TechStars Graduate DigitalOcean Switches To SSD For Its $5 Per Month VPS

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Post by muellerwolfram » Tue, Jan 15, 2013, 12:06 PM UTC

TechStars Graduate DigitalOcean Switches To SSD For Its $5 Per Month VPS
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Post by TheTaytay » Tue, Jan 15, 2013, 12:53 PM UTC

This is what I see at www.digitalocean.com:

The page you are looking for is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later.

Then I got a redirect loop. :(

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Post by deanclatworthy » Tue, Jan 15, 2013, 1:14 PM UTC

TheTaytay wrote: post #2

This is what I see at www.digitalocean.com: The page you are looking for is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later. Then I got a redirect loop. :(

I have also experienced this once whilst browsing the site just now.

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Post by nachteilig » Tue, Jan 15, 2013, 1:32 PM UTC

Great pricing, but it doesn't give me a lot of confidence in their service when it can't survive being linked from TC.

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Post by gilli » Tue, Jan 15, 2013, 1:40 PM UTC

Their benchmarks don't seem all that great considering that they are supposed to have SSD's

http://serverbear.com/9806/digitalocean#view-benchmarks

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Post by mitchwainer » Tue, Jan 15, 2013, 1:47 PM UTC

nachteilig wrote: post #4

Great pricing, but it doesn't give me a lot of confidence in their service when it can't survive being linked from TC.

We are back online. We are spinning up thousands of servers right now. Would love for you to give us a shot. Here is a $20 credit coupon - "SSDBEAR20" Let me know what you think.

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Post by raiyu » Tue, Jan 15, 2013, 1:53 PM UTC

gilli wrote: post #5

Their benchmarks don't seem all that great considering that they are supposed to have SSD's http://serverbear.com/9806/digitalocean#view-benchmarks

We offer a free 3 hour trial and if you register with a credit card or a PayPal payment you get an extra $1.25 credit which is the equivalent of running a 512MB virtual server for free for close to week so you can test things yourself in production.

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Post by raiyu » Tue, Jan 15, 2013, 1:53 PM UTC

nachteilig wrote: post #4

Great pricing, but it doesn't give me a lot of confidence in their service when it can't survive being linked from TC.

True =]

We should have spun up some more web servers to handle the load, as an IaaS provider most of the time you are serving little front-end traffic, but lesson learned. :)

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Post by mitchwainer » Tue, Jan 15, 2013, 1:54 PM UTC

TheTaytay wrote: post #2

This is what I see at www.digitalocean.com: The page you are looking for is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later. Then I got a redirect loop. :(

Took a bit of a unexpected hit with the traffic. The SSD release is bringing new all time visitors to our website. We're spinning up thousands of servers as we speak. Here is a $20 coupon code from ServerBear to give us a shot - "SSDBEAR20"

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Post by raiyu » Tue, Jan 15, 2013, 1:55 PM UTC

TheTaytay wrote: post #2

This is what I see at www.digitalocean.com: The page you are looking for is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later. Then I got a redirect loop. :(

We have a 45-90 second delay on our front-end firewall, we are also doing a few code deploys right now so it takes a little while to reset.

Our focus is always on ensuring that virtual servers that customers run are unaffected, but its great to get a nice traffic spike to the front-end to also see real world usage and how we should be updating things for the future.