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I was a bit panicked by the story and, I imagine like many, Was already thinking up migration strategies to communicate to the team in the morning.
The response given by the cofounder allows me to rest this weekend, and keeps me from harassing engineering staff while off.
Thanks.
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Moisey, big fan of yours, always have been. DO's board has been atrocious (not you and Ben). The way they handled bonuses even the years that we were growing 40+% because we missed #'s due to factors outside any employees control, was a joke. The hiring of Mark Templeton was one of the absolute worst things that could have happened, he damn near put DO on the brink of destruction. That said, it seems like Yancey is d…
I feel like a message like this is better sent by throw away email or something else that's private, than put in a public forum for all to see. What's the point exactly in putting all this ostensibly proprietary information out there, on HN? Is it benefiting anything to the conversation, aside from satisfying some people's curiosity? What's the intent here, why do you feel that this sort of post needs to be done publ…
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Satisfying people's curiosity improves the conversation, and calling someone out in the public square is a good way to create accountability that doesn't exist in private communication.
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Maybe instead of using expensive SSDs. A topology of many spanning disks in large ZFS clusters by using PCIe HDD controllers. Then link the machines via 10GBe could provide you the speed and performance you require require. I've set up a moderate size pool of 1Pb across 16 physical servers on 4 full size racks. This cost less than 50k. Electricity and cooling come from solar. Its the damn internet connection for peop…
> Its the damn internet connection for people to access it that is the cost killer. Nope. Any hosting provider will be located at a carrier neutral datacenter or the like. At any of these you will have access to low cost IP transit providers and Internet exchanges. You can buy 100G IP transit for $5k per month, so Internet cost isn't really an issue.
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Thanks for posting. I run browserless.io on DO, and want to keep it that way. Many have posted about about how they use DO for small projects, and I started that same way, but now it's the muscle behind a much bigger thing. Appreciate you chiming in.
Your service looks interesting. On your homepage, "Emoji's" shouldn't have an apostrophe; it should just be "Emojis". :)
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Thanks for posting. I run browserless.io on DO, and want to keep it that way. Many have posted about about how they use DO for small projects, and I started that same way, but now it's the muscle behind a much bigger thing. Appreciate you chiming in.
Been using Browserless for 1+ years and amazingly, have never had any issues with it. It just works. Support is awesome as well. I think you answer every single support email I've sent.
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Confused to see CEO of a big company just says the truth in simple terms. Did you pass that through legal? :) Thanks, yours, another loyal not-customer-support-harassing 5$/m DO customer.
Haha, thanks but I'm just a cofounder not the CEO, and no it didn't pass through legal =]
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Did they attempt to contact you in those 5 weeks? A lot of people seem willing to blame you without knowing the answer to this question. On a different note, this kind of thing is probably one of the top threats to the survivability of a cloud-powered site or service. Alongside vandalism by disgruntled (ex-)employees, I imagine it happens far more often than outages in cloud providers' infrastructure.
They did. My issue was the timing. They turned off the server and deleted everything, including the backups, in a single day. In contrast, I haven’t paid Dropbox for years and my data is all still there.
Everyone knows DO for their VPS but their object storage prices are some of the lowest. $0.02 per GB stored $0.01 per GB transferred. That includes CDN too. I haven't found a better deal anywhere. Even Blackblaze doesn't offer CDN (AFAIK).
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DigitalOcean has been instrumental in helping me transition from a college graduate into a professional developer who can build and design entire backends. Those 5$/mo droplets let me explore a lot of software and run proper production-like benchmarks for my own learning. Over time I moved a lot of my personal projects and infra over to DO (and started working on new ones now that I had a good provider to host them o…
Thank you for sharing. Our goal with DigitalOcean was always to help more people get involved with technology. The community team that is one of the pillars of DigitalOcean was built by Etel. She herself went through this transition. She graduated college with a liberal arts degree and was working as a bartender because she couldn't get another job. I gave her a book on programming and told her that if she figured it…
Thank you thank you thank you cloud providers for making compute power so cheap. I realize you do it because you know you will eventually make the money back 10000x over when we persuade our bosses to lock in to your ecosystem, but I don't care. (Capitalism is not perfect, but hey, sometimes it can be okay)
DO tutorials are amazing, by the way. I learned so many things from your docs, it shows a lot of hard work by some very talented people.
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Thank you for sharing. Our goal with DigitalOcean was always to help more people get involved with technology. The community team that is one of the pillars of DigitalOcean was built by Etel. She herself went through this transition. She graduated college with a liberal arts degree and was working as a bartender because she couldn't get another job. I gave her a book on programming and told her that if she figured it…
I was in a similar position not too long ago. I had nothing but a liberal arts degree, a miserable first career and a yawning resume gap. I just stumbled into coding and I was completely addicted. After many months cobbling together a frankenstinean tangle of Kubernetes clusters, db instances and even an AI that could write bad limericks, I got a job as a backend engineer. You have to work your tail off in this job b…
Programming in the 2010s and 2020s is kind of like union labor work back in the 1950 and 1960s: not instantaneous riches, but meaningful work that leads to a decent middle to upper class life.
Unfortunately, this won't last forever. Other countries are catching up to the U.S. quickly. Eventually, development will move to cheaper labor countries like so many other industries. What is frustrating though is that if the U.S. actually focused on developing its talent, we could maintain the lead for another decade or two longer than if we just sit on our hands. With that extra lead time, we could come up with the next major industry (AI-training? quantum computer programming?), but as it stands now, many other countries will be equally poised to jump on the next opportunity and we'll squander our lead forever.