch of servers in the garage. Yes, its cheap. No, I would not trust it to run my business. I'm very interested to see how they think they can compete with AWS, considering…
You're right about EBS, however I kind of scratch my head over S3. Yeah, I guess it's integrated in the sense that you can access it from the same account, however, try creating an EC2 instance without a publicly addressable IP. You can't access S3 at all from your VPC, which makes S3 not usable in many use cases.
I don't see the problem with this. Either give your EC2 instance in your VPC a dedicated public IP and configure the security group to disallow all inbound connections, or use a public IP that routes all traffic for your VPC and again, secure it with a security group.
We do this right now with our environment, as our application is heavily EC2S3 dependent. It works without issue.
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...
> 5. Private network - Does not exist on Linode. Shame. What do you mean? Actually private network did not exist on DO until recently and it's been on Linode for a long time.
DigitalOcean are dishonest with their customers. It's sad to see such a reputable firm throw in with people known to be liars.