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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 tomschlick »

kawsper wrote: post #74
seunosewa wrote: post #59

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Perhaps users don't have any complaints about their management interface? Do you? Perhaps users mostly want performance and value which have been greatly improved by their substantial infrastructure upgrades?

Yes. Their IP Failover is really badly documented and hard to work with. Their Nodebalancers are noticeably slow, the interface is alright, but you are better off setting up your own loadbalancer. I feel that static networking could be made easier, and more automatic when I am adding a new node. Their stackscripts should be able to receive parameters for when it is running, and the error-reporting should be better. I…

Regarding static networking: https://www.linode.com/docs/platform/network-helper

Re: DigitalOcean Raises $83M in Series B Funding

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Post by twistedpair »

seiji wrote: post #32
samhoggnz wrote: post #30

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I'm not sure they're at the level of Cisco, but they do have certifications. http://aws.amazon.com/certification/

Oh, great to know. They are really cheap too ($150, $300, $75 re-up). Amusingly, that page demonstrates the need for an AWS certification in the first place: the page has over 100 things trying to grab your attention with no focus or clear direction at all. Amazon as a corporate entity seems to go for "maximum information + maximum confusion" in their UX at every turn. Always worth a re-read: https://gist.github.com/…

Why fear a complicated cloud? I tried DO. It was cute, then I kept using AWS. DO is very simple, for simple things. But where do I get my GPU optimized Droplet, or one with 10GB internet connection and 244GB of ram to computer that graph problem with 3B edges? DO's only got relatively small, simple instances.

Further, DO is MORE expensive than AWS. What you say? Well right now I can grab a spot request for a box with 8 cores and 30GB ram for $0.066/hr or $48/mo compared to $160/mo on DO. That's ~1/4 the cost. Also, most "AWS Sucks" benchmarks are naive at best, failing to use the local disk, rather than the NAS, and this only requires 3 bash lines to mount.

Re: DigitalOcean Raises $83M in Series B Funding

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Post by dubcanada »

alberth wrote: post #96
dubcanada wrote: post #72

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I've used them. Their control panel is not as pretty, and their community is not as large. But the product is arguably better, they offer things that DO doesn't offer like DYO ISO, daily backups for the same cost as DO's weekly (seriously DO, only weekly backups???), and a ton more.

So if you had to choose between using DO or Vultr, which would it be and why?

I use DO and silently complain about the lack of daily backups. I don't really have a need for the other stuff, and Vultr is cheaper (when I last looked). But for some reason I always end up just using DO.

Re: DigitalOcean Raises $83M in Series B Funding

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Post by brobinson »

lugg wrote: post #150
brobinson wrote: post #142

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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.

I haven't used DO since 2013 and I probably won't since I'm extremely happy with Vultr, but it's good to know that it's been improved!

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Post by Gigablah »

jebblue wrote: post #159
threeseed wrote: post #124

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For me: a) Average reliability - had numerous incidents at their London and Fremont DCs. And the complete inability to tell me what was happening in a timely manner was pretty unacceptable. b) Average support - they will answer the simple questions very quickly. But anything reasonably complex they will actually not bother responding at all.

It's been sweet sailing for me for years, maybe you should try one of their other datacenters instead of complaining about Fremont. Edit: Their support is top of the line.

"maybe you should try one of their other datacenters instead of complaining about Fremont"

Wow, just wow.

Re: DigitalOcean Raises $83M in Series B Funding

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Post by hrrsn »

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.

hrrsn@lillith:~$ uptime 15:13:16 up 233 days, 20:35, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.05

YMMV, but I've had zero issues with DigitalOcean's reliability. This is a VM that has been running since I spun it up.

Re: DigitalOcean Raises $83M in Series B Funding

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Post by manigandham »

chrismarlow9 wrote: post #131
stephen-mw wrote: post #107

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Why not just use AWS? Seems like you went from bad to slightly better. There's no reason to fear virtualization, and the automation is definitely one of the best aspects of running in a major cloud.

Because I prefer a set of simple and basic tools used in combination to accomplish something instead of a "push this button and it does everything" approach. It's the *nix pipe mentality of combining simple well built tools to build solid and reliable things that you can adapt any way you please. I also build things that are heavy on the network side, and virtualization drops networking performance a great deal (this…

What? AWS is great because it has a nice console but it also gives you direct access to all the VMs and there is a AWS command line you can install to program/script everything. What's missing here?

Re: DigitalOcean Raises $83M in Series B Funding

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Post by sillygoose »

Gigablah wrote: post #165
jebblue wrote: post #159

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It's been sweet sailing for me for years, maybe you should try one of their other datacenters instead of complaining about Fremont. Edit: Their support is top of the line.

"maybe you should try one of their other datacenters instead of complaining about Fremont" Wow, just wow.

    - Hey, the ship is on fire!
    - It's been smooth sailing for me. 
      Maybe you should move to a part that's *not* on fire,
      instead of complaining about the part that is!

Re: DigitalOcean Raises $83M in Series B Funding

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Post by joshmn »

chrismarlow9 wrote: post #92
jdoss wrote: post #88

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Who do you use for a dedicated provider?

joesdatacenter.com I do not work for joes or have any affiliation. It's a very "non-automated" setup. You file a ticket with a rep to get new servers and describe what you want (I need 5 more servers just like X), no forms online to automate it or any of that. The plus side of that is you never get a canned response or ignored. Very quick and professional.

Anyone else reading this, they're not a bad budget provider at all. A good analogy to make would be they're like a small pizza place in your hometown, versus Limestone or FDC.

If you don't mind me piggy-backing, I have a non-affiliated love affair with ReliableSite.net. Yes - weird name, but I've had nothing but amazing, amazing experiences with them. The quality is 5x what you get for paying 1/5th the price.

Before anyone thinks about getting into hardware on this kind of level, please do your research @ webhostingtalk.com. Yes, $5 can go a long way with DigitalOcean because they're funded (and kind of got lucky); but that other $5 VM? Good luck.

Re: DigitalOcean Raises $83M in Series B Funding

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Post by smt88 »

chrismarlow9 wrote: post #131
stephen-mw wrote: post #107

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Why not just use AWS? Seems like you went from bad to slightly better. There's no reason to fear virtualization, and the automation is definitely one of the best aspects of running in a major cloud.

Because I prefer a set of simple and basic tools used in combination to accomplish something instead of a "push this button and it does everything" approach. It's the *nix pipe mentality of combining simple well built tools to build solid and reliable things that you can adapt any way you please. I also build things that are heavy on the network side, and virtualization drops networking performance a great deal (this…

By your response, I can tell you haven't used AWS much. Using EC2 by itself is as simple as DO.
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