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Digital Ocean’s journey from TechStars reject to cloud-hosting darling
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Re: Digital Ocean’s journey from TechStars reject to cloud-hosting darling
#32DigitalOcean is not a cloud or anything that resembles what a "cloud" is. If you consider "cloud" hosting backup-enabled virtual private servers with multiple operating-system choices and multiple locations, well, hate to break it to you, but that's has been around since 2005. Everyone is hopping on DO because it's marketed as a "cloud" and it's part of a tech accelerator (and maybe because it has SSDs and is so damn…
>Everyone is hopping on DO because it's marketed as a "cloud" and it's part of a tech accelerator (and maybe because it has SSDs and is so damn cheap). Other than that, there's really nothing special about it.
The marketing is good. The quality of the product is good. It's incredibly easy to get started with. The tech accelerator I don't think plays any factor. I searched my database and there are 24 mentions of TechStars out of 3213 positive mentions. That's 0.7%, I can't imagine it has much impact right now on their growth. To give some other comps cheap is 115, affordable is 36, ssd is 133, fast is 174, amazing 212, easy is 134.
Source: http://reviewsignal.com/webhosting/company/101/digitalocean
Re: Digital Ocean’s journey from TechStars reject to cloud-hosting darling
#33DigitalOcean is not a cloud or anything that resembles what a "cloud" is. If you consider "cloud" hosting backup-enabled virtual private servers with multiple operating-system choices and multiple locations, well, hate to break it to you, but that's has been around since 2005. Everyone is hopping on DO because it's marketed as a "cloud" and it's part of a tech accelerator (and maybe because it has SSDs and is so damn…
The biggest reason DO took off has little to do with the reasons you cite. It's got to do with simplicity and hourly billing. AWS had the latter without former. Your typical VPS host has a bit of both but wont tell you launch 20 instances for a few hours for pennies.
Re: Digital Ocean’s journey from TechStars reject to cloud-hosting darling
#34Every day, working with customers' products or witnessing stories such as DO's I realise that success is 90% marketing and 10% actual technical stuff. You don't have to have the greatest features or too many of them or even all of them working as advertised. You don't need to take security very seriously (hello DO, WhatsApp!) or use buzz-stuff such as OpenStack (hello Rackspace, HPCloud!) or any existing "cloud stand…
I think you're kind of wrong here. DO's biggest thing for me is that it's incredibly easy to use while providing all the baseline features I actually need for casual hosting. I guess you could count this as 'marketing', but I think there's a strong technical element to knowing your market and how to make what they want to do as easy as possible. DNSimple occupies a very similar niche. In fact, part of the appeal may…
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Re: Digital Ocean’s journey from TechStars reject to cloud-hosting darling
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
> or use buzz-stuff such as OpenStack (hello Rackspace, HPCloud!) Maybe I misread the tone of this post or I'm fuzzy on the history, but it sounds like you're saying Rackspace is trying to be hip by jumping on the hype-train. My understanding is that Rackspace co-created [1] Openstack and let it out into the wild. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStack#History
What I meant is Rackspace (also RedHat, HP, Mirantis etc) would have you believe that if you're not running Openstack then your "cloud" is shit and has no future. DO clearly demonstrated otherwise. They're inflating the hype because they generate $$$ this way - from their public cloud, private deployments, training, certifications etc etc. Nothing wrong with that I guess, it's business.
I disagree with your post in general but was particularly confused by this point. Aren't openstack and buzzyness exactly the thing you're deriding?
And I disagree that DO is missing technical chops.
Re: Digital Ocean’s journey from TechStars reject to cloud-hosting darling
#36DigitalOcean is not a cloud or anything that resembles what a "cloud" is. If you consider "cloud" hosting backup-enabled virtual private servers with multiple operating-system choices and multiple locations, well, hate to break it to you, but that's has been around since 2005. Everyone is hopping on DO because it's marketed as a "cloud" and it's part of a tech accelerator (and maybe because it has SSDs and is so damn…
I think the SSDs and the price are why people are jumping on. Not the marketing. Their marketing is horrid.
"You've been developing like a BEAST and your app is ready to go.."
Re: Digital Ocean’s journey from TechStars reject to cloud-hosting darling
#37Every day, working with customers' products or witnessing stories such as DO's I realise that success is 90% marketing and 10% actual technical stuff. You don't have to have the greatest features or too many of them or even all of them working as advertised. You don't need to take security very seriously (hello DO, WhatsApp!) or use buzz-stuff such as OpenStack (hello Rackspace, HPCloud!) or any existing "cloud stand…
I think he way you are explaining it may give the wrong impression that the technical aspects are easy or unimportant which couldn't be further from the truth. In fact the technical aspects (and a compelling offering) are difficult and critical but merely a baseline to get in the game. Then, all being equal, the winners are those that figure out how to gain customers (marketing, for lack of a better term).
Re: Digital Ocean’s journey from TechStars reject to cloud-hosting darling
#38DigitalOcean is not a cloud or anything that resembles what a "cloud" is. If you consider "cloud" hosting backup-enabled virtual private servers with multiple operating-system choices and multiple locations, well, hate to break it to you, but that's has been around since 2005. Everyone is hopping on DO because it's marketed as a "cloud" and it's part of a tech accelerator (and maybe because it has SSDs and is so damn…
>Everyone is hopping on DO because it's marketed as a "cloud" and it's part of a tech accelerator (and maybe because it has SSDs and is so damn cheap). Other than that, there's really nothing special about it. The marketing is good. The quality of the product is good. It's incredibly easy to get started with. The tech accelerator I don't think plays any factor. I searched my database and there are 24 mentions of Tech…
The marketing is false though.
That would mean I can go ahead and market a Galaxy S6 as an Apple device and watch all the fanboys and teenage girls hop on. But of course I need pretty colors.
Re: Digital Ocean’s journey from TechStars reject to cloud-hosting darling
#39DigitalOcean is not a cloud or anything that resembles what a "cloud" is. If you consider "cloud" hosting backup-enabled virtual private servers with multiple operating-system choices and multiple locations, well, hate to break it to you, but that's has been around since 2005. Everyone is hopping on DO because it's marketed as a "cloud" and it's part of a tech accelerator (and maybe because it has SSDs and is so damn…
The biggest reason DO took off has little to do with the reasons you cite. It's got to do with simplicity and hourly billing. AWS had the latter without former. Your typical VPS host has a bit of both but wont tell you launch 20 instances for a few hours for pennies.
> Your typical VPS host has a bit of both but wont tell you to launch 20 instances for a few hours for pennies.
DigitalOcean limits you to 5 off the bat, but that's just being picky.
RackSpace, Atlantic, Gigenet, VPS.net, Oxeo, HPCloud, Upcloud, Dotblock, StormOnDemand (LiquidWeb) to name a few. And that's off the top of my head.
Re: Digital Ocean’s journey from TechStars reject to cloud-hosting darling
#40DigitalOcean is not a cloud or anything that resembles what a "cloud" is. If you consider "cloud" hosting backup-enabled virtual private servers with multiple operating-system choices and multiple locations, well, hate to break it to you, but that's has been around since 2005. Everyone is hopping on DO because it's marketed as a "cloud" and it's part of a tech accelerator (and maybe because it has SSDs and is so damn…
I think the SSDs and the price are why people are jumping on. Not the marketing. Their marketing is horrid. "You've been developing like a BEAST and your app is ready to go.."
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