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Re: Digital Ocean Managed Databases

#21

Post by joering2 »

tnolet wrote: post #14

Just started using the new Kubernetes offering on Digital Ocean. Still in Beta but works pretty good. If this is a sign for how they will do databases, I'm all ears. Add CI/CD and you have a Heroku competitor.

Glad you are having fun working on your after hours side project with DO. But please DO NOT host with DO if you plan to run a real production systems, build a company, hire people etc. I have never found a better company to spun off a server and play with some settings but when their algorithm decides there is something fishy, bye bye your account, servers, backups, you never going to see any of this ever again.

The last startup I heavily pushed with switching to OVH or even Rackspace was exact sample of what happens when DO algorithm decides you are not genuine. That's it. No explanation, no phone number to call, nothing. These people blindly decided to believe their algorithm and never wanted even discuss resuming the account or even get us backup of data. There was nothing shady going on I assure you. Funny part is as of today DigitalOcean is still in violation of GPPR, as we have requested to hopefully find out what was wrong with our account by filing request for info. Nope, zit, nada, totally ignored. We have filed complain with proper authority and also notified Attorney General in NY and continue await result.

Build all you want on DigitalOcean, but please understand not people but their weird algorithm is in charge of the future of your startup, future of your company and future salary or lack therefore when you are forced to fire team of people because you fall behind with payroll. In other words: be warned and build at your own risk.

Re: Digital Ocean Managed Databases

#23

Post by brightball »

Sweet mother!

#1 thing you can do to make this compete with RDS and Cloud SQL would be to support extensions out there that they don’t. HypoPG needed by Dexter, pg_partman, etc. Lack of certain extensions is the biggest failing of those offerings IMO.

Re: Digital Ocean Managed Databases

#24

Post by whitepoplar »

joering2 wrote: post #21
tnolet wrote: post #14

Just started using the new Kubernetes offering on Digital Ocean. Still in Beta but works pretty good. If this is a sign for how they will do databases, I'm all ears. Add CI/CD and you have a Heroku competitor.

Glad you are having fun working on your after hours side project with DO. But please DO NOT host with DO if you plan to run a real production systems, build a company, hire people etc. I have never found a better company to spun off a server and play with some settings but when their algorithm decides there is something fishy, bye bye your account, servers, backups, you never going to see any of this ever again. The…

This is frightening. Can anyone from DO chime in?

Re: Digital Ocean Managed Databases

#25

Post by tnolet »

joering2 wrote: post #21
tnolet wrote: post #14

Just started using the new Kubernetes offering on Digital Ocean. Still in Beta but works pretty good. If this is a sign for how they will do databases, I'm all ears. Add CI/CD and you have a Heroku competitor.

Glad you are having fun working on your after hours side project with DO. But please DO NOT host with DO if you plan to run a real production systems, build a company, hire people etc. I have never found a better company to spun off a server and play with some settings but when their algorithm decides there is something fishy, bye bye your account, servers, backups, you never going to see any of this ever again. The…

This sounds terrible. I never had any issues with DO. They actually refunded me once when I actually made a mistake. Would love to hear the DO side on this.

Re: Digital Ocean Managed Databases

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Post by doh »

brightball wrote: post #23

Sweet mother! #1 thing you can do to make this compete with RDS and Cloud SQL would be to support extensions out there that they don’t. HypoPG needed by Dexter, pg_partman, etc. Lack of certain extensions is the biggest failing of those offerings IMO.

I believe most of those are offered by Citus Cloud [0]. I know it's not the same, but you can spin just a single worker and essentially end with a faster PG than the vanilla PG.

[0] https://www.citusdata.com/product/cloud

Re: Digital Ocean Managed Databases

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Post by drej »

Excellent, I've just finished setting up a Postgres instance on a DO Droplet. I hope they still allow SSH into the instance, so that I can load data directly from there.

By the way this comes just a week after AWS Lightsail started offering the same. Excellent stuff. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-managed-databases-for-a...

Re: Digital Ocean Managed Databases

#29

Post by esistgut »

joering2 wrote: post #21
tnolet wrote: post #14

Just started using the new Kubernetes offering on Digital Ocean. Still in Beta but works pretty good. If this is a sign for how they will do databases, I'm all ears. Add CI/CD and you have a Heroku competitor.

Glad you are having fun working on your after hours side project with DO. But please DO NOT host with DO if you plan to run a real production systems, build a company, hire people etc. I have never found a better company to spun off a server and play with some settings but when their algorithm decides there is something fishy, bye bye your account, servers, backups, you never going to see any of this ever again. The…

Our team is currently migrating our whole production system from Linode and GCP to Digital Ocean. Your comment is raising warnings, I'd like to hear more from DO itself.
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