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Re: Best Alternative to DigitalOcean?

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Post by BartBoch »

whb07 wrote: post #11
codegeek wrote: post #6

You can look at https://vultr.com I use both vultr and DO and they are very comparable. Vultr customer service has been decent and their pricing is competitive.

I like them as well. Some locations offer even a $5 instance/month. Very responsive and intuitive UI as well.

I think 2 locations (NJ and Florida?) have $2,5 servers also. Support is worse to what it was (I think it is outsourced, at least some of it), but still ok-ish.

Re: Best Alternative to DigitalOcean?

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Post by givehimagun »

croo wrote: post #29

https://www.ramnode.com/ I had a small vpn for 2 years with zero downtime. Cheap too. Servers are in the Netherlands and several places in the USA.

Man - I don't know if they are a small company or a large corporation...but I've been with them for 5 years and I can't remember a single time it was slow/had problems/flickered a monitor/anything.

It was rock solid when I was learning Chef and provisioning 5-7 small servers on/off to learn how devops and microservices would work. I remember $1/month instances ($3/quarter).

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Post by vram22 »

shanecleveland wrote: post #34

I'm pretty happy with webfaction.com. Been using them for many years. Easy and continually upgrade plans and offerings.

By upgrade, do you mean they offer more features or resources later, for the same price for which you were getting less of the same, earlier?

Re: Best Alternative to DigitalOcean?

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Post by shanecleveland »

shanecleveland wrote: post #34

I'm pretty happy with webfaction.com. Been using them for many years. Easy and continually upgrade plans and offerings.

Right. Will occasionally see increases in space, memory, bandwidth, etc., within existing plans. They have also expanded offerings available.

Re: Best Alternative to DigitalOcean?

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Post by justinclift »

jjeaff wrote: post #27
justinclift wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a data point, Scaleway's responsiveness to things doesn't seem all that great. Saying that as a new-ish (only a few months) user to them. For example, their CentOS 7 ARM7 images come with a bug that stops yum from updating correctly. This is a simple PR to fix the problem, yet hasn't even been looked at in the month since it was created: https://github.com/scaleway/image-centos/pull/26 That aside though, the hardw…

I've used scaleway for a while for small projects. And lately, every single instance size shows out of stock. I shut down and instance and couldn't start it back up due to their being no available instances. Not exactly confidence inspiring.

They seem to be out of instances/space in their Amsterdam data centre whenever I've looked over the last few weeks.

Their Paris data centre though generally seems to have a few instances spare of things. Not sure if you checked both locations? :)

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