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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 jread »

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.

Linode is a more capable, performant and reliable platform. e.g. Look at a 90 day availability comparison: https://cloudharmony.com/status-3months-for-linode-and-digit...

Re: DigitalOcean Receives $50M in Funding

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Post by jread »

gabemart wrote: post #36
tim333 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I signed up for DO because they were $5/mo and at the time Linode was $20. Twenty bucks is fine for production but for hobbyist mucking about, which I would classify my usage as, it's a bit steep. I image many users are in a similar situation.

Linode still don't have a $5 offering. Linode's cheapest VPS is $10 per month on a 125Mbit port. DO's cheapest is $5 per month on a 1Gb port. That difference is huge if you're doing high-bandwidth work and you run a ton of droplets.

But you're sharing the 1Gb/s link with who knows how many $5 droplets - resulting in unpredictable IO. Linode network IO is dedicated and scalable to 10 Gb/s. DO is shared and capped at 1 Gb/s - even on the largest droplet.

Re: DigitalOcean Receives $50M in Funding

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Post by AYBABTME »

curiously wrote: post #77
wyattjoh wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or no password and only private key :)

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

You don't want passwords, at all, so that you can't be bruteforced.

On the otherside, your private key, on your local machine, should be password protected. But the node itself should not accept passwords over SSH.

Re: DigitalOcean Receives $50M in Funding

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Post by xur17 »

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…

I used several of those 'cheapo VPS providers' in the past, and was always plagued with issues. DO was backed by some major VCs, which made it a bit more trustable.

Re: DigitalOcean Receives $50M in Funding

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Post by matwood »

Xeoncross wrote: post #50
debacle wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I only use DO because they have a $5 offering. If Linode had a "meager support" option at $5 I would take it in a heartbeat. I love that company.

By the time DO started competing with Linode, it wasn't worth Linode's time to care about a cheap $5 box. The only problem is that people go to a $5 droplet and stay for a $XXX droplet. Linode should have taken them seriously.

It is so common there is even a term for it, 'Disruptive Innovation' [1].

The term is used in business and technology literature to describe innovations that improve a product or service in ways that the market does not expect, typically first by designing for a different set of consumers in a new market and later by lowering prices in the existing market.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruptive_innovation

Re: DigitalOcean Receives $50M in Funding

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Post by wmf »

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…

Unfortunately, VM storage isn't a solved problem at scale. You can use remote storage (like EBS) to avoid being dependent on any particular server, but in practice it also has outages and performance anomalies.

Re: DigitalOcean Receives $50M in Funding

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Post by sdkaufman78 »

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…

Similar story here - signed up for DO after coming across a couple of really helpful articles.

For me, the articles show

1) They're competent. If they're experts at solving all these random problems in managing a Linux server, they probably also know how to run a reliable, high-performant VPS.

2) They care about their customers. They're going the extra mile to help customers (and potential customers) solve their actual day-to-day problems. This is a good sign.

Haven't yet had an actual problem that required me to contact their support (which hints at #1), but it's the impression I (and probably many others) got from the articles.

Re: DigitalOcean Receives $50M in Funding

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Post by sdkaufman78 »

debacle wrote: post #42
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…

I only use DO because they have a $5 offering. If Linode had a "meager support" option at $5 I would take it in a heartbeat. I love that company.

Same here. I still have a $20 Linode for production, but wanting play around and test things out without thinking too much about cost is the reason I also frequently spin up 1-2 DO VPS's.

Re: DigitalOcean Receives $50M in Funding

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Post by sdkaufman78 »

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…

> The guys who offer a much better service (in almost every way)

If you need a few small VPSs to play around and test things out, and are fine with the (very) occasional performance / bandwidth degradation, I don't see how Linode offers you a "much better service", at least in terms of cost.

I have a Linode VPS for production, but find myself often spinning up and tearing down DO VPSs for experimentation.

Re: DigitalOcean Receives $50M in Funding

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Post by icelancer »

Donzo wrote: post #73
icelancer wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

Good enough, will test. Thanks!
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