"DigitalOcean Killed Our Company"
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#2It's interesting how many companies simply shut down service rather than say give a warning and wait for a response (or at least start a clock).
Granted that would require people to communicate and use some form of reason.
Even DMCA for all its warts fires up a warning and has a response mechanism (granted other issues there).
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#3I know this doesn't help you now, but you may want to consider distributing your site or setting up DR sites across multiple VPS providers. If your application supports it, you may even want to consider using a DNS provider that can do health checks and fail over the site for you.
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#4I have happily used DO for small things, like hosting a Ghost blog, or running an Algo VPN, but I am a little surprised to see people doing bigger infrastructure with them - not that they deserve to lose everything for making that choice, but it seems like it would have been clearly riskier than AWS/GC/Azure?
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#5From the twitter thread - seems like the problem was resolved.
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#6I’m certainly getting downvoted for this.
Not at all trying to blame the original posters and victims:
While they seem great for hobbyist and small business sites, there’s no way I’d trust Fortune 500 client business to something like DigitalOcean. I just don’t see the benefits over a more established operation like AWS, Azure or GCP. Saving $50 here and there isn’t worth it.
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#7An expensive lesson learned in redundancy.
It's a shame to see things play out this way, but sometimes a lesson is taught in a brutal fashion.
I imagine the author will be more careful in the future regarding off-site backups, additional technical partners, contingency plans, etc.
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#8I’m certainly getting downvoted for this. Not at all trying to blame the original posters and victims: While they seem great for hobbyist and small business sites, there’s no way I’d trust Fortune 500 client business to something like DigitalOcean. I just don’t see the benefits over a more established operation like AWS, Azure or GCP. Saving $50 here and there isn’t worth it.
This is obvious. Start your app on Digital Ocean or Heroku, and when it becomes a viable business get that shit on a grown up platform.
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#9Cool watching this in real time. Co-founder just intervened and got it back up. Still....
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#10This reinforces my gut feeling that companies like DigitalOcean and Scaleway are fine for hobby usage, but for any serious business operations, I'd go with AWS.