DigitalOcean Becomes a Public Company
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DigitalOcean Becomes a Public Company
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Re: DigitalOcean Becomes a Public Company
#2You'd think starting a reliable hosting business wouldn't be so hard, but Before digital ocean, I've used 3 other companies to host my businesses and had some pretty terrible experiences:
- joyent end of lifed the servers I was on, causing me to have to switch away from using them. - serverpronto had numerous downtime, too many times to count and server connectivity issues - rimuhosting nearly destroyed my business when their servers had intermittent hardware problems.
Then digital ocean came along and I've been using them for over 5 years. So far, no problems at all. Count me in as a happy customer.
Re: DigitalOcean Becomes a Public Company
#3You'd think starting a reliable hosting business wouldn't be so hard, but Before digital ocean, I've used 3 other companies to host my businesses and had some pretty terrible experiences: - joyent end of lifed the servers I was on, causing me to have to switch away from using them. - serverpronto had numerous downtime, too many times to count and server connectivity issues - rimuhosting nearly destroyed my business w…
Low margins + significant capex for equipment and opex for support and engineering makes it a hard business to sustain.
Disclosure: Built, ran, and sold a hosting company in the early 00s.
Re: DigitalOcean Becomes a Public Company
#4You'd think starting a reliable hosting business wouldn't be so hard, but Before digital ocean, I've used 3 other companies to host my businesses and had some pretty terrible experiences: - joyent end of lifed the servers I was on, causing me to have to switch away from using them. - serverpronto had numerous downtime, too many times to count and server connectivity issues - rimuhosting nearly destroyed my business w…
They're great while things work. If shit hits the fan, there's no support.