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Re:DigitalOcean lost our server by andrewthetechie on Thursday February 04, 2016 @04:00PM (#11037186)
Why?
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Re:DigitalOcean lost our server by fweespeech on Thursday February 04, 2016 @04:07PM (#11037221)
They regularly are unable to create new droplets [or other control issues where you can't perform normal functions with normal latency] and/or have full DC outages.

Pretty much any use case where I'd use something like DO being unable to create new VMs, etc. is the same as an outage.

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Re:DigitalOcean lost our server by andrewthetechie on Thursday February 04, 2016 @04:21PM (#11037332)
Huh, that's pretty odd.

I asked why as I work for DO's operations team and I wanted to know what your concerns were. Do you have a specific instance of a problem? What you're describing would be considered a MAJOR outage for us and we have not had one in quite some time.

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Re:DigitalOcean lost our server by fweespeech on Thursday February 04, 2016 @04:30PM (#11037401)
https://status.digitalocean.com/

* Jan 6th

* Dec 11th

* Dec 4th

* Nov 27th

* Oct 10th

* Oct 2nd

That is annoying enough I'd want to be able to failover if it exceeded 15 minutes. I get it might not be an issue for anyone else but failing over is less complex than mitigating latency issues with droplet creation or whatever.

I get "regularly" to me might mean something different to you but if the 2 DO DCs I was using are hit literally every month with a problem of some kind...it seems regular to me.

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