Ask HN: Is DigitalOcean less reliable than AWS?

Posted by frankferma on Sunday March 04, 2018 @11:52PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I'm thinking to migrate one of my services to AWS from DigitalOCean because we are having a lots of updates and network issues almost every day. Is AWS better than DigitalOcean?

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Re:Ask HN: Is DigitalOcean less reliable than AWS? by LinuxBender on Monday March 05, 2018 @12:20AM (#16518934)

I've seen higher uptime my VM's at DigitalOcean, Linode and Vultr than AWS. Their network speeds are all faster than AWS as well.

People go to AWS because of their vast API's and services that help make automation at scale easier. That said, they expect you to design your applications to be fault tolerant. People could run all the same applications and the other VPS providers, but then they would have to build more of the supporting infrastructure code themselves.

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Re:Ask HN: Is DigitalOcean less reliable than AWS? by api on Sunday March 04, 2018 @11:56PM (#16518832)

Not in my experience. They just have less higher level services. We have many nodes there with 400+ day uptime and net reliability is excellent.

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