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The Meteoric Rise of DigitalOcean

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Re: The Meteoric Rise of DigitalOcean

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Post by gabemart »

I'd be very interested to know if DO make a positive margin on their $5 droplets. I feel like I push a fair amount of data through mine, and plan to push more in the future using a bunch of $5 droplets and round-robin DNS. I'd feel better if I knew I was still a +EV customer.

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Post by ap22213 »

Until Digital Ocean came around, I'd always thought it bizzare that there weren't more serious competitors to AWS.

Under the 'competitive advantage' model, it is somewhat unusual that a diversified company like Amazon could be the most efficient vendor at providing a 'commodified', targeted offering like cloud hosting.

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Post by korzun »

It would be interesting to see how many of those customers come and go.

I have and know people who use DO but it's mostly for early stage development prior to moving to a dedicated/customers infrastructure.

Re: The Meteoric Rise of DigitalOcean

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Post by korzun »

andrewmunsell wrote: post #4
akerl_ wrote: post #2

The growth chart is missing "IPv6 Addresses".

Based on your comment, I'm not sure if you know this, but DigitalOcean doesn't offer Ipv6 at any of their data centers right now, so it'd just be a flat line at 0.

I think he means that the statistics do not include IPV6 space other providers use.

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Post by jjoe »

I feel like DO has no competitive advantage. They sell servers but then anyone with a reasonable infrastructure and programmers on payroll can scale the way they have. So while it's an impressive rise, it can't be taken for granted. Because all could falter over night. That's just the nature of the business and industry.

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Post by mplewis »

jjoe wrote: post #8

I feel like DO has no competitive advantage. They sell servers but then anyone with a reasonable infrastructure and programmers on payroll can scale the way they have. So while it's an impressive rise, it can't be taken for granted. Because all could falter over night. That's just the nature of the business and industry.

What do you mean by no competitive advantage? When they launched, they were selling Linode's offerings with SSD for 1/4 the price.
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