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Re: The Meteoric Rise of DigitalOcean

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Post by julien421 »

darkarmani wrote: post #119
KenCochrane wrote: post #79

I have been using Digital Ocean as a sandbox for playing with Docker, and it has been great. I can spin up a server in less then 1 minute, install the Docker dependencies, and be up in running in no time. I do what I need to do, and then I spin it down if I don't need it anymore. I wrote down my notes on how to get Docker running on Digital Ocean, if anyone wants to play with it. There is even a promo code for a $10…

Thanks. I was up in running in no time following those directions. Oddly enough the first few tries running hello world came back with 502 errors: > root@docker:/proc# docker run base /bin/echo hello world Pulling repository base from https://index.docker.io/v1 2013/06/13 22:19:37 HTTP code: 502 After about 2 minutes it just started working. Was that a networking hiccup and on which side?

This was a temporary problem due to a AWS DNS Resolution issue[1], but it seems to be back now. Do you confirm?

http://status.aws.amazon.com/ [1] 3:42 PM PDT We are investigating DNS resolution issues in the US-EAST-1 Region.

Re: The Meteoric Rise of DigitalOcean

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Post by shykes »

julien421 wrote: post #121
darkarmani wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks. I was up in running in no time following those directions. Oddly enough the first few tries running hello world came back with 502 errors: > root@docker:/proc# docker run base /bin/echo hello world Pulling repository base from https://index.docker.io/v1 2013/06/13 22:19:37 HTTP code: 502 After about 2 minutes it just started working. Was that a networking hiccup and on which side?

This was a temporary problem due to a AWS DNS Resolution issue[1], but it seems to be back now. Do you confirm? http://status.aws.amazon.com/ [1] 3:42 PM PDT We are investigating DNS resolution issues in the US-EAST-1 Region.

Looks like maybe it should be hosted on Digital Ocean ;)

Re: The Meteoric Rise of DigitalOcean

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Post by opinologo »

I made a thorough analysis recently and discovered that catalysthost.com would give me the best value for money. I am using a "Trenta" OpenVZ Ubuntu 12.04 machine for $15.99 per month and I am quite happy with the performance, including network performance. This is the spec of the vm:

4 CPU Cores 2GB RAM 512MB vSwap 60GB Storage 2TB Bandwidth @ 1Gbps

You can compare similar plans here:

http://serverbear.com/1826-trenta-catalysthost#benchmarks http://serverbear.com/1990-2gb-ssd--2-cpu-digitalocean

Re: The Meteoric Rise of DigitalOcean

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Post by raiyu »

dpe82 wrote: post #106
pfg wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can confirm this on a Ubuntu 12.04 x64 droplet created 15 days ago.

Seems fixed on Ubuntu 12.04 x64 droplet created today.

There were three images that didn't like to regenerate host keys on their own when they were missing on the initial boot and we've update them today so it should all be cleared up now.

Thanks!

Re: The Meteoric Rise of DigitalOcean

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Post by Maxious »

graue wrote: post #104

Is anyone else bothered by the vague, overbroad restrictions in DigitalOcean's terms of service? Particularly: "2.5 You agree that you will NOT use DigitalOcean's services to: [..] Transmit, distribute, post, store, link, or otherwise traffic in information, software, or materials that is offensive, abusive, inappropriate, malicious, or detrimental" Almost anything can be offensive to someone. I compared the Linode a…

> I compared the Linode and AWS terms of service and neither has anything like this.

"No Illegal, Harmful, or Offensive Use or Content" is literally the first point in the AWS ToS and is all about what is "offensive" http://aws.amazon.com/aup/

> You may not use, or encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to use, the Services or AWS Site for any illegal, harmful or offensive use, or to transmit, store, display, distribute or otherwise make available content that is illegal, harmful, or offensive.

Re: The Meteoric Rise of DigitalOcean

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Post by bigiain »

Veratyr wrote: post #110
mschalle wrote: post #107

My one gripe with DigitalOcean is that their customer support leaves a great deal to be desired. For days I've been unable to replicate images across regions (any droplet I try to create gets in a permanent stuck state and can't be killed). I filed a service ticket days ago and was told I'd receive a response shortly but have still heard nothing. I've even sent replies pleading for some recognition that my issue is b…

As someone who works in (completely unrelated) support, the numerous emails may be a contributing factor to your problem. Most support is done using last contact as the priority. When you send a new email, you're resetting that counter and bumping yourself to the bottom of the queue. This was a problem we had with a /particular/ support system (Kayako) and we've since resolved it (with ZenDesk) but if they're using s…

Hmmm, that might explain why Pebble (the smart watch) support had this super passive aggressive sounding "if you keep emailing us about the same issue, we'll put your case to the bottom of the list" instructions.

Not the message you really want to be sending your already disgruntled customers - "Do I mail them and check to see if they even got my email which hasn't had any response in two weeks, or will that just put me _another_ two weeks further down their already abysmally slow response queue?".

Re: The Meteoric Rise of DigitalOcean

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Post by hnriot »

pfg wrote: post #68

I've been using DigitalOcean to host a GitLab instance for a while now (20GB Droplet) and it's been working great. I ran into two small issues so far. First of all, for some reason the traffic from my home connection is routed through New York (I'm in Europe using a Droplet in Amsterdam), resulting in a ~150ms RTT (I usually get 30-40ms to Amsterdam). Since this only happens with my home connection and it's fine in t…

The traffic is routed through NY to make it easier for the NSA.

Re: The Meteoric Rise of DigitalOcean

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Post by opinologo »

yumraj wrote: post #98

I'm currently using EC2 with RDS primarily because RDS provides major benefits to a non-DBA like me. Given that I would prefer to keep using RDS, and the network latency etc., any thoughts/advise on how DO-RDS would perform compared to EC2-RDS, with everything being in N.CA/SF Zone and using comparable EC2/DO instances for running my app server? Alternately, is there an easy way to benchmark RDS i/o from EC2 and DO,…

>>Alternately, is there an easy way to benchmark RDS i/o from EC2 and DO, both running Linux which can help in making this decision.

I found the benchmarks in http://serverbear.com/ very reliable

Re: The Meteoric Rise of DigitalOcean

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Post by Jgrubb »

rschmitty wrote: post #87
pfg wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm running GitLab (which is a rails app) with postgres (small database, so it's not using a lot of memory) on a $5 droplet. It's using about 50-75% of my memory. Here's what free says: total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 503516 488644 14872 0 9036 203300 -/+ buffers/cache: 276308 227208 Swap: 1048572 153704 894868 Depending on your apps' memory usage, you might be able to put two apps on a $5 droplet (I'd rec…

Sweet thanks. Do you use Passenger mod on nginx or some kinda setup?

Same as the other reply. I'm using Unicorn behind Nginx. Sidekiq is eating the biggest chunk of my memory too, and I haven't tried tuning it yet. Haven't "needed" to.
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