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TechStars Graduate DigitalOcean Switches To SSD For Its $5 Per Month VPS

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Re: TechStars Graduate DigitalOcean Switches To SSD For Its $5 Per Month VPS

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Post by zagi »

ck2 wrote: post #13
raiyu wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also true of regular harddrives, just the nature of the game when technically all of the harddrives are under the same load due to RAID and even with different manufacturing times the loads are the same so it's hard to estimate how far apart the batches should be in order to really minimize the incidence of such events. We do provide snapshots and backups and always recommend that customers backup their servers and t…

The MTBF for SSD in a server environment is two to three years maximum though. (just ask someone on OVH)

We've seen a high failure rate on SSD compared to SAS & SATA drives. All of our servers are in a RAID environment, so a single failure does not take the system offline. Additionally our backups and snapshots provide another level of redundancy against disk failure. So far no data loss.

Re: TechStars Graduate DigitalOcean Switches To SSD For Its $5 Per Month VPS

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Post by raiyu »

sirn wrote: post #18
raiyu wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We are figuring out what the soft cap will be based on our customers usage and averaging that out, right now we are considering something in the 2TB-5TB range. Honestly we just didn't prioritize traffic accounting as other features were a priority =]

Thanks, that's nice to know. I wish there would be some mention of soft cap somewhere in the website, though.

We're big on listening to customer feedback so we're going to address that issue sooner rather than later. =]

When bandwidth pricing is introduced it will be in line with the pricing that we have for SSD/512MB servers so it will still be one of the lowest in the industry, that much is guaranteed.

Re: TechStars Graduate DigitalOcean Switches To SSD For Its $5 Per Month VPS

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Post by sirn »

raiyu wrote: post #22
sirn wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks, that's nice to know. I wish there would be some mention of soft cap somewhere in the website, though.

We're big on listening to customer feedback so we're going to address that issue sooner rather than later. =] When bandwidth pricing is introduced it will be in line with the pricing that we have for SSD/512MB servers so it will still be one of the lowest in the industry, that much is guaranteed.

Thank you for being so transparent. I'm impressed at how easy it is to spin up a new VPS and network link from Bangkok to your New York data center isn't very bad either. :)

Great job!

Re: TechStars Graduate DigitalOcean Switches To SSD For Its $5 Per Month VPS

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Post by zagi »

driverdan wrote: post #24

Any plans for adding SAN / additional storage space? It'd be nice to have 20GB SSD + 1TB non-SSD.

It is one of our most up-voted features and we will begin building out storage solutions this month now that our SSD/RAM upgrades are finished.

We are still deciding whether to roll out first some sort of block/tiered NFS storage that can be mounted or something API driven like S3, so feedback is welcome.

Re: TechStars Graduate DigitalOcean Switches To SSD For Its $5 Per Month VPS

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Post by jws »

Tempting, but no IPv6. That's a deal breaker for infrastructure. I don't want to have to revisit machines later.

I'm also a little nervous about the unlimited bandwidth. That seems like it will attract bulk data movers that could affect my traffic. There is no mention of fairness, link utilization, or any kind of traffic allocation policy. I could benchmark it today, but that doesn't help me tomorrow.

Still, interesting enough to add to the list of options with the next project.

Re: TechStars Graduate DigitalOcean Switches To SSD For Its $5 Per Month VPS

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Post by specto »

mitchwainer wrote: post #6
nachteilig wrote: post #4

Great pricing, but it doesn't give me a lot of confidence in their service when it can't survive being linked from TC.

We are back online. We are spinning up thousands of servers right now. Would love for you to give us a shot. Here is a $20 credit coupon - "SSDBEAR20" Let me know what you think.

How do you use this once you have an account?

Re: TechStars Graduate DigitalOcean Switches To SSD For Its $5 Per Month VPS

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Post by gtaylor »

jws wrote: post #26

Tempting, but no IPv6. That's a deal breaker for infrastructure. I don't want to have to revisit machines later. I'm also a little nervous about the unlimited bandwidth. That seems like it will attract bulk data movers that could affect my traffic. There is no mention of fairness, link utilization, or any kind of traffic allocation policy. I could benchmark it today, but that doesn't help me tomorrow. Still, interest…

For work stuff, I have to agree. For play/hobby stuff, I could see jumping on this the next time I need a VM for experimentation.

Excellent work, DigitalOcean!

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