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DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M From Andreessen Horowitz to Take on AWS

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Re: DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M From Andreessen Horowitz to Take on AWS

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Post by radioact1ve »

jnsaff2 wrote: post #64
bananas wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah noticed that as well. First thing I do is (on debian), update packages and the kernel, install ufw (allow only 22), fail2ban, postfix and logwatch. Then setup a non privileged user, sudo, turn of root ssh and password auth and move to key based auth. Then I can sleep/configure the rest of the system. Been meaning to package this all up in an ansible playbook but I can't be bothered :( I'd be using FreeBSD if the…

It took me about an hour to put all of this into an ansible playbook. I think there are couple of examples out on blogs about this as well. If there is interest I'll share my playbook. Writing this playbook paid off already for the second installation of the box.

Don't mind me, I'll just wait here till you're ready.

Re: DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M From Andreessen Horowitz to Take on AWS

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Post by noir_lord »

zerop wrote: post #27

I use linode and was drawing comparisons between two: 1. 8 cores on linode is what binds me to it. Linode rules here 2. Digital ocean is cheaper than linode 3. More Network transfer in linode (minimum 2TB) 4. Digital ocean offers more RAM 5. Private network - Does not exist on Linode. Shame. DO Rules.. What else...

Rocksteady reliability, I've had zero unplanned downtime on Linode over 2-12 nodes in 5 years.

DO had lots of hiccups with it's networking when I tried them (though was over a year ago so ymmv).

Everything I have on Linode earns me money in one way or another so they pay for themselves, I currently have 3 nodes for a total of $60 bucks a month, DO I could do the same for $15 but really $45 a month is nothing compared to the cost of a machine going down even briefly (even if it takes me an hour to fix, I bill more than that).

For me Linode hits the sweetspot of price/reliability.

Re: DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M From Andreessen Horowitz to Take on AWS

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Post by hangonhn »

fuzzix wrote: post #75
bananas wrote: post #14

Adding to the commentary on here with something not so gushing: * kernels lag terribly behind the distributions meaning you're wide open sometimes. * can't resize or add storage * no freebsd support or custom kernels * VM availability problems. If you want to have another box, you aren't guaranteed to get one. * no IPv6 * somewhat shonky security reputation. * cant deliver to yahoo mail from their AMS2 IPs I've been…

Don't write about the owner's golf buddies either. https://vpsexperience.wordpress.com/ An odd experience, I would say.

Can someone verify this story? It sounds pretty convincing with screenshots and all. If it's true I'm taking my business else where.

Re: DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M From Andreessen Horowitz to Take on AWS

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Post by OWaz »

jnsaff2 wrote: post #64
bananas wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah noticed that as well. First thing I do is (on debian), update packages and the kernel, install ufw (allow only 22), fail2ban, postfix and logwatch. Then setup a non privileged user, sudo, turn of root ssh and password auth and move to key based auth. Then I can sleep/configure the rest of the system. Been meaning to package this all up in an ansible playbook but I can't be bothered :( I'd be using FreeBSD if the…

It took me about an hour to put all of this into an ansible playbook. I think there are couple of examples out on blogs about this as well. If there is interest I'll share my playbook. Writing this playbook paid off already for the second installation of the box.

The most I know about securing a Linux vps I picked up from this: http://feross.org/how-to-setup-your-linode/ . If there is an ultimate resource on how to start securing a *nix vps then please do let me know. If I knew what to search for I could but a lot of this is unknown unknowns to me.

Re: DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M From Andreessen Horowitz to Take on AWS

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Post by jackowayed »

nissimk wrote: post #66

If you can scale your system using only 0.5 GB per node, you get more cpu per dollar since the 5$ and 10$ levels both have 1 cpu. Higher levels seem to be multiples of the 10$ level. Does anyone have experience with this in a production system with a lot of users? Are there horizontally scalable database systems that work well on many nodes with only 512MB each?

Most DB systems will be tremendously helped by having far more RAM than that to cache, and also usually by having fewer nodes than you get when only having 20GB total disk space per node.

The main place where I could see this being appealing would be complex analytic jobs (since they're more CPU-intensive), but even so, if on 512MB nodes it has to spill to disk because there isn't enough RAM (or transmit a bunch of data across the network because it split the job over two nodes) and on a bigger machine it didn't need to, you probably would have been better off with the bigger machine.

Re: DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M From Andreessen Horowitz to Take on AWS

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Post by toomuchtodo »

recmend wrote: post #30

We run our infrastructure on both AWS and DigitalOcean. 1) DO consistently beats the price performance. 2) DO has simple pricing model --> No ondemand / reserved instances 3) AWS is more feature rich but DO continues to add new functionalities like private networking and new data centers

Comparing DO to AWS is extremely disingenuous unless you're only comparing compute per $. Running in AWS, we get access to unlimited storage through S3, EBS volumes we can move between instances, a CDN, etc.

Digital Ocean is like the place with a bunch of servers in the garage. Yes, its cheap. No, I would not trust it to run my business.

I'm very interested to see how they think they can compete with AWS, considering Amazon's cost to acquire equipment and their AWS software engineering team.

Re: DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M From Andreessen Horowitz to Take on AWS

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Post by madsushi »

bananas wrote: post #14

Adding to the commentary on here with something not so gushing: * kernels lag terribly behind the distributions meaning you're wide open sometimes. * can't resize or add storage * no freebsd support or custom kernels * VM availability problems. If you want to have another box, you aren't guaranteed to get one. * no IPv6 * somewhat shonky security reputation. * cant deliver to yahoo mail from their AMS2 IPs I've been…

* only have the option of 1 IP address per droplet (no plans to change)

Re: DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M From Andreessen Horowitz to Take on AWS

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Post by rschmitty »

hangonhn wrote: post #83
fuzzix wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't write about the owner's golf buddies either. https://vpsexperience.wordpress.com/ An odd experience, I would say.

Can someone verify this story? It sounds pretty convincing with screenshots and all. If it's true I'm taking my business else where.

Seems very odd that both a "Googler" and a VPS provider would be naive enough to think that telling someone to delete a blog post "OR ELSE" would result in anything but the pasting of the content everywhere under the sun outside of google/DO's control to spread the word on how evil they were.

I guess it could happen, but wow.. its like trying to get Beyonce derp face or whatever meme removed from the internet

Re: DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M From Andreessen Horowitz to Take on AWS

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Post by puppetmaster3 »

I use them for remote DC's (assia, EU, etc.) at $5 each.

Only their billing is a hot mess, mostly because they think it works and their customers are wrongly entering the CC #. For 4 months now, same problem and they have off-shore support that reads scripted answers. They just read the closest answer related to billing.

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