Re:DigitalOcean introduces Load Balancers
by bogomipz on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @12:15PM
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Does someone running a wordpress site need HA though? You could also just buy a pingdom account and be notified when there is a problem and resolve it via support as needed. Adding an LB tier is adding a layer of complexity and different failure modes. That's why I was asking if maybe they were targeting larger customers now.
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Re:DigitalOcean introduces Load Balancers
by freehunter on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @03:18PM
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I think you're a little off on the idea that DO only hosts unimportant Wordpress sites, or that Wordpress could never be used for something that needs high availability.
As of 2014 Digital Ocean was the third largest hosting provider, so they're not a mom-and-pop operation.
Re:DigitalOcean introduces Load Balancers
by bogomipz on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @04:38PM
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I never said or implied that the company was a mom-and-pop operation. I know they are a large company.
Being the 3rd largest hosting provider however doesn't say anything about what type and size of customers they have.
Who are some the larger customers that run their businesses on D.O infra?
Re:DigitalOcean introduces Load Balancers
by Tassels on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @05:45PM
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You might want to take a look at https://www.digitalocean.com/solutions/ and/or https://www.digitalocean.com/customers/
Re:DigitalOcean introduces Load Balancers
by bogomipz on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @10:24PM
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The only names I recognized on there was Influx and Compose.
Influx actually looks like they use AWS for their cloud offering now:
https://www.influxdata.com/announcing-influxcloud-fully-mana...
and Compose deploys to AWS, Google, Softlayer and only to D.O for MongoDB classic whatever that is: