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Re:YC Tech Stacks by pranaysharma on Monday August 15, 2016 @10:33PM (#12295142)
Why no one uses services from providers like Digital ocean and linode . They are cheap and reliable?
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Re:YC Tech Stacks by sseveran on Monday August 15, 2016 @11:17PM (#12295317)
The value of AWS is all the other services that they offer. While you could assemble them yourself, building on AWS allows you to move really fast and scalable infrastructure.
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Re:YC Tech Stacks by tedmiston on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @12:09AM (#12295488)
Things like load balancers and database servers especially, though they do charge a pretty penny for the latter.
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Re:YC Tech Stacks by sseveran on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @02:41PM (#12299582)
I use RDS Postgres and gladly pay for it. Love its snapshotting, backing up and failover.
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Re:YC Tech Stacks by grapehut on Monday August 15, 2016 @10:56PM (#12295238)
Both are great for hobby projects, and offer pretty great bang for buck, but I'd never run consider running anything serious on either, let a lone a business.

Some examples:

== Not pay bills (yeah, yeah, I should check my email more often when a credit card expires) ===

* Digital Ocean: All is working, then one day they flip the switch and shut down your servers and delete the backups (that you paid for)

* AWS: Has a super reasonable policy, first by shutting down the servers so you know

* Linode: Not sure

== Get DDoSd ==

* Digital Ocean: 24 hour blackhole, zero support or human contact in this time

* AWS: Servers kept alive, got some engineering assistance

* Linode: 24 (?) hour blackhole, a bit of really bad support

== Physical Server Upgrades ==

* Digital Ocean: Not bad

* AWS: Amazing. Zero downtime, I have 4 year uptime on many servers

* Linode: Botched my servers, more times than I can count. Even had support reboot the WRONG servers of mine when I was talking with them

== Bandwidth ===

* Digital Ocean: shitty and cheap

* AWS: Amazing and stupidly expensive

* Linode: Decent and cheap

I could go on. If it was a hobby project, I'd probably just use Digital Ocean because of their cheap prices and sleek control panel. (Or actually I'd use vultr)

But for anything serious where I have a budget for servers, you'd be crazy to use anything about AWS or Google Cloud

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Re:YC Tech Stacks by tedmiston on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @12:07AM (#12295477)
> * AWS: Servers kept alive, got some engineering assistance

This depends a lot on what level of customer you are.

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Re:YC Tech Stacks by tedmiston on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @12:15AM (#12295499)
Vultr looks very comparable to DigitalOcean. I'm curious why they left DO out of their benchmarks. It seems the most obvious comparison.

https://www.vultr.com/benchmarks/

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Re:YC Tech Stacks by tedmiston on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @12:11AM (#12295491)
A significant amount use DigitalOcean and Linode; AWS just really dominates.

https://www.gra.pe/?p=36

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