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I am curious if there are any IOPS comparisons between DigitalOcean and real hardware (spinning disks)? Currently we run our Postgres instances on EC2, but are looking to move to get better IOPS. The question is: SSD-based VMs or real hardware? Cost is also a factor which is why DigitalOcean is a contender.
iops are available on serverbear http://serverbear.com/9806/digitalocean
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I want to like DigitalOcean but it seems their attitude to security is rather lax, see e.g. http://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digital-ocea... which they said they'd look at in February but haven't addressed.
This was resolved, thanks for highlighting it, need to get this uservoice entry updated. Also we launched two factor auth recently. We take security very seriously. Thanks
ECDSA key fingerprint is 97:d7:21:81:9b:77:34:bb:f1:8e:86:25:b0:47:6b:ff.
Also: -rw------- 1 root root 227 Apr 25 2012 ssh_host_ecdsa_key
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This was resolved, thanks for highlighting it, need to get this uservoice entry updated. Also we launched two factor auth recently. We take security very seriously. Thanks
It doesn't look resolved to me, check the key fingerprint on any Ubuntu 12.04 x64 server droplet: ECDSA key fingerprint is 97:d7:21:81:9b:77:34:bb:f1:8e:86:25:b0:47:6b:ff. Also: -rw------- 1 root root 227 Apr 25 2012 ssh_host_ecdsa_key
Of course, this would probably be true switching to a new VPS provider after a few years of being on the same box.
One thing that's unique to DO in this regard, though, is that their onboarding process is super smooth. I was up and running very quickly.
NewsBlur is mentioned in the article, but I cannot overstate how positive my experience with DigitalOcean has been. I'm stressing their biggest machines and spinning up dozens of differently configured boxes and they've handled it swimmingly well. Between the price and the performance differences, I'm glad I switched. I also have a shadow site running in parallel on EC2, so I get to compare dollar for dollar. EC2 is…
Given that I would prefer to keep using RDS, and the network latency etc., any thoughts/advise on how DO-RDS would perform compared to EC2-RDS, with everything being in N.CA/SF Zone and using comparable EC2/DO instances for running my app server?
Alternately, is there an easy way to benchmark RDS i/o from EC2 and DO, both running Linux which can help in making this decision.
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They lose my entire VPS too but I always think it's my job to backup my data (they have automatic backup, which costs a bit extra). And they did credit me for their fault so I think it's fair enough.
> (they have automatic backup, which costs a bit extra). They lost that as well in this case.
I've been very happy with my testing on Digital Ocean; the servers are fast, they remain up as much as any other provider, and the interface/service is great, and is improving every month.
The only sore spot is that two times I've had intermittent dropouts—once caused by someone DDoSing another DO site, and the other time for unexplained reasons. (And I know that the dropouts weren't just me, since I was monitoring things with https://servercheck.in/, which runs partly on Digital Ocean VPSes).