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I'm struggling to ssh into droplets, but it seemed like when I was ssh'd in, I didn't have an issue at all.
It seems to be intermittently up and down. So your connections all die, and you can't reconnect for a while, then it comes back and everything looks good for a bit until it dies again.
For context: I'm a happy Digital Ocean customer (as well as Rackspace and others). I like their services and consider them a great value for the money. I've also gotten multiple developer friends into using them. But I don't let them be a single point of failure for anything critical.
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I'm not too qualified to comment on the hosting market, but I do want to vouch for DigitalOcean as I've never had uptime issues with them until now. They also have always had timely and helpful support and their pricing is obviously competitive. That being said, near 100% uptime is really desired in this space and I've been scratching my head for the past hour or so wondering why I couldn't connect to my mongo proces…
I've been using Linode for many years, and DO for some time now (a year? not sure, since I can't even login to their control panel right now and check). I've seen issues on both providers, and dealt with support of both not too infrequently. I'd still say Linode is miles ahead in terms of expertise and responsiveness. Most of my servers are on Linode for this reason, and only a few on DO. As a customer I enjoy this c…
You should probably reconsider hosting production sites on super-cheap VPSes with a 1:1 SLA refund. They're going to go down. And, when they do, you'll get the 7/10ths of a cent refund per hour promised for your $5 instance (1.4 cents per hour for $10, 2.8 cents per hour for $20, etc). But if you depend on a site for your business, ask yourself how much it costs you per hour of downtime and plan appropriately. For co…
Things like saltstack (saltstack.org) make this mega-easy.
You should probably reconsider hosting production sites on super-cheap VPSes with a 1:1 SLA refund. They're going to go down. And, when they do, you'll get the 7/10ths of a cent refund per hour promised for your $5 instance (1.4 cents per hour for $10, 2.8 cents per hour for $20, etc). But if you depend on a site for your business, ask yourself how much it costs you per hour of downtime and plan appropriately. For co…
downtime is an issue no matter how much you pay your infrastructure provider. You should account for downtime in your application and your infra by taking advantage of low-hanging high availability fruit. Things like saltstack (saltstack.org) make this mega-easy.
I'm a big fan of Linode. Have had one of their mid-range servers for about 2 years now and have had no troubles. When it came time to upgrading, or any other questions I had, their support staff is 1) quick, 2) knowledgable, 3) thorough & helpful. I've used DO in the past for quick spin-ups, and they're great for that. But for long running applications I'd stay away. Was actually considering DO for a new project, but…