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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 robogrowth »

cscurmudgeon wrote: post #127
fuzzix wrote: post #75

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

Things like this want me to give up programming and take up farming.

why not do both? I program, and have a small self sustaining micro farm. Just placed my order for 28 spring chickens, and 3 turkey's which will provide most of the meat for my family throughout the winter. I will supliment with fish and meat that I catch or hunt down.

I also have a vegitable garden which we can most of our food from or preserve in other ways. :)

If I want a chicken that tastes just as good as the ones I raise I have to shell out $20+ for a 6lb whole chicken.. Crazy.. I get it for about $1/lb.

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

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Post by hiphopyo »

dmix wrote: post #61
bananas wrote: post #23

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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…

I'm amazed noone ever mentions GRSecurity as must have. It will reduce the risks of an actual comprise significantly. Non-patched Linux is always full of rootkit potential.

Some more regarding GRSecurity:

https://mail-archive.com/misc@openbsd.org/msg127100.html

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

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Post by cscurmudgeon »

robogrowth wrote: post #141
cscurmudgeon wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Things like this want me to give up programming and take up farming.

why not do both? I program, and have a small self sustaining micro farm. Just placed my order for 28 spring chickens, and 3 turkey's which will provide most of the meat for my family throughout the winter. I will supliment with fish and meat that I catch or hunt down. I also have a vegitable garden which we can most of our food from or preserve in other ways. :) If I want a chicken that tastes just as good as the one…

I envy you. :)

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

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Post by cdelsolar »

arca_vorago wrote: post #22

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, bu…

I just make a "Skeleton" instance that has all the hardening stuff already on it, then clone all my new machines off of this instance.

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

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Post by aalpbalkan »

Classic TC title "to Take on AWS"... Don't make me laugh buddy. AWS is probably more than 1,000+ people operation with 30 different products and a marketplace, support and ops teams. DigitalOcean is purely a VM seller with no cloud or storage features.

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

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Post by bananas »

verelo wrote: post #135
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…

Call me crazy, but do you think filling these issues are probably part of why they're raising funding? Getting ahead takes capital and i'm sure they're aware of what makes them inferior, you can't raise $37m without a good story on how you're going to use it to get ahead and win.

No because hosts on 1/10th of the budget are doing these things already.

I have great hope for http://bigv.io but they're not quite there yet.

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Post by mverwijs »

OWaz wrote: post #84
jnsaff2 wrote: post #64

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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.

The most I know about securing a Linux vps I picked up from this: http://feross.org/how-to-setup-your-linode/ . If there is an ultimate resource on how to start securing a *nix vps then please do let me know. If I knew what to search for I could but a lot of this is unknown unknowns to me.

After having fixed a sudo user (and confirm it works!), please also disable PermitRootLogin by setting it to 'no'.

Restart ssh after editing sshd_conf.

If you're squeemish, run dropbear on another port so you can log into your machine in case you made a boo-boo configuring openssh.

Also, more resources for security settings:

https://benchmarks.cisecurity.org/downloads/multiform/index....

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Post by jebblue »

oinksoft wrote: post #122
bad_user wrote: post #120

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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...

Why would you use that over iptables? It's simple and doesn't require installing a package. > There is a lot of functionality built into these > utilities, iptables being the most popular nowadays, but > they require a decent effort on behalf of the user to > learn and understand them. Is that a corner worth cutting?

ufw is just a simple wrapper for iptables, it still uses iptables.

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Post by TheSwordsman »

exratione wrote: post #139
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…

Yes, they have issues with IPs having been blacklisted. I ran into that in connection with MIPSpace. Large swathes of DO IPs are blacklisted by MIPSpace, which impacts my deliverability for a small double opt-in hobby list. - Digital Ocean says they can't get MIPSpace to remove IPs. - MIPSpace will only deal with me if I can get DO to add rwhois/SWIP for my IP - Digital Ocean doesn't offer that feature (of course). S…

MIPSpace is stupid if they think you can get SWIP from DO. This is not DO's policy, but the RIR. I seem to remember that for ARIN you need a /30 or larger of consecutive IP address space to qualify for SWIP. This may even be a /28.

So while DO is saying no, I'm wondering if it's because they don't offer the space required to SWIP the ranges. In addition to not offering the size, it would incur additional administrative overhead.

Can't blame them.

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

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Post by raamdev »

rschmitty wrote: post #89
hangonhn wrote: post #83

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

Seems very odd that both a "Googler" and a VPS provider would be naive enough to think that telling someone to delete a blog post "OR ELSE" would result in anything but the pasting of the content everywhere under the sun outside of google/DO's control to spread the word on how evil they were. I guess it could happen, but wow.. its like trying to get Beyonce derp face or whatever meme removed from the internet

It seems odd to me that DO never bothered to make any kind of statement to counter this guy's claims (at least not that I've seen), especially considering how well-known this story has become. That tells me that DO is either guilty or doesn't care enough about their reputation to even so much as publish a statement to help ease customers' (and potential customers) fears/worries. That's enough for me to stay away from them.
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