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Re: $250k of DigitalOcean credits for YC startups

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Post by ewindisch » Sun, Feb 07, 2016, 3:17 AM UTC

ewindisch wrote: post #79

geoka9 wrote: post #67

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"Deploy a Linux VM on Azure. Azure supports a wide range of Linux distributions including Ubuntu, CentOS, Oracle Linux, Chef and Puppet." Doesn't sound very reassuring. Do they have a good track record with non-MS stacks?

My experience has been positive. Their team has been doing good work. For example, Azure had the first/best Docker integration of all the cloud providers. What they had was superseded by docker-machine and swarm eventually, but they were definitely thinking ahead of the curve. As a user of Azure, I admit that find some aspects of the service unusual, such as requiring users to pick a globally-unique identifier for ev…

Update: I just noticed that in the past few months, Azure has eliminated this weird DNS thing with the introduction of a revised API and are phasing out the old service as "classic". I'm actually looking at moving some of my infra (containers) to Azure with their Bizspark program which offers a $750/mo credit for startups.

Re: $250k of DigitalOcean credits for YC startups

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Post by cddotdotslash » Sun, Feb 07, 2016, 7:02 AM UTC

andrewthetechie wrote: post #218

dayon wrote: post #146

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I was about to post this. My project received a DDOS, and I could not access my droplet for over 12 hours.

Just to clarify, DigitalOcean does not offer any form of DoS mitigation services so they blackhole during a DoS. Its for 3 hours, a lot less than other providers. If you've got a DoS issue, you definitely need a 3rd party DoS protection service. Cloudflare free works pretty well

It's not "a lot less than other providers". You know what happens when someone starts DDOSing one of my AWS servers? I get a CloudWatch alert saying "high inbound traffic" and that's it. They don't black hole the thing and cut off all traffic. Then, I can log in, see what's happening, and take my time diagnosing the problem. Even under a fairly heavy DDOS I never feared losing access. With DO, the black hole happens before the email alert. It's a terrible policy and I can't use or recommend DO until it's changed. I can't stick CloudFlare in front of every server I own.

Re: $250k of DigitalOcean credits for YC startups

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Post by blaines » Sun, Feb 07, 2016, 8:23 PM UTC

manigandham wrote: post #219

curun1r wrote: post #24

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Unfortunately, all of these require that you be part of some accelerator or receive VC funding before you can take advantage of the discounts. Founders trying to bootstrap a company without external funding are SOL. It strikes me that these cloud hosting companies are really interested in businesses that value growth above profits and are willing to ignore startups who try to manage costs to get to profitability more…

That's absolutely not true. All of these providers have multiple levels. There's a cheap option of usually a few hundred or thousand then the upscale option with 5 or 6 figures over a year. We got into higher tier AWS Activate for $25k/year by just asking. Then we worked with a MS Azure evangelist to get us into the $120k/year program. We would've made it but declined because we asked Softlayer and they gave us $120k…

Who exactly at AWS were you asking? I talked to people at the AWS loft a few times and they said there was nothing they could do for our startup.