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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 zerop »

kyrra wrote: post #46
zerop wrote: post #27

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) huh? DO added this in 2013[0], Linode has had it since 2008[1]. To add another. 6) Linode offers IPv6, while DO says it's coming "soon"[2] (and has been saying that for well over a year). [0] https://www.digitalocean.com/company/blog/introducing-privat... [1] https://blog.linode.com/2008/03/14/private-back-end-network-... [2] https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/is-ipv6-ava...

OK. What I meant was the concept of VPC in EC2, should have addressed it correctly :).

Basically following:

1. No public IP on each machine by default 2. Security settings managed through web UI and apply to linodes from UI.

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

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Post by 6cxs2hd6 »

lallysingh wrote: post #40

I'm a (moderately [1]) happy customer. But I have to ask, isn't this industry slowly turning into just virtualized hardware leasing? After the management tools commoditize, and I think there's a solid risk of that, isn't it just price and DC-location that differentiate? And in that vein, wouldn't the winner in each area just be the one who bought their hardware the most recently? Instructions/dollar are still increas…

> isn't this industry slowly turning into just virtualized hardware leasing? After the management tools commoditize, and I think there's a solid risk of that, isn't it just price and DC-location that differentiate?

Well, I don't think it's like aircraft or auto leasing. More like apartment or office leasing -- there's also a property management, maintenance, and operation dimension.

You're not just paying for hardware in a rack. You're paying for electricity, cooling, fire prevention, connectivity, and some level of uptime. i.e. You're paying for not having to worry about a bunch of stuff, so you can focus on your core business problems.

Even with standardized management software, at some point a human needs to go into a cage, or deal with the backhoe emergency. (OK, unless someday Amazon drones are deployed in data centers, instead of doing residential delivery. :))

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

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Post by [deleted] »

hangonhn wrote: post #83
fuzzix wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't write about the owner's golf buddies either. https://vpsexperience.wordpress.com/ An odd experience, I would say.

Can someone verify this story? It sounds pretty convincing with screenshots and all. If it's true I'm taking my business else where.

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Post by ChuckMcM »

fuzzix wrote: post #75
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.

That is an odd story, any idea who the author is? I find it hard to lend any sort of credence to an anonymous blog posting. Or did I miss some giant "this is who I am" link somewhere?

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

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Post by [deleted] »

dave_sullivan wrote: post #70
oijaf888 wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Double taxation isn't related to the salary you get paid but the dividends that a corporation pays out. A corporation pays taxes on income then when it pays it out as dividends you pay taxes on it again, hence double taxation. As far as I'm aware you are unable to deduct dividend payments from corporate income for the purposes of taxation. So no, its not FUD in that case at all.

Alright, I'll bite. You're right. But you're not going to avoid the stock market (where you might get paid in dividends) because you want to avoid double taxation. However, when forming a company for the first time, you'll hear double taxation cited as a reason you might not want to form a corporation. This is stupid because you're not going to pay yourself in dividends. Of course there are many reasons you might cho…

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

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Post by t0mas88 »

samwillis wrote: post #31

I would love to see DO or Linode do a S3 type service as well. I prefer the persistent virtualization of DO and Linode to EC2 but also want to use a nice quick persistent file store that isn't on my own slice. I could just use S3 from Linode but that would result more paid bandwidth and increased latency.

Rackspace Cloud has both persistent disks for VMs (on SSDs in RAID 10, so fast and reliable) and an S3 like storage system called Cloud Files. Sounds like that's the combination you want?

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

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Post by dmunoz »

Only tangentially related, but when did DigitalOcean redesign their website?

I think my initial dislike is due to it being changed, but there are tons of minor usability issues that I never noticed on their old website.

I'm happy to see a view for new articles in the tutorials database [0], but at the moment it doesn't make any sense. When I hit it just now, an article from 11 minutes ago is above an article from 1 minute ago. Not only that, an article on the 52nd page says "less than a minute ago". From clicking around, it seems like some process has touched every article recently and all those times, and how they are sorted, are meaningless. Also, at the moment the new and tending view gives the exact same outcome, at least for the first page.

[0] https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles

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

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Post by aroch »

rschmitty wrote: post #92
phaemon wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do: sudo ufw allow proto tcp from any to any port 22 sudo ufw enable Then you can just edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config the same as you would on OpenBSD.

This is why I love having a static IP. sudo ufw allow from your.ip.addr to tcp port 22 Rest of the world doesnt know I have ssh up and if I'm ever in a hotel or something I can tunnel through my home or login to DO's panel and allow another ip

I have essentially a static IP (A 'dynamic' IP with a 6month lease that stays the same on renewal and follows my account regardless of where I live), but you're super fucked if for some reason your IP changes. I usually set it to the /24 I'm assigned from.

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

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Post by rschmitty »

aroch wrote: post #118
rschmitty wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is why I love having a static IP. sudo ufw allow from your.ip.addr to tcp port 22 Rest of the world doesnt know I have ssh up and if I'm ever in a hotel or something I can tunnel through my home or login to DO's panel and allow another ip

I have essentially a static IP (A 'dynamic' IP with a 6month lease that stays the same on renewal and follows my account regardless of where I live), but you're super fucked if for some reason your IP changes. I usually set it to the /24 I'm assigned from.

How are you screwed? You can always login to the console in the web admin and change it

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Post by bad_user »

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…

Just install ufw. It's very simple to configure the rules for a basic server. Here's how: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-setup...
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