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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 prirun »

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. :(

I chose vultr over DO because DO used so many external web services to run their site. Every new page at their site required me to turn on 5 more domains in NoScript. Vultr only required me to enable their site. The performance at vultr was also very good for what I needed: test servers.

Re: DigitalOcean Raises $83M in Series B Funding

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Post by pharaohgeek »

hrrsn wrote: post #166
joshburgess wrote: post #114

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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.

I agree. Our site, http://www.gurufoo.com, has had ZERO issues with reliability. Continuous uptime, no outages. Very happy.

Re: DigitalOcean Raises $83M in Series B Funding

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Post by astrodust »

corford wrote: post #152
EugeneOZ wrote: post #104

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If we talk about DO in comparison, then DO's interface is just ugly and almost unusable. Every time I use it, I want to leave their site as soon as possible.

I wouldn't call DO's interface ugly but I hugely prefer Linode's. Much better visual feedback and it feels like a solid management console rather than a pretty toy.

Why does Linode look "serious" and Digital Ocean look "toy"? It's a phenomenon I see happening primarily in the tech industry where ugly trumps functional and clean. People like the complexity aesthetic, the rugged, rough edges.

Re: DigitalOcean Raises $83M in Series B Funding

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Post by jlgaddis »

brianwawok wrote: post #54
CoachRufus87 wrote: post #45

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Would you consider that to be a big enough risk to not deploy production apps in their environment? I.e. having your app on 1 droplet and a dedicated db on another. I'm new to ops and trying to learn all that I can :)

I do this in prod, you just need to take extra steps to protect. i.e. make a firewall rule on the database to only allow access to the database port on your private network card, from your specific web IPs (and make sure the traffic is encrypted).

I'd probably create static ARP entries as well.

Re: DigitalOcean Raises $83M in Series B Funding

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Post by corford »

astrodust wrote: post #183
corford wrote: post #152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wouldn't call DO's interface ugly but I hugely prefer Linode's. Much better visual feedback and it feels like a solid management console rather than a pretty toy.

Why does Linode look "serious" and Digital Ocean look "toy"? It's a phenomenon I see happening primarily in the tech industry where ugly trumps functional and clean. People like the complexity aesthetic, the rugged, rough edges.

I suppose a lot of engineers prefer function over form rather than the other way around. If anything I'm suspicious when a tech/engineer focussed product prioritises aesthetics over function. Might be irrational but it's my first reaction.

Re: DigitalOcean Raises $83M in Series B Funding

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Post by r0naa »

nailer wrote: post #70
r0naa wrote: post #67

I love DO, they are doing great work. The only thing I regret is the relatively poor choice of platforms they support. For example, there have been a really big demand for NixOS for two years now but still no announcement whatsoever.

Really? Do you have some stats on NixOS growth to support that?

https://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digitalocea...

One of the highest voted customer feedback on their official forum.

Re: DigitalOcean Raises $83M in Series B Funding

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Post by [deleted] »

nailer wrote: post #70
r0naa wrote: post #67

I love DO, they are doing great work. The only thing I regret is the relatively poor choice of platforms they support. For example, there have been a really big demand for NixOS for two years now but still no announcement whatsoever.

Really? Do you have some stats on NixOS growth to support that?

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Re: DigitalOcean Raises $83M in Series B Funding

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Post by kawsper »

daflip wrote: post #178
kawsper wrote: post #74

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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…

When was the last time you added a node? New nodes default to 'automatic' networking now which configures /etc/network/interfaces automatically

I scale up and down weekly. I didn't know about that, I will look into it, do I just need to add static networking to the node?

Re: DigitalOcean Raises $83M in Series B Funding

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Post by kawsper »

tomschlick wrote: post #161
kawsper wrote: post #74

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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

Oh that was hidden away, I have never seen that interface before, thanks!

Re: DigitalOcean Raises $83M in Series B Funding

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Post by EugeneOZ »

astrodust wrote: post #183
corford wrote: post #152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wouldn't call DO's interface ugly but I hugely prefer Linode's. Much better visual feedback and it feels like a solid management console rather than a pretty toy.

Why does Linode look "serious" and Digital Ocean look "toy"? It's a phenomenon I see happening primarily in the tech industry where ugly trumps functional and clean. People like the complexity aesthetic, the rugged, rough edges.

Try to open this link https://cloud.digitalocean.com/droplets and find current balance of your account. I can't understand why it's under "Settings". When I'm in the dashboard, I want to see as many controls as possible, not as minimal interface as possible.
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