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DigitalOcean Raises $83M in Series B Funding

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Re: DigitalOcean Raises $83M in Series B Funding

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Post by threeseed »

riquito wrote: post #130
threeseed wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could not disagree more. I would NEVER run anything serious on Linode. They have a long history of withholding information from customers in the face of security incidents and outages. The last time they were hacked I found out from Reddit that it happened and even when they bothered to tell me they failed to say (a) what actually happened or (b) what steps they took to prevent it occurring again. And many, many outa…

Their blog answer most of your questions. https://blog.linode.com/2013/04/16/security-incident-update/ You can't prevent 0 days, and the informations hacked were encrypted.

Remember that was the 2nd or I believe 3rd time the same management UI was hacked. And that post was done days after the incident occurred e.g.

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?p=8646073

The issue here is not the 0 days occurred but how you deal with them and what systems you have in place to prevent them. Linode has consistently been sloppy at notifying customers and their auditing systems are/were clearly inadequate since their positions changed over the few days. Sure their data is encryptable but if you are sloppy about the process you're likely pretty sloppy about the implementation. It's trivial to decrypt data if you haven't encrypted it properly.

Re: DigitalOcean Raises $83M in Series B Funding

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Post by brobinson »

mumphster wrote: post #135
threeseed wrote: post #126

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> never really felt their management front-end was in urgent need of an update Even when it was hacked multiple times and customer VPSs compromised e.g. http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/03/bitcoins-worth-22800... Nothing is worse than spending weeks securing every aspect of your VPS only to have incidents like this appear. And worst of all ? To this day Linode never clearly said what happened or what they did to…

Not sure why this is being downvoted but the whole Linode hack incident was a huge factor for me to switch all my VPS's over to digital ocean.

I went to Vultr. DO's interface is just as bad if not worse than Linode's. :(

Re: DigitalOcean Raises $83M in Series B Funding

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Post by usaphp »

I've been using RackSpace for couple years before moving to DigitalOcean, I've had a good experience with Rackspace when I started but my bills kept growing and server started to have constant issues every now and then, so I've decided to move to DigitalOcean couple years ago. My traffic since then grew quite a lot from 100K/month to around 1 million visitors/month and my bills from DigitalOcean are still not much higher than they used to be at the later stages on RackSpace, and performance is much better for me with DigitalOcean.

The only thing I dont like about DigitalOcean droplets is the requirement to shut off the server before resizing, Rackspace allowed me to do it without a need to shut it off.

Re: DigitalOcean Raises $83M in Series B Funding

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Post by chourobin »

duggan wrote: post #40
jdoss wrote: post #4

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Honest question. How much would you pay to have something that manages the updates and setup for you and give you the sysadmin help when you need it?

Judging by the general implosion of the PaaS industry, not enough to make it worthwhile. It's a much more complex problem than most people think.

what makes you say the PaaS industry is imploding?

Re: DigitalOcean Raises $83M in Series B Funding

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Post by cgag »

arca_vorago wrote: post #80
angersock wrote: post #9

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Would anybody be interested in esoteric hosting? Think Linode, but specifically for FreeBSD/OpenBSD/Plan9/TempleOS/MinuetOS/etc.?

I've been thinking about using DFlyBSD as a host platform for such things, given some of it's awesome networking/virtualization features.

It'd be great for a webhost or something where you choose the OS, but I don't think you could run FreeBSD or OpenBSD on top of it.

Re: DigitalOcean Raises $83M in Series B Funding

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Post by api »

alberth wrote: post #46

Has anyone used Vultr.com? I ask because they have all the same features as DO + way more (e.g. dedicated hosting w/ same great panel, BYO ISO, etc).

I have, with absolutely zero problems. I recommend them often. Not sure I'd trust them with PCI compliance requirements or something that heavy but I'd certainly use them for commodity VPSes over many others. They seem to offer a lot better performance/cost than DO.

Vultr is a brand of this company -- https://www.choopa.com -- and they've been around for a while.

Re: DigitalOcean Raises $83M in Series B Funding

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Post by dangero »

joshburgess wrote: post #114
wooyi wrote: post #109

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Same experience here. A few of my developers migrated our servers to DO 2 years ago to "save" a few hundred dollars. Turns out DO has planned downtime every other month and its cost us 100x more in staff and headache dealing with them. You can't run a SaaS or anything that requires uptime reliability (ie, any sizable business) . I've transferred our main site back to AWS. Also AWS dedicated pricing is now almost the…

So, Digital Ocean doesn't have great reliable up time then? I've been using OpenShift's free hosting tier to host a Ghost blog, and it goes down CONSTANTLY, making it unusable. I was about to start paying the $5 a month plan with Digital Ocean, but I'm not going to if it also goes down frequently.

Have you thought about Heroku free tier?

Re: DigitalOcean Raises $83M in Series B Funding

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Post by meesterdude »

dotBen wrote: post #14

DO has really benefitted from Linode stalling over the past few years. I admire Linode for remaining a bootstrapped business but it feels as though the owners lost their fighting spirit and energy... Perhaps because the small pool of Linode owners felt they made enough money already. DOs announment talks about a storage product, which is strategically important and crucially something Linode has sorely needed for a l…

fun fact about linode: if it says automatic backups are on in your control panel, they can still be off on linode's end. I went to go recover from a recent snapshot, only to find our latest backup was 11 months ago. That it would be "on" on our end, and be broken for 11 months for a service i'm not supposed to have to think about, that really blew me away. But, to their credit, DO does not offer the same level of backups.

Re: DigitalOcean Raises $83M in Series B Funding

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Post by lugg »

brobinson wrote: post #142
mumphster wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure why this is being downvoted but the whole Linode hack incident was a huge factor for me to switch all my VPS's over to digital ocean.

I went to Vultr. DO's interface is just as bad if not worse than Linode's. :(

Its not that bad, it has been updated frequently though. Seems to be getting better.

I do remember it being quite lacking back in the day.

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