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Slowly, very slowly, DO is creeping towards having enough features to peel users off of AWS and GCP. Block storage, load balancers, and now blob storage...if you don't need managed queues or databases, you can probably save some serious coin by running services on DO. S3 sets a high bar in terms of durability and availability, so it will be interesting to see how well DO can compete, and it will take a long time to g…
Slowly, very slowly, DO is creeping towards having enough features to peel users off of AWS and GCP. Block storage, load balancers, and now blob storage...if you don't need managed queues or databases, you can probably save some serious coin by running services on DO. S3 sets a high bar in terms of durability and availability, so it will be interesting to see how well DO can compete, and it will take a long time to g…
That said, I kind of hope it's not Compose.io - they seem ridiculously overpriced for PostgreSQL compared to AWS's and GCP's offerings.
If there's anything I've learned about object storage over the last year, it is: don't use object storage unless you need it for a particularly narrow use case of silly data volumes or CDN storage for a massively distributed content network. Anything else, forget it. It rarely if ever works properly with standard Linux or Windows tools (s3), it has a rat's nest of arbitrary restrictions which require a language lawye…
I don't understand this argument. Why is it harder to store credentials for S3 or GCS than it is to store credentials for rsync or ssh?
I wonder what technology they use under the hood. Ceph? GlusterFS? Custom software?
There's pretty much zero information on that page, so why should I care?
We roll out a public beta test with existing customers to ensure performance and reliability before doing a GA release. This allows customers to use the new product and provide feedback as well as help us to ensure a great level of service when the product goes full GA. So it's really a way for customers to test out new products early, but the specific details are specifically light so that if there are any major cha…
Is it S3 compatible? Does it compete with S3? Does it supports static file hosting? How do permissions work?
I think it would make more sense to communicate that you're looking for beta testers for an object storage service.
I wonder what technology they use under the hood. Ceph? GlusterFS? Custom software?
This might be possible because of the advances in software defined networking. Cloud firewall removes the hassles of setting up complex iptables in the name of network security and frees those extra cpu cycles and memory utilization.
DigitalOcean is getting better at solving common VPS use cases. I like it :)
Anybody have or see pricing after early access period?
We aren't providing pricing information till full GA which is later in the year. All beta users will be given 1TB of free object storage during the beta period.
For me it seems if a developer has to spend more than an hour testing this new product they are better off using S3.