Happy Do customer, really nothing bad to say about them (yet). Been with them for couple of months now. Reminds me of slicehost, but with much much better price.
The Meteoric Rise of DigitalOcean
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#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Greek root actually means 'lofty'. I love etymology: http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-met1.htm
Hence why the term "meteorology" refers to the study of the weather than the study of meteors.
And a "meteor" is something that's "suspended in the heavens".
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#63Has the quality of their billing system risen, too?
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#64Does anybody know if they offer anything equivalent to HOSTNAME.herokuapp.com? I'm just testing them now, and I'm not ready to point a real domain at them yet.
Do you not have a domain of any sort? It would seem trivial to point TESTAPP.degachevdomain.com to the IP address of the server. Else, just go to the IP.
I have a bunch of domains, but I'm using DO for temporary apps, and would like the DNS records to be automatically created/destroyed along with the droplets.
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#66I've been on DO for several months now and love them. And as far as reliability, I've had binarycanary pointed at my sites for about a month now with one outage that lasted about a minute and then resolved itself. To me, for the price/benefits, that's amazing. One other thing people rarely mention with hosting, that's SUPER important to me, are the FAQs/Docs, and DO really comes through in that area imo.
Hi Garraeth!
Thank so much for the shoutout about the docs. We are very focused on building up our developer community (with our IRC channel #digitalocean, forum, and tutorials) and growing as an educational resource. If you ever have any additional article requests, please feel free to send them to etel@digitalocean.com
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#67Given how cheap the price is, I don't think they have a sustainable business model. As far as I can see, there is nothing technically different from their model that allows their service to benefit from any type of economies (of scale/scope) in order to stay competitive. So then my overall question is - how can they offer better service and better hardware (i.e. more expensive) at a cheaper rate? I'm genuinely curiou…
I think the trick is (as it is with most vps providers), that most users, don't always use full memory and or full CPU usage, or even disk space. The full usage, if it ever happens usually happens in small bursts.
Most vps providers have a rule that you are not alowed to use 100% 24/7/365 or they can cancel your account (I don't know if this is true with DO). The trick is that if you have a lot of customers you can spread the cost on users who are not using full resources (which happens to be most users), at large scale you can make decent profit in this kind of setup, even if your revenue per account is low.
I didn't mention bandwidth because at DC level, BW is the least expensive component, but it is also true that most users will not use up 1TB per month.
Most of it is speculation from my part, and a bit from experience.
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#68I've been using DigitalOcean to host a GitLab instance for a while now (20GB Droplet) and it's been working great.
I ran into two small issues so far.
First of all, for some reason the traffic from my home connection is routed through New York (I'm in Europe using a Droplet in Amsterdam), resulting in a ~150ms RTT (I usually get 30-40ms to Amsterdam). Since this only happens with my home connection and it's fine in the office, my ISP might be the one to blame for this. Anyway, I've opened a ticket, so maybe they can fix it.
The other weird thing is how they hande kernels/kernel versions. You can't simply update your kernel through apt (or anything like that) - you have to select the kernel version from a gigantic drop-down (containing multiple kernel versions for every distribution you can run) in their UI. Plus, adding new kernels seems to be a manual process for them, since it takes a while until updated kernels become available.
I'm sure they're working on a better solution for that though. All in all, they offer great service for an even better price, so I'm happy with my choice.
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#69Given how cheap the price is, I don't think they have a sustainable business model. As far as I can see, there is nothing technically different from their model that allows their service to benefit from any type of economies (of scale/scope) in order to stay competitive. So then my overall question is - how can they offer better service and better hardware (i.e. more expensive) at a cheaper rate? I'm genuinely curiou…
I think the trick is (as it is with most vps providers), that most users, don't always use full memory and or full CPU usage, or even disk space. The full usage, if it ever happens usually happens in small bursts. Most vps providers have a rule that you are not alowed to use 100% 24/7/365 or they can cancel your account (I don't know if this is true with DO). The trick is that if you have a lot of customers you can s…
What you are describing is overselling, and I am under the impression that overselling is less possible with KVM, what DigitalOcean uses.
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#70Anyone know how many rails apps a $5 DO can handle? is a $5 DO = 1 heroku dyno?