Very happy DigitalOcean customer for 4+ years. Great to see this, too.
DigitalOcean VPC
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#122I'm glad they plugged their outbound network transfer fees compared to the others[1]. I was shocked and horrified when my AWS bill (which I pay myself) quadrupled due to outgoing network transfer fees. It's truly outrageous what they charge. I use Digital Ocean a lot now simply to avoid nasty surprises like that. I hope AWS and Google change that. [1] https://blog.digitalocean.com/its-all-about-the-bandwidth-wh...
Guess who‘s favorite evil corp cloud is a magnitude cheaper than AWS on transfer pricing? Oracle, which is why Zoom just signed a deal. https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/why-zoom-chose-oracle-clo...
Why did zoom go with Oracle? Maybe they just wanted more security nightmares and zerodays.
Or maybe it's palliative care.
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#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
$0.01/GB is fantastic, but I have a bandwidth intensive ML media application and don't know how to monetize or sell it quickly enough to pay for my bandwidth costs. Is there a cloud or dedicated server farm with even cheaper outbound bandwidth? Edit: as much as I hate Oracle, their first 10TB is free, and each GB after that is $0.0085/GB. Better...
If you’re okay with servers located in Germany, Hetzner is a provider I can vouch for and they offer additional egress at 1EUR/TB. 20TB included, too. (Billing has been rather painful, though.)
Can also vouch for Hetzner. Used them at several companies and they've always been pleasant to deal with.
I've moved several people off AWS into Hetzner exactly because of their egress costs, in one case cutting their total hosting cost by 90% for that reason.
Even for people who stick with AWS and don't want to deal with any added complexity, even something as simple as putting a caching proxy in Hetzner and routing European customers to it can sometimes produce significant cost reductions.
Re: DigitalOcean VPC
#124The value of digital ocean used to be simplicity.
Vpc isn’t simple.
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#125DigitalOcean seem to be slowly but surely becoming a "cloud provider", rather than a "VPS provider" - it's really great to see some attractively priced alternatives to Azure/AWS/GCP!
I was wondering if DO publish some kind of roadmap? I'd really like to know what else they plan on delivering over the next year or so?
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#126Got to love DO. Simple pricing, nothing hidden, not the most feature rich ecosystem, but I get no billing surprises. Source: customer for 3 years.
Same here, happy customer for 4 years. Currently we have ~60 VMs of different sizes (down from ~100 before COVID lockdown). My main wish at this point is cross data center load balancers.
What do you use all the VMs for, if you don't mind me asking?
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#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sounds like you are on a pre-pay plan?
Just a regular monthly plan. Some plans will claim it's an "unlimited texting plan" but really the charges are still there hidden. Maybe the provider has an agreement with other mobile phone providers to reimburse them for texts their customers send. My last provider refunded the cost if I forwarded the message to their spam department text number. We have pretty terrible mobile phone plans and rules here in Canada.
I live in Canada (Ontario) and have never heard of any plan doing something like this. I am on prepaid myself and have unlimited texting.
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#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
When you're using a private network v4 address exhaustion doesn't matter much and the simplicity of only 4 octets helps with IP memorability and simplicity. I would still prefer a v6 option though, as keeping private networks on v4 might be contributing to the slow adoption of v6.
> When you're using a private network v4 address exhaustion doesn't matter much Until you start trying to connect to enterprise networks... This is seriously ridiculous. It's 2020, and Google and now DO have no IPv6 in their cloud networks.
As a (former) network security guy, I shudder at the thought that you WANT to expose your internal routing details. That's a recipe for security disaster.
It is also an administration problem - you've given out an internal IP network to someone else -- and now your ability to move it to a different IP address for whatever reason depends on the change processes at the other enterprise, which can take months -- or on the ability of your own network infrastructure to NAT it to the new location.
It tends to work much better all around if you have a well defined "external" interface, that gets properly monitored and filtered with a network/app firewall, and gets routed to the right server -- and then internal change for your organization are decoupled from change processes in the others.
And for that, v4 exhaustion really doesn't matter.
Re: DigitalOcean VPC
#129I'm glad they plugged their outbound network transfer fees compared to the others[1]. I was shocked and horrified when my AWS bill (which I pay myself) quadrupled due to outgoing network transfer fees. It's truly outrageous what they charge. I use Digital Ocean a lot now simply to avoid nasty surprises like that. I hope AWS and Google change that. [1] https://blog.digitalocean.com/its-all-about-the-bandwidth-wh...
I hope they follow linode (https://www.linode.com/docs/platform/billing-and-support/net...) bandwidth the ability to combine bandwidth from different droplet
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#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you’re okay with servers located in Germany, Hetzner is a provider I can vouch for and they offer additional egress at 1EUR/TB. 20TB included, too. (Billing has been rather painful, though.)
Can also vouch for Hetzner. Used them at several companies and they've always been pleasant to deal with. I've moved several people off AWS into Hetzner exactly because of their egress costs, in one case cutting their total hosting cost by 90% for that reason. Even for people who stick with AWS and don't want to deal with any added complexity, even something as simple as putting a caching proxy in Hetzner and routing…
Check out Time4vps, they have some excellent prices on storage servers and their egress is generous.