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Post by vira28 »

jandrese wrote: post #93
enos_feedler wrote: post #61

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I dont think an existing cloud provider makes sense since they’ve all ramped their efforts pretty hard to compete with each other. I would suspect AAPL would be the buyer. It is a big risk for all iOS apps to be backed by infrastructure belonging to other companies they compete with in consumer devices. I think AAPL would want to make another option available.

I guess iCloud is hosted on AWS? I never actually looked. It doesn't seem to be that big of an issue for Apple though. And if it did happen I guess that wouldn't be so bad, I mean it could be worse. Oracle could decide to get into the cloud business by buying out DO.

thats a good point. For Oracle they should be appealing.

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Post by samsepi0l »

op00to wrote: post #103
tempsy wrote: post #52

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curious what makes you bullish? i'm a total outsider but it does feel like the walls are closing around smaller players as the big get bigger.

Digital Ocean gives me peace of mind. Unlike Amazon or Google, I am confident I'm not going to get a $300k bill from DO overnight.

This is actually huge. Especially in a startup or other small business. Misconfiguring something in AWS (or just simply not understanding their contrived billing models) can get unpredictably expensive.

Re: DigitalOcean is laying off staff

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Post by marto1 »

Sad to see. They've been nothing but great with me as a customer and should serve as an example of how to do good business(yes, I know, I know..scandal this, scandal that).

Hope the laid off find something else and maybe better soon.

Re: DigitalOcean is laying off staff

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Post by sparkling »

christophilus wrote: post #79
sparkling wrote: post #59

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I think they would benefit a lot from adding a thin Heroku-like PaaS layer while keeping the option to "build from scratch".

That’s why they acquired Nanobox, presumably.

Never heard about Nanobox up until now. Interesting, let's see what comes out of that.

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Post by markbnj »

shakezula wrote: post #80
Townley wrote: post #55

I'm rooting for them as one of the best potential guardians against the cloud provider market becoming even more of an oligopoly. Cloud resources should be a commodity. Providers should offer compute resources, persistent storage, load balancers, and MAYBE a small handful of other services. The way Digital Ocean succeeds against AWS is by aligning itself with this idea, and competing on specialization. Forget competi…

I'm rooting for them too, for the same reason. It's unhealthy for everyone to have Amazon be the only real option for servers. Just look at what happens when Amazon goes down for an hour. It's not hyperbolic to say the entire world notices. My work doesn't even use Amazon, but when they went down last time, every _other_ service I was using used Amazon, so it didn't matter if I was vendored in or not, I had to just l…

> It's unhealthy for everyone to have Amazon be the only real option for servers

I'm not belittling AWS' commanding market share, but they are hardly the "only real option for servers." Google and Azure are both in the leviathan league and have competitive pricing.

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Post by axaxs »

shakezula wrote: post #72

Is it just me or are we starting to see the first signs of mass lay-offs in tech? Mozilla, now DigitalOcean, I feel like we're starting to see the first bleeding cuts of the recession take hold. And I just got my life together, too.

I wouldn't worry about it. Last time there was a pullback that I can remember, every other day it was HUGE companies(think MS, IBM, HP, etc) laying off tens of thousands of people. These are two relatively small companies, in challenging sectors, laying off a relatively small amount of people. Don't worry yourself making more of it than it is right now.

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Post by tempsy »

samsepi0l wrote: post #112
op00to wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Digital Ocean gives me peace of mind. Unlike Amazon or Google, I am confident I'm not going to get a $300k bill from DO overnight.

This is actually huge. Especially in a startup or other small business. Misconfiguring something in AWS (or just simply not understanding their contrived billing models) can get unpredictably expensive.

what about Linode?

Re: DigitalOcean is laying off staff

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Post by donarb »

Townley wrote: post #55

I'm rooting for them as one of the best potential guardians against the cloud provider market becoming even more of an oligopoly. Cloud resources should be a commodity. Providers should offer compute resources, persistent storage, load balancers, and MAYBE a small handful of other services. The way Digital Ocean succeeds against AWS is by aligning itself with this idea, and competing on specialization. Forget competi…

AWS has their own competitive service against DigitalOcean called Lightsail. Their cheapest plan is $3.50 month (512MB/20GB SSD), the bigger plans are roughly similar in pricing and features to DigitalOcean.

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Post by sethammons »

adamc wrote: post #88
dothrowaway wrote: post #10

(Throwaway, obviously) I'm a DO employee on the tech side of the house. According to the CTO, the primary reason for this was actually reorg, not financial though that obviously played a part. Mostly managers got cut, with the goal of flattening the org. I'm keeping my ear to the ground but it doesn't seem like there's going to be more cuts any time soon at least. Apparently we're still hiring a ton this year, so tha…

Offered because I love words: jibes ("fits"). https://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/ct-tribu-words-wor...

TIL. I have used "jive" instead of "jibe" for a couple of decades. At some point, words change due to usage. I wonder how many people fall into my same boat. And I used it knowing it means "music" - the way it sounded to me was to "jive" was to fit in harmony.
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