As a long time paying customer of DO, I don't know how I feel about this. I've been unbelievably happy with the products I rely on (App Platform and Managed Postgres). I worry this is an attempt to play catch up in the AI space and everything else will lose focus.
DigitalOcean Seeks $800M in Funding
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#22What's the DigitalOcean of Europe, where I can get API-based provisioning for VPSes?
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#23What's the DigitalOcean of Europe, where I can get API-based provisioning for VPSes?
Why isn't DigitalOcean the DigitalOcean of Europe?
Regardless, I believe you can provision VPS on Hetzner Cloud via their API.
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#24Don't risk or trust DigitalOcean with production grade stuff, it disappears and doesn't get fixed and the support stops responding or escalating when their own information clearly outlines the gaps that have occurred in their systems.
I don't trust any of the cloud providers enough to store a single copy of important data. I always have backups go to two separate S3 style endpoints in different providers, and my infrastructure is setup with scripts of some sort.
I've run production setups on DO for 12 or 13 years now though. My last company, after it was acquired, was forced into Azure. Both stability and performance tanked, while spending a little over 2x compared to what it was in DO.
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#25What's the DigitalOcean of Europe, where I can get API-based provisioning for VPSes?
scaleway?
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#26I hope they don't bet too much on AI, but I do think they deserve to grow more as a cloud provider, they need to focus strongly on following up on people's complaints about their existing services. I have seen many threads of people with complaints about their S3 compatible storage being very limited in its design, and potentially wildly insecure. If they are serous enough to be asking for roughly a billion dollars,…
I hope they don't bet too much on AI
Based on DO's monthly newsletters, all it cares about anymore is AI.
I don't think its written a single bullet point in two years that wasn't about AI.
It's as if some wave of amnesia came over DO and it forgot it has thousands of existing customers who are not AI wantrapreneurs.
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#27As a long time paying customer of DO, I don't know how I feel about this. I've been unbelievably happy with the products I rely on (App Platform and Managed Postgres). I worry this is an attempt to play catch up in the AI space and everything else will lose focus.
Adapt or die
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#28I've been a loyal digital ocean customer for years, I switched away from Linode way back when (for reasons I don't even remember.) I'm extremely happy with the DO service, so here's to hoping they don't screw it all up!!
yeah it's because Linode was more expensive and it had some security incidents
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#29Just to share something positive, I've had a ttrss instance running forever on digitalocean in NY. I like them for side projects too. $ uptime 16:06:14 up 2802 days, 15:03, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.05 $ uname -a Linux myinstance 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.65-1+deb7u1 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Used to have a dual atom box in NYC that had over 3000 days of uptime. The hard drive died and they messaged me saying I had the last atom box in their datacenter. They gave me a dual e5 with 64gb ram for the original price of my 2gb atom box. This is how you generate loyalty. I will never leave them.
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#30I love DigitalOcean to the point where I actually applied for a job there[0]. The UI is leagues better than AWS and there are really useful API endpoints to control common things. I've been a paying customer for something like 12 years and I've never had an issue. [0] They never got back to me, sadly.
Their interview process sucks. They expect PhD-level experience for basic cloud operations. And since they started outsourcing to Hyderabad, they’ve gotten even worse.
'phd level experience' generally means 'very little real-world practical experience' lol