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Re: GitLab Partners with DigitalOcean to make CI more affordable

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Post by mc32 »

phillc73 wrote: post #18

> *Note: Promotion code available for new DigitalOcean customers only. This type of promotion really aggravates me. I'm not just saying this only about the announced GitLab/DigitialOcean partnership, but rather as a general comment as I see this customer acquisition ruse quite a lot elsewhere too. I spend money with DigitalOcean. I don't feel particularly rewarded for my loyalty when I can't enjoy the same promotion…

I think while understandable, it's a bit irrelevant. DO is either worth it at the price you pay, or not worth it. It's like when I buy something at the checkout and then the next week it's on sale at a discount. Either that item was worth it to me at the mark up (in which case I bought it) or it wasn't (in which case I would have passed). I think that's the same here. Sure, I'll feel "hey, I could have saved "X" and true, I could have, but I obviously found value at the price it was being offered.

Re: GitLab Partners with DigitalOcean to make CI more affordable

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Post by reitanqild »

BoppreH wrote: post #59
phillc73 wrote: post #18

> *Note: Promotion code available for new DigitalOcean customers only. This type of promotion really aggravates me. I'm not just saying this only about the announced GitLab/DigitialOcean partnership, but rather as a general comment as I see this customer acquisition ruse quite a lot elsewhere too. I spend money with DigitalOcean. I don't feel particularly rewarded for my loyalty when I can't enjoy the same promotion…

Two years ago the GitHub Student Developer Pack gave me $100, which I have been using to maintain a tiny droplet (literally changed my life, thank you). Last month Digital Ocean sent me this message: We’re truly sorry if this came as a surprise. As of March 2015, we revised our Terms of Service announcing that we’re no longer able to offer credits that do not expire, and any unused credit added to your account more t…

Did you try asking for an exception?

I see others in this discussion have done.

Also based on my experience with DO (small ex customer, on aws now) it absolutely wouldn't seem out of character for them to fix that.

Re: GitLab Partners with DigitalOcean to make CI more affordable

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Post by [deleted] »

kuschku wrote: post #82
BoppreH wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Two years ago the GitHub Student Developer Pack gave me $100, which I have been using to maintain a tiny droplet (literally changed my life, thank you). Last month Digital Ocean sent me this message: We’re truly sorry if this came as a surprise. As of March 2015, we revised our Terms of Service announcing that we’re no longer able to offer credits that do not expire, and any unused credit added to your account more t…

I got the mail in early april, and it, in fact, even violates German law (promotional coupons and promotional credit, if not otherwise specified, is valid for 3 years, and can not be revoked via ToS changes). But I do not wish to sue, as it would just cause me a lot of trouble, and I’d rather spend the money on a hoster I can actually trust. Instead of a hoster violating laws and frauding customers out of their legal…

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Re: GitLab Partners with DigitalOcean to make CI more affordable

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Post by mappu »

jonalmeida wrote: post #107
BoppreH wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Two years ago the GitHub Student Developer Pack gave me $100, which I have been using to maintain a tiny droplet (literally changed my life, thank you). Last month Digital Ocean sent me this message: We’re truly sorry if this came as a surprise. As of March 2015, we revised our Terms of Service announcing that we’re no longer able to offer credits that do not expire, and any unused credit added to your account more t…

I received this email as well and a friend recommended I donate the server uptime to boinc[1] which can make better use of it than trying to find something to use it on. [1]: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/

My charity of choice was GIMPS ( http://www.mersenne.org/ ).

Re: GitLab Partners with DigitalOcean to make CI more affordable

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Post by uggedal »

BoppreH wrote: post #59
phillc73 wrote: post #18

> *Note: Promotion code available for new DigitalOcean customers only. This type of promotion really aggravates me. I'm not just saying this only about the announced GitLab/DigitialOcean partnership, but rather as a general comment as I see this customer acquisition ruse quite a lot elsewhere too. I spend money with DigitalOcean. I don't feel particularly rewarded for my loyalty when I can't enjoy the same promotion…

Two years ago the GitHub Student Developer Pack gave me $100, which I have been using to maintain a tiny droplet (literally changed my life, thank you). Last month Digital Ocean sent me this message: We’re truly sorry if this came as a surprise. As of March 2015, we revised our Terms of Service announcing that we’re no longer able to offer credits that do not expire, and any unused credit added to your account more t…

To compare I currently have $8,194.54 credit with Linode which I received through referrals. I've had most of them for over 6 years[1].

[1] http://uggedal.com/journal/vps-performance-comparison/

Re: GitLab Partners with DigitalOcean to make CI more affordable

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Post by jobvandervoort »

StavrosK wrote: post #109
rohanprabhu wrote: post #13

Kind of off-topic, but the work GitLab is putting in and the things they come up with every other day is crazily impressive. We moved from Github to GitLab sometime ago and we believed that to be a trade-off for moving to our own infrastructure. It always seemed like GitLab wasn't "quite there". Today, however it is a whole different story. We pretty much cannot go back to Github at all because of how well-integrated…

Seriously, we evaluated it, what, two months ago, and it was missing some features. I check now, and it has the missing features and then some. I wonder if we were just evaluating Community edition and it didn't have merge requests or something... I am super impressed with Gitlab, though. I am moving projects there right now.

That's great to hear. Let us know if you need any help moving or get stuck somewhere.

Re: GitLab Partners with DigitalOcean to make CI more affordable

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Post by sytse »

spdustin wrote: post #98
spdustin wrote: post #69

I have a (perhaps) more incendiary take on this kind of thing. I have no problem with promo codes for new customers. Zero. None. As a business owner, I know damn well there are some products or services that need a little "taster" offered to a potential customer to get them even modestly interested. Existing paying customers? Why would you spend money to acquire customers that you've already acquired. You had your re…

FYI, the above response was related to the below comments about existing DO customers getting screwed out of a $10 promotion, one that wasn't even featured prominently on the Gitlab site. I wanted to show my support for DO and Gitlab here, and thought it best to do so as a new top level comment. I honestly didn't consider that my comment would end up above the others.

Thanks for your post spdustin, I greatly appreciate it.

Re: GitLab Partners with DigitalOcean to make CI more affordable

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Post by sytse »

StavrosK wrote: post #109
rohanprabhu wrote: post #13

Kind of off-topic, but the work GitLab is putting in and the things they come up with every other day is crazily impressive. We moved from Github to GitLab sometime ago and we believed that to be a trade-off for moving to our own infrastructure. It always seemed like GitLab wasn't "quite there". Today, however it is a whole different story. We pretty much cannot go back to Github at all because of how well-integrated…

Seriously, we evaluated it, what, two months ago, and it was missing some features. I check now, and it has the missing features and then some. I wonder if we were just evaluating Community edition and it didn't have merge requests or something... I am super impressed with Gitlab, though. I am moving projects there right now.

The Community Edition also has merge requests and all the major and essential features. For the feature differences please see https://about.gitlab.com/features/#compare

Re: GitLab Partners with DigitalOcean to make CI more affordable

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Post by sytse »

sfilipov wrote: post #84
sytse wrote: post #5

For more information about the autoscaling see https://about.gitlab.com/2016/03/29/gitlab-runner-1-1-releas... Questions about anything GitLab are very welcome.

I have a question regarding the difference between the "concurrent" and "limit" parameters seen here [1]. I understand that if I'm running a managing runner in machine mode with limit=10 then it can start a maximum of 10 machines. What does "concurrent" affect in this context. I don't want the managing runner to do any builds locally -- just to send to runners managed by machine. [1] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/git…

Glad you found the answer in our docs, thanks for updating your comment.

Re: GitLab Partners with DigitalOcean to make CI more affordable

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Post by sytse »

awinter-py wrote: post #102
sytse wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're welcome. To read more about build artifacts please see http://doc.gitlab.com/ce/ci/build_artifacts/README.html

I'm sure you hear this a lot, but thanks & keep up the good work. I'm grateful for all the great open source tools I use, but you guys are in the upper echelon for making consistent forward strides without breaking too much.

Thanks! Comments like yours are an inspiration to us, I'll share with the team (now 70+ people!).
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