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DigitalOcean Raises $83M in Series B Funding

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Re: DigitalOcean Raises $83M in Series B Funding

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Post by carbocation »

lsc wrote: post #48

hm. Interesting. From what I know of the industry, their size and pricing, I would have thought they would be profitable enough that raising this sort of money wouldn't be particularly interesting. Does this mean that they are operating at a loss?

There are many reasons to raise money. They may be operating at a loss but with growth in recurring revenue such that they expect to become profitable in a few years. But I wouldn't be surprised if they are raising this money to fuel an already growing fire, either by enhanced sales teams or even building out new capital projects that will open new revenue channels or create barriers to future competition.

Re: DigitalOcean Raises $83M in Series B Funding

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Post by angersock »

talloaktrees wrote: post #24
angersock wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would anybody be interested in esoteric hosting? Think Linode, but specifically for FreeBSD/OpenBSD/Plan9/TempleOS/MinuetOS/etc.?

TempleOS has no networking :)

Presumably it has serial drivers though, yes?

Re: DigitalOcean Raises $83M in Series B Funding

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Post by hibala »

seiji wrote: post #28
proksoup wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

DO's UX is a game changer, I personally think is why they have been so successful in what seemed like a crowded market with the "same" business model as the others.

Yeah, the simplicity is great. AWS has 80 products and it takes months to figure how how they all work together. DO's click-n-go for $5 month helps just from a mental clarity point of view. At this point AWS is so complicated they should be offering an official Cisco-like series of certifications.

well said! most of the AWS products are literally have minor diff. point and literally over complicating things. I feel they want to keep it that way.

Re: DigitalOcean Raises $83M in Series B Funding

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Post by brianwawok »

CoachRufus87 wrote: post #45
brianwawok wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any other digital ocean server in the same datacenter can hit your private IP.

Would you consider that to be a big enough risk to not deploy production apps in their environment? I.e. having your app on 1 droplet and a dedicated db on another. I'm new to ops and trying to learn all that I can :)

I do this in prod, you just need to take extra steps to protect. i.e. make a firewall rule on the database to only allow access to the database port on your private network card, from your specific web IPs (and make sure the traffic is encrypted).

Re: DigitalOcean Raises $83M in Series B Funding

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Post by username »

alberth wrote: post #46

Has anyone used Vultr.com? I ask because they have all the same features as DO + way more (e.g. dedicated hosting w/ same great panel, BYO ISO, etc).

I am also curious about this. The fact that Vultr accepts Bitcoin as payment further piques my interest. Can anyone shed some light on their performance and convenience vs. DigitalOcean?

Edit: Found this http://blog.due.io/2014/linode-digitalocean-and-vultr-compar..., which seems to portray it quite favorably.

Re: DigitalOcean Raises $83M in Series B Funding

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Post by wspeirs »

TodPunk wrote: post #16
gshakir wrote: post #13

If all goes well, looks like they might be competing directly with AWS soon.

AWS doesn't target the same audience or have the same product line. They're related, but not at all the same product market. To illustrate this, AWS is infrastructure management tools, and DO is infrastructure management. The fact that AWS has infrastructure management as well (built on top of their own tools) is only relevant for the people that build out the rest of their infrastructure. DO is for folks that don't…

> DO is closer to competing with just Elastic Beanstalk

Hu? DO is like EC2, a box on the net with an IP address. Elastic Beanstalk is a PaaS that will auto-scale for you.

Re: DigitalOcean Raises $83M in Series B Funding

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Post by brianwawok »

brianwawok wrote: post #38
gog wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is not how things work. Once your system resolves the DNS record it will keep using that record for a while (depending on the TTL of the record and other factors). Your browser will also cache the result of the DNS lookup, and if that server goes down it will not try to do another DNS lookup for another host and your service will be unavailable. It will also be unavailable for any new customer that gets the "fau…

TTL does not matter because I am not adding or removing systems from my DNS record. Even during an outage, a request to my domain name will return both the broken and the working load balancers. I am simply giving a list of servers that can answer a request.. clients know to keep trying till one works. (Which they all do. Try it!)

Thanks for the -1 on a true statement about my own hosting setup!

Re: DigitalOcean Raises $83M in Series B Funding

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Post by alberth »

username wrote: post #55
alberth wrote: post #46

Has anyone used Vultr.com? I ask because they have all the same features as DO + way more (e.g. dedicated hosting w/ same great panel, BYO ISO, etc).

I am also curious about this. The fact that Vultr accepts Bitcoin as payment further piques my interest. Can anyone shed some light on their performance and convenience vs. DigitalOcean? Edit: Found this http://blog.due.io/2014/linode-digitalocean-and-vultr-compar... , which seems to portray it quite favorably.

This doesn't compare against DO but it does compare performance against Rackspace and AWS.

https://www.vultr.com/benchmarks/

Re: DigitalOcean Raises $83M in Series B Funding

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Post by seunosewa »

astrodust wrote: post #44
dotBen wrote: post #14

DO has really benefitted from Linode stalling over the past few years. I admire Linode for remaining a bootstrapped business but it feels as though the owners lost their fighting spirit and energy... Perhaps because the small pool of Linode owners felt they made enough money already. DOs announment talks about a storage product, which is strategically important and crucially something Linode has sorely needed for a l…

For all the money Linode has on hand, and the size of their technical team, it's absolutely insulting they haven't made any tangible improvement to their management front-end in at least five years, if not more. The way it's behaving it's as if it was acquired and kept on life-support.

Perhaps users don't have any complaints about their management interface? Do you?

Perhaps users mostly want performance and value which have been greatly improved by their substantial infrastructure upgrades?

Re: DigitalOcean Raises $83M in Series B Funding

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Post by smackfu »

seunosewa wrote: post #59
astrodust wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For all the money Linode has on hand, and the size of their technical team, it's absolutely insulting they haven't made any tangible improvement to their management front-end in at least five years, if not more. The way it's behaving it's as if it was acquired and kept on life-support.

Perhaps users don't have any complaints about their management interface? Do you? Perhaps users mostly want performance and value which have been greatly improved by their substantial infrastructure upgrades?

Not doing regular improvements is how you end up being years behind your competitors, without even noticing it, and having to do a huge rewrite just to achieve parity.
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