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Re: The Meteoric Rise of DigitalOcean

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Post by vacri »

snuxoll wrote: post #118
aragot wrote: post #117

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But DigitalOcean also puts their APIs forward. It made me feel like: Wow, it's nice to use and they're geeks! So how does DO's api compares to EC2?

They're a billion times saner, they have a very simple REST API that just takes a couple GET parameters and spits out nice JSON. I built a wrapper in scala using the dispatch http library and json4s in about 15 minutes, most of that was writing a couple functions to handle the difference between the formatting conventions used by DigitalOcean's JSON and scala/java standards ("droplet_id" vs "dropletId"). Meanwhile AW…

Ironically, your comment on the outdated SOAP API is based on knowledge that is quite outdated. AWS has had a REST API for basically the entire existence of DO.

Re: The Meteoric Rise of DigitalOcean

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Post by gaadd33 »

reqres wrote: post #135
vacri wrote: post #104

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I think you mean "DO gobbles up the fruit that fell from the AWS tree". Why on earth would AWS be particularly concerned that DO gets all the people who want to spend $5/server and have a handful of servers, when AWS get all the people with four-figure-plus spends? One $1000 spender is worth 20 people who rave over $5 boxes. And there are plenty of $1k spenders. AWS does have some cheap offerings - some micro instanc…

The logic you present is correct from the incumbent's perspective. But followed to its logical conclusion, it leads to the downfall of the incumbent according to Christensen's model of disruptive innovation. The incumbents will continually cater upmarket to their higher value customers while the challenger picks up more and more low value customers. But there's only so far upmarket you can go until you run out of cus…

Has that ever happened in the tech industry? It seems, following that logic, that Dell should have beat Apple long ago and be the dominate player in hardware as they have historically catered to the lowest value customers.

Re: The Meteoric Rise of DigitalOcean

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Post by buster »

Uhm.. yes.. So to read those numbers correctly:

"Amazon, Alibaba and Hetzner each get more NEW servers online in 6 months, then what DigitalOcean created in its entire lifetime".

It's all about the wording.. Not to downplay DigitalOceans achievement, though. But people should look at those statistics in another way...

Re: The Meteoric Rise of DigitalOcean

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Post by zubi »

ehPReth wrote: post #144
zubi wrote: post #79

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I share exactly the same feelings and experience with the person who replied to your comment previously. I have a server in each and I like them both. However; - Linode support is second to none. DO is not bad either but much slower and less responsive. You feel the difference when you really need it. - I had a CC payment issue with DO since the beginning. I mentioned it to the support twice but unsolved as of yet, u…

Is SNI ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication ) an option for you?

Well, mainly not, due to some of the target visitor groups using Win XP.

Re: The Meteoric Rise of DigitalOcean

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Post by porker »

singingcheese wrote: post #102
mgkimsal wrote: post #68

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heaven help you if you manage to start an instance that has n permanent storage then reboot it. apparently that's the default, and you need to (imo) go out of your way to get permanent storage. I understand the use case for the former, but the UI and docs for the latter use case were, last I looked, pretty difficult to grok. Yeah, AWS has some functionality/scaling features that DO and Linode don't , but it's a small…

Rebooting an EC2 instance never causes you to lose your data (no matter what type of storage you pick). EC2 has two types of storage: local disk "ephemeral/instance storage" and network storage "EBS". Digital Ocean only provides local disk. In EC2 you can mix and match, but EBS is the most convenient. If you do a stop and start on EC2 (very different to picking "reboot"). You will lose what's on local disk because st…

> If the hardware breaks on Digital Ocean or on EC2 if you only use ephemeral (local) storage you lose your data.

Is that really the case - neither are using a SAN or RAID or other backup method to ensure data is preserved in (almost) all circumstances? Not so bothered about EC2 (due to EBS) but for Digital Ocean..? Poor show if that's the case.

Re: The Meteoric Rise of DigitalOcean

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Post by recmend »

I have used AWS, DO, Linode.

If you don't need the advanced functionalities that are only available on AWS infrastructure, go with DO. DO beats the price performance compared to Linode while the API, documentation, and support are comparable.

Re: The Meteoric Rise of DigitalOcean

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Post by api »

eli wrote: post #180
api wrote: post #116

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Unfortunately not much yet, but you're helping make way for the future. I say unfortunately because IPv4's limitations are going to hurt more and more as the Internet gets more hosts online.

Sure, I get that. And I agree that the lack of IPv6 makes me a teensy bit nervous about how well DO is planning for the future... but seems like a weird reason to completely disqualify an otherwise acceptable provider

I'm sure they'll get it eventually, but it is annoying.

Re: The Meteoric Rise of DigitalOcean

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Post by KhalPanda »

ilaksh wrote: post #157
crazygringo wrote: post #11

To people wondering if this is a temporary thing, or what Digital Ocean's competitive advantage is (since someone else can come along with the same price point): It's that the web interface, and process for starting a "droplet", is dead-simple and super-elegant, their support docs are comprehensive and easy to use, and they even do things like let you manage your own DNS records. And it all just works. Digital Ocean…

LOL. So funny that people always say things like this, that the real reason is its simpler. Bullshit. The real reason is it is MUCH, MUCH cheaper. And it works. That's the reason I use it. I am an honest person though, so most people probably won't share the same viewpoint.

Cheaper than free? And "most people" are dishonest?

The real reason is (obviously) a combination of cost and simplicity.

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