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Re: DDoS Attack on DigitalOcean.com

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Post by joeblau »

Justsignedup wrote: post #3

what is digitalocean? These ddos attacks are kind of like free marketing campaigns :)

It's an Infrastructure as a Service offering like Amazon's EC2, Linnode, Microsoft Azure, or Rackspace. Digital Ocean[1] has seen a sharp rise in popularity lately from developers due to ease of use and high performance VM's.

[1] - https://www.digitalocean.com/

Re: DDoS Attack on DigitalOcean.com

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Post by jebblue »

joeblau wrote: post #6
Justsignedup wrote: post #3

what is digitalocean? These ddos attacks are kind of like free marketing campaigns :)

It's an Infrastructure as a Service offering like Amazon's EC2, Linnode, Microsoft Azure, or Rackspace. Digital Ocean[1] has seen a sharp rise in popularity lately from developers due to ease of use and high performance VM's. [1] - https://www.digitalocean.com/

Are their VM's performance on the same level as the others you listed or higher? What do you base the "high performance" comment on?

Re: DDoS Attack on DigitalOcean.com

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Post by Thaxll »

joeblau wrote: post #6
Justsignedup wrote: post #3

what is digitalocean? These ddos attacks are kind of like free marketing campaigns :)

It's an Infrastructure as a Service offering like Amazon's EC2, Linnode, Microsoft Azure, or Rackspace. Digital Ocean[1] has seen a sharp rise in popularity lately from developers due to ease of use and high performance VM's. [1] - https://www.digitalocean.com/

I wouldn't say 'high performance VM's' but rather cheap prices.

Re: DDoS Attack on DigitalOcean.com

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Post by cs02rm0 »

jebblue wrote: post #7
joeblau wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's an Infrastructure as a Service offering like Amazon's EC2, Linnode, Microsoft Azure, or Rackspace. Digital Ocean[1] has seen a sharp rise in popularity lately from developers due to ease of use and high performance VM's. [1] - https://www.digitalocean.com/

Are their VM's performance on the same level as the others you listed or higher? What do you base the "high performance" comment on?

Yes, at least. For one I believe all DigitalOcean boxes have SSDs. I've found their boxes much better per $ than an EC2 VM. EC2 has a much wider tool suite and is possibly better if you regularly spin machines up and down. YMMV, but for just 'a box' they compete pretty well IMHO.
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