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DigitalOcean Seeks $800M in Funding
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#52I hope they don't bet too much on AI, but I do think they deserve to grow more as a cloud provider, they need to focus strongly on following up on people's complaints about their existing services. I have seen many threads of people with complaints about their S3 compatible storage being very limited in its design, and potentially wildly insecure. If they are serous enough to be asking for roughly a billion dollars,…
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.
The problem is that their current capacity is literally full. They were running a highly profitable business for the last 2-3 years and recently switched up the strategy to build more datacenters to meet the ai demand.
I can see they want to do it as they are currently demand constrained.
Re: DigitalOcean Seeks $800M in Funding
#53Long are the days of DO being a super hoster imho. Hetzner and many other "cheap" clouds ate their breakfast and their reaction was pretty much zero. Still an awesome service and platform.. but no longer worth it price wise as it once was. Same with Vultr.. I guess at some point all investors just pressure these companies into price matching AWS and other pay-for-every-single-thing-ever companies.
I once saw Vultr as a cheaper DigitalOcean, but now they're super-expensive, too.
For the same money, I get 10x of RAM, storage and CPU with Hetzner or OVH.
They also have the extremely annoying practice where if you owe them as little as $3, they still automatically recharge your account $100.
Re: DigitalOcean Seeks $800M in Funding
#54I hope they don't bet too much on AI, but I do think they deserve to grow more as a cloud provider, they need to focus strongly on following up on people's complaints about their existing services. I have seen many threads of people with complaints about their S3 compatible storage being very limited in its design, and potentially wildly insecure. If they are serous enough to be asking for roughly a billion dollars,…
They occupy some weird middle ground where they've become too expensive for hobbyists but not good enough for enterprise use
Re: DigitalOcean Seeks $800M in Funding
#55I hope they don't bet too much on AI, but I do think they deserve to grow more as a cloud provider, they need to focus strongly on following up on people's complaints about their existing services. I have seen many threads of people with complaints about their S3 compatible storage being very limited in its design, and potentially wildly insecure. If they are serous enough to be asking for roughly a billion dollars,…
They occupy some weird middle ground where they've become too expensive for hobbyists but not good enough for enterprise use
> but not good enough for enterprise use
This goes back to my suggestion to strengthen their current offering instead of making a giant frankencloud. They're in an interesting unique position, if they play their cards right they could become a big player in the field, too many cards on AI might not be it though.
Re: DigitalOcean Seeks $800M in Funding
#56Earlier 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.
The problem is that their current capacity is literally full. They were running a highly profitable business for the last 2-3 years and recently switched up the strategy to build more datacenters to meet the ai demand. I can see they want to do it as they are currently demand constrained.
Update typo: Meant to say supply constrained
Re: DigitalOcean Seeks $800M in Funding
#57Long are the days of DO being a super hoster imho. Hetzner and many other "cheap" clouds ate their breakfast and their reaction was pretty much zero. Still an awesome service and platform.. but no longer worth it price wise as it once was. Same with Vultr.. I guess at some point all investors just pressure these companies into price matching AWS and other pay-for-every-single-thing-ever companies.
Vultr is pretty cool, but I was paying $10/mo for a 2 v-cores/2gb/55gb. I got a 'root server' with netcup and I'm now paying $11/mo for 4 cores/8gb/256gb nvm-e. Unfortunately the placement isn't what I hoped as it's in Virginia. I would've liked Singapore but the cost would be twice as much.
Re: DigitalOcean Seeks $800M in Funding
#58I just migrated my personal servers to Scaleway due the big EU migration that's happening. I did love using them as a service though, lovely interface and decent pricing. Back in the day we didn't have Claude but their documentation for setting up servers and implementing services was super useful. Wish them well in raising money. For many personal uses something like AWS is a bit too sophisticated when you just want…
Scaleway is a huge abuse platform, the same IPs on their network continue day after day to blast out login and bruteforce attempts. Drop their ranges and suddenly your logs get a lot quieter with no user facing impacts.
Re: DigitalOcean Seeks $800M in Funding
#59Re: DigitalOcean Seeks $800M in Funding
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
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).
Worst job interview or worst experience overall ?
Both, easily.