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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 tlrobinson »

jtolj wrote: post #70
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.

Yes I was about to say, Slicehost used to do this. I learned quite a bit from their articles.

Re: DigitalOcean Receives $50M in Funding

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Post by veeti »

jtolj wrote: post #70
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.

Slicehost had it first, then Linode followed.

Re: DigitalOcean Receives $50M in Funding

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Post by Donzo »

icelancer wrote: post #60
Donzo wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been following my DO allocation using New Relic. When I first signed up, I noticed the hypervisor stealing from my allocation. Not a lot, but some. After a week or two, however, this ceased. I can now report that for almost a year now I have been receiving my full allocation. I am very pleased with DO, but based on the good things that I've read on here, I'll give Linode a shot if DO ever drops the ball horrendo…

What's the best way to check allocation theft using NR?

I'm not sure of the best way, but I was able to tell by looking at the CPU usage chart when you are analyzing your server. The brown line indicates resources stolen by the hypervisor.

There's probably a better way to find out...

Re: DigitalOcean Receives $50M in Funding

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Post by alfg »

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…

Same happened to one of my production nodes as well. I had to take a snapshot and migrate to another physical node as suggested by the support team. Had about 6 reboots without warning in the last 2 months.

I love DO, but sometimes the reboots without warning can be annoying.

Re: DigitalOcean Receives $50M in Funding

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Post by corford »

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…

Linode bet the wrong way by prioritising more cores over SSDs and I think this slip up is what gave DO room to enter the market. Had Linode moved to SSDs earlier and offered their cheapest VM @ $10 instead of $20, DO's trajectory may have been a little different. Also, Linode was (and still is) very bad at marketing imho. DO definitely spanked them on that front (both through their content marketing strategy and just by virtue of their $5 SSD offering which caused all the geek hobbyists to jump over and start blogging about them).

Having said all of that, Linode are still going very strong and remain the much better option for production stuff. I have 3 machines with DO (two $5 ones and a $40 one) and about 15 with Linode (of varying sizes) and in my opinion Linode is head and shoulders above DO in terms of features, capability, professionalism and reliability. They just need to improve their marketing.

Re: DigitalOcean Receives $50M in Funding

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Post by raiyu »

finishingmove wrote: post #67
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!

Thanks! Etel wrote many of the articles herself before building out an amazing team. She works really hard to make the articles engaging, informative, and easy to read.

Re: DigitalOcean Receives $50M in Funding

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Post by curiously »

wyattjoh wrote: post #69
curiously wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 :)

isn't the whole purpose of private key to avoid having to type in password?

Re: DigitalOcean Receives $50M in Funding

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Post by corford »

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.

Their network is more reliable, their control panel is much more advanced and they offer a lot more capabilities (load balancers, longview, additional IPv4 addresses etc.).

DO is great at what it does (I have 3 vms with them) but when you need more, Linode wins.

Re: DigitalOcean Receives $50M in Funding

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Post by toomuchtodo »

ghshephard wrote: post #41
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…

Alternative perspective - Recognize any time you use a cloud provider, you need to be aware that not only are the nodes ephemeral, but the zone/data center you are deploying on may go down as well. Plan for your server to go down at any time, and, if you have actual $$$ in play, also plan for the zone to go down. Amazon encourages this thinking by having very low-latency links between AZ (Availability Zones) - and th…

Amazon has a robust ecosystem of supporting services and APIs to enable you to orchestrate as you described. DigitalOcean does not.

Re: DigitalOcean Receives $50M in Funding

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Post by yesimahuman »

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…

This works super well. It's also the strategy my company employs. Teaching people is the best kind of marketing you can do in the developer space (and probably most any other space).
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