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DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M From Andreessen Horowitz to Take on AWS

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Re: DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M From Andreessen Horowitz to Take on AWS

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Post by mimiflynn »

jnsaff2 wrote: post #64
bananas wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah noticed that as well. First thing I do is (on debian), update packages and the kernel, install ufw (allow only 22), fail2ban, postfix and logwatch. Then setup a non privileged user, sudo, turn of root ssh and password auth and move to key based auth. Then I can sleep/configure the rest of the system. Been meaning to package this all up in an ansible playbook but I can't be bothered :( I'd be using FreeBSD if the…

It took me about an hour to put all of this into an ansible playbook. I think there are couple of examples out on blogs about this as well. If there is interest I'll share my playbook. Writing this playbook paid off already for the second installation of the box.

yes please

Re: DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M From Andreessen Horowitz to Take on AWS

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Post by da_n »

Despite generally rock-solid performance and uptime, I had a bad experience with DO recently. After experiencing repeated hardware failures on a node (with lots of downtime), I followed the advise of their support and did a snapshot and destroy of the failing droplet and immediately attempted to create a new one from the snapshot. It failed to build. I then tried to build again from the automated backup they create when a droplet is destroyed, this also failed. Support just did not seem to understand the issue I was having, I kept getting canned responses about doing a snapshot then building a new droplet from the image, so I gave up.

The entire site had to be created again from backups on a different VPS provider. Surely their system should be able to migrate any droplets off failing nodes automatically, I mean hardware failures happen right?

Re: DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M From Andreessen Horowitz to Take on AWS

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Post by avenger123 »

cdelsolar wrote: post #144
arca_vorago wrote: post #22

I've been using DO for about 5 months now, and love it. I still host my main websites other places (dreamhost, who, despite some issues, has been consistent in improvement, and is fair in prices), and I use DO for stuff like mumble servers, a few games, as a ssh proxy from less secure locations, and as some as a shared shell with friends for various skullduggery and fun. Very impressed with DO's service and price, bu…

I just make a "Skeleton" instance that has all the hardening stuff already on it, then clone all my new machines off of this instance.

Any good guides for hardening Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?

Re: DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M From Andreessen Horowitz to Take on AWS

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Post by ekspreso »

bad_user wrote: post #125
z92 wrote: post #50

I am running these services in a $5/month DO droplet: dns [named], ntpd, httpd [apache], smtp [postfix], imap [dovecot], webmail [roundcube], vpn [pptpd]. It's taking 350MB off 500MB RAM. Now after adding getmail to back up gmail I am now wondering what more I can do with it.

I tried installing postfix/dovecot but couldn't do it. Any recent tutorials I could try?

I've always liked this one: https://workaround.org/ispmail/wheezy

And it's not for Debian only, I'm running it on Arch by following this tutorial.

Re: DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M From Andreessen Horowitz to Take on AWS

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Post by aedocw »

bananas wrote: post #14

Adding to the commentary on here with something not so gushing: * kernels lag terribly behind the distributions meaning you're wide open sometimes. * can't resize or add storage * no freebsd support or custom kernels * VM availability problems. If you want to have another box, you aren't guaranteed to get one. * no IPv6 * somewhat shonky security reputation. * cant deliver to yahoo mail from their AMS2 IPs I've been…

Regarding being potentially wide-open to exploits due to kernels being out of date, I would recommend installing ksplice uptrack (https://www.ksplice.com/). It allows you to apply kernel security updates without rebooting your machine. It's excellent, and I wouldn't consider running Ubuntu without it.

Re: DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M From Andreessen Horowitz to Take on AWS

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Post by chc »

hueving wrote: post #157
chc wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I kind of doubt this is about the golf angle so much as the creepy obsession the writer seems to have with this guy. Calling out some random Google employee and publishing his chat logs along with derogatory comments while seemingly looking to get him in trouble with his employer is harassment. I'm not sure why "Digital Ocean enforces its terms of service" is considered scandalous. (Full disclosure: My only relations…

>I kind of doubt this is about the golf angle so much as the creepy obsession the writer seems to have with this guy. Can you explain what you mean here? The blog owner appeared to be offended by the Googler's stance that he was taking in a public chatroom about Google policies so he blogged about it. How is that a creepy obsession?

People say things I don't like all the time. That doesn't mean I try to screencap off-the-cuff personal conversations, find their domain holdings, look up their home address through WHOIS and then create a blog to name and shame them. That is way beyond the pale.

Re: DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M From Andreessen Horowitz to Take on AWS

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Post by workhere-io »

bananas wrote: post #14

Adding to the commentary on here with something not so gushing: * kernels lag terribly behind the distributions meaning you're wide open sometimes. * can't resize or add storage * no freebsd support or custom kernels * VM availability problems. If you want to have another box, you aren't guaranteed to get one. * no IPv6 * somewhat shonky security reputation. * cant deliver to yahoo mail from their AMS2 IPs I've been…

I'm surprised you say that you pick them over Linode, because Linode seems to have the features you mentioned were missing at Digital Ocean.

Re: DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M From Andreessen Horowitz to Take on AWS

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Post by stevekemp »

raiyu wrote: post #188
ilaksh wrote: post #184

Its simple. It costs half as much as equivalent providers for their VPS. Or less than half in the case of AWS. And it actually works even though its so cheap. No matter how rich you are it just doesnt make sense to pay double or triple. The question is, do you really make money on $5 a month servers? I don't know if they actually are. The costs are for support people and now large numbers of engineers. The thing is w…

Thanks for the great question. We are actually profitable on every virtual server that we sell. The reason we raised our seed round is that our growth began to outstrip our ability to acquire hardware and grow the business at the rate at which our customers were spinning up more droplets. The second round that we raised was again for the same reason. Growth has been completely unbelievable and we are humbled by the s…

I see from your site you're hiring for various positions, but currently all of those are listed as NY only.

I spent seven happy years working remotely as a system administrator, for a company listed in some of these comments, and wonder if this is something you've ever considered?

I know that payment issues and similar might complicate things, but I'm surprised there seem to be essentially zero remote-working positions advertised for a company that will have round-the-world clients/users/customers. (i.e. You're liable to get issues, tickets, and monitoring alerts round the clock.)

Re: DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M From Andreessen Horowitz to Take on AWS

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Post by nolite »

jnsaff2 wrote: post #64
bananas wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah noticed that as well. First thing I do is (on debian), update packages and the kernel, install ufw (allow only 22), fail2ban, postfix and logwatch. Then setup a non privileged user, sudo, turn of root ssh and password auth and move to key based auth. Then I can sleep/configure the rest of the system. Been meaning to package this all up in an ansible playbook but I can't be bothered :( I'd be using FreeBSD if the…

It took me about an hour to put all of this into an ansible playbook. I think there are couple of examples out on blogs about this as well. If there is interest I'll share my playbook. Writing this playbook paid off already for the second installation of the box.

ditto

Re: DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M From Andreessen Horowitz to Take on AWS

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Post by [deleted] »

fredsted wrote: post #138
rschmitty wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is why I love having a static IP. sudo ufw allow from your.ip.addr to tcp port 22 Rest of the world doesnt know I have ssh up and if I'm ever in a hotel or something I can tunnel through my home or login to DO's panel and allow another ip

I could imagine this being quite dangerous, like being on holiday, there's a power outage, fire, ISP error, etc at home and no way to control your server.

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