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DigitalOcean Seeks $800M in Funding

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Re: DigitalOcean Seeks $800M in Funding

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Post by leejoramo »

grepfru_it wrote: post #29
neko_ranger wrote: post #8

Just 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.

In the late 90s, I leased Cobalt RAQ servers from RackSpace. During this time, RackSpace had exceptional customer service. I could call support and be connected with a skilled Unix SysAdmin within minutes. Even though I was responsible for the entire system, the would happily login to the system and advise me how how to deal with any issues.

After about 5 years, I called to shutdown my last Cobalt server. A week later, they called to ask if they could ship me server. No Cost

Turns out it was the last of the Colbalt RAQs and the oldest server in their fleet

Re: DigitalOcean Seeks $800M in Funding

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Post by dgxyz »

comrade1234 wrote: post #42

No one else is blocking at the firewall digital ocean ips? It got so bad that at one point I started looking up non-us digital ocean ip ranges and blocking entire ranges/countries. And I ended up blocking a lot of USA ranges too.

We are. Most of our attack traffic is from DO net blocks.

We’ve had integration partners actually move off them because we won’t allow connections.

Re: DigitalOcean Seeks $800M in Funding

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Post by nine_k »

bushbaba wrote: post #34
3pt14159 wrote: post #2

I 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.

The UI is simpler because the product is simpler. If all you want is 1-2 VMs in the cloud and to not think about the rest, its great. For any actual business that's moved from 'hobby'/'seed' phase, its not the right platform.

For great many businesses way past the "hobby" stage, a managed DB + managed queue + managed cache + a few VMs under managed k8s + serverless functions is plenty enough. Given a right architecture, this could serve a million paying customers. When you have more, you usually have the resources to consider a more elaborate setup.

I'd say that for most businesses 3-4 VMs, or a couple of bare metal boxes, is already enough, unless they grow explosively.

Re: DigitalOcean Seeks $800M in Funding

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Post by giancarlostoro »

nine_k wrote: post #36
reaperducer wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Come on, this is plain wrong, fortunately. I'm subscribed to the DO newsletter; let me skim the archive. What they introduced in the last couple of years was: per-second billing, various identity providers for their SSO, managed Postgres upgrades, storage autoscaling, a NAT gateway, "bring your ow IP", etc. Yes, they do actively build out their GPU offerings, and access to open-weight models, but it's by far not the…

There's a lot of AI fatigue to be fair, so its very easy to overlook the non-AI things too.

Re: DigitalOcean Seeks $800M in Funding

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Post by impulser_ »

For those who haven't been keeping up with DigitalOcean. They are done with the "Developer Cloud" and now are trying to become another enterprise similar to AWS, GCP and Azure.

They were very debt heavy before the AI boom, and are just going to make it worst because I'm assuming they aren't raising 800m to pay of that debt.

You should definitely take that into account if you are or plan on using them.

This is not a well ran company.

Re: DigitalOcean Seeks $800M in Funding

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Post by reaperducer »

nine_k wrote: post #36
reaperducer wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Come on, this is plain wrong, fortunately. I'm subscribed to the DO newsletter; let me skim the archive. What they introduced in the last couple of years was: per-second billing, various identity providers for their SSO, managed Postgres upgrades, storage autoscaling, a NAT gateway, "bring your ow IP", etc. Yes, they do actively build out their GPU offerings, and access to open-weight models, but it's by far not the…

Come on, this is plain wrong, fortunately.

DigitalOcean newsletter for March 20,2026:

- Deploy 2026: The Production Inference Era

- DigitalOcean at NVIDIA GTC 2026: Building the AI Factory for the Agentic Era

- The Proven Home for AI Agents

- The Richmond Data Center: Our newest facility engineered exclusively for AI, featuring NVIDIA HGX B300 systems and a 400 Gbps non-blocking RDMA fabric.

- Frictionless NVIDIA Partnership

- Expanded Model Catalog

- 1 click NemoClaw (Alpha) Droplet

- Network File Storage standard tier and expanded availability

7 AI items. One non-AI item. I stand by my comment.

Re: DigitalOcean Seeks $800M in Funding

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Post by [deleted] »

simonebrunozzi wrote: post #6
3pt14159 wrote: post #2

I 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.

I had a job interview with one of the founders. The whole process was, by far, the worst experience I ever had in my life, and a complete waste of my time. (I interviewed for maybe 25-30 jobs in my life overall).

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