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DigitalOcean Receives $50M in Funding

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Re: DigitalOcean Receives $50M in Funding

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Post by bluedino »

sysk wrote: post #20
butwhy wrote: post #8

It blows my mind that this is happening. Back in the day, there were a thousand cheapo VPS providers out there with similar rates. But DO were the ones to put up an extremely simplified interface to spinning up VMs and that has seen them skyrocket (I'm not saying this is a bad thing). At the end of the day, I feel sorry for linode. The guys who offer a much better service (in almost every way) and are often overlooke…

Last time I checked Linode (~2 years ago) they were a bit pricey compared to competition. Maybe this is no longer the case?

SliceHost was Linode's only real competitor at the time, they always cost more and gave you less. Rackspace bought them and the pricing pretty much stayed the same.

DO is cheaper but it's not quite the same level of product.

Re: DigitalOcean Receives $50M in Funding

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Post by freebs »

gedrap wrote: post #53

I really like the content marketing approach DO took. If you google for some standard server maintenance problem (e.g. migrating from Apache to nginx), it's usually DO which is ranked first. Their posts are relatively high quality, and there are a lot of them, enough to cover many common problems. For example: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-migr... It doesn't show annoying pop ups, anything l…

Yep, this is how marketing is done these days. I'm glad someone on HN is appreciating good marketing. I often see devs refer to marketing as snake oil, simply because they've been exposed to bad marketing. Marketing is just like programming, it can be good or bad.

Re: DigitalOcean Receives $50M in Funding

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Post by WorldWideWayne »

paukiatwee wrote: post #39

Recently one of my production node landed on a bad physical host, DO reboot my node twice within 24 hours, I tweeted about it and DO support open a ticket for me. Since the physical node have problem, I plan to take snapshot then spin up a new node using the image. However, as the physical node have problem, the snapshot take more than 7 hours and still failed to snapshot (No way to cancel snapshot task). DO support…

Why would you tweet about it before opening a support ticket yourself?

Re: DigitalOcean Receives $50M in Funding

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Post by curiously »

paukiatwee wrote: post #39

Recently one of my production node landed on a bad physical host, DO reboot my node twice within 24 hours, I tweeted about it and DO support open a ticket for me. Since the physical node have problem, I plan to take snapshot then spin up a new node using the image. However, as the physical node have problem, the snapshot take more than 7 hours and still failed to snapshot (No way to cancel snapshot task). DO support…

it works fine for production. although one time one of my none essential droplet had trojan and started launchign DDOS attacks and it was shut down. I don't know how it happened but the password was super weak.

Strong passwords and always use a private key when SSHing.

Re: DigitalOcean Receives $50M in Funding

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Post by doublerebel »

Igglyboo wrote: post #37
butwhy wrote: post #8

It blows my mind that this is happening. Back in the day, there were a thousand cheapo VPS providers out there with similar rates. But DO were the ones to put up an extremely simplified interface to spinning up VMs and that has seen them skyrocket (I'm not saying this is a bad thing). At the end of the day, I feel sorry for linode. The guys who offer a much better service (in almost every way) and are often overlooke…

Why is Linode so much better? I got a bunch of free credit for DO and I'm only using it for small things so I went with them, thinking about spinning up larger projects however and would like to look at my options.

Last I looked, DO has next to no SLA and Linode offers 99% SLA (almost no cloud provider offers SLA, much less 99% -- exception being Joyent at 100%). Also DO support is known for being a bit slow and Linode support is very quick to respond any time of day. YMMV.

Re: DigitalOcean Receives $50M in Funding

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Post by fizzbatter »

blfr wrote: post #48
fizzbatter wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there anything inherently different (security, performance, or otherwise) about these servers of Runabove's? I run a fair amount of dev servers, and that price ($2.50) is mind blowing. But i fear that it's far too cheap to be anything but a letdown.. Thoughts?

They're based on OpenStack where DO rolled out their own system, I believe. On the upside, you can use all the CLI tools (nova, etc) that come with OpenStack, existing software should be compatible, and you get some of the additional cloud features (object storage, security groups). On the downside, the panel isn't as nice. The "expert mode" is just OpenStack's Horizon. But the servers, the instances themselves, are…

I'll likely be giving it a try for the weekend, thanks!

Re: DigitalOcean Receives $50M in Funding

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Post by finishingmove »

gedrap wrote: post #53

I really like the content marketing approach DO took. If you google for some standard server maintenance problem (e.g. migrating from Apache to nginx), it's usually DO which is ranked first. Their posts are relatively high quality, and there are a lot of them, enough to cover many common problems. For example: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-migr... It doesn't show annoying pop ups, anything l…

I can't stress enough how much I appreciate the conciseness in their blog post tutorials. Major kudos!

Re: DigitalOcean Receives $50M in Funding

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Post by mynegation »

edwinyzh wrote: post #29
lukasm wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Companies take debt to optimise tax.

Well, I need to ask what does this mean, I appreciate it if anybody can explain in with an example :)

The better wikipedia article would be http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_shield

Debt itself (as a liability) is definitely not deducted from profit, but repayment of debt is deducted from the profit, and - what is more important - interest on debt is deducted from the tax base as a result. Which means that if you can load up on debt to get higher return, than you would get investing your own money.

Re: DigitalOcean Receives $50M in Funding

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Post by wyattjoh »

curiously wrote: post #64
paukiatwee wrote: post #39

Recently one of my production node landed on a bad physical host, DO reboot my node twice within 24 hours, I tweeted about it and DO support open a ticket for me. Since the physical node have problem, I plan to take snapshot then spin up a new node using the image. However, as the physical node have problem, the snapshot take more than 7 hours and still failed to snapshot (No way to cancel snapshot task). DO support…

it works fine for production. although one time one of my none essential droplet had trojan and started launchign DDOS attacks and it was shut down. I don't know how it happened but the password was super weak. Strong passwords and always use a private key when SSHing.

Or no password and only private key :)

Re: DigitalOcean Receives $50M in Funding

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Post by jtolj »

gedrap wrote: post #53

I really like the content marketing approach DO took. If you google for some standard server maintenance problem (e.g. migrating from Apache to nginx), it's usually DO which is ranked first. Their posts are relatively high quality, and there are a lot of them, enough to cover many common problems. For example: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-migr... It doesn't show annoying pop ups, anything l…

I think it was Slicehost that pioneered this approach for VPS hosting companies quite a while ago, although it may also have been Linode as I really didn't become aware of them until Rackspace bought Slicehost and I had to migrate.
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