DigitalOcean launches its container service

Re:DigitalOcean launches its container service by parhamn on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @12:41PM (#18657044)

Were they ever 'new' in anything? I use them for small personal projects (they've gotten a lot more stable recently). I never thought of them as an innovative cloud provider but just one that was cheap and easy.

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Re:DigitalOcean launches its container service by chrisweekly on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @12:46PM (#18657099)

Same here. IME, DO is a great choice for many projects, because it's inexpensive, straightforward and reliable. I wouldn't trade any of those 3 attributes for "innovative".

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Re:DigitalOcean launches its container service by hinkley on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @01:54PM (#18657743)

You remember a few years back when "performance is a feature"?

Well, sanity is also a feature. When none of your competitors are doing it, then it starts to look like innovation.

I mean, the transparent fee structure alone is why I push dabblers toward DO. I'm looking at you, AWS.

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Re:DigitalOcean launches its container service by quickthrower2 on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @02:57PM (#18658327)

To me they are closer to the classic hosting companies, the ones where you can get a "Virtual Private Server" for $20/month rather than "Some Ether" for $0.0000001 / weird unit.

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Re:DigitalOcean launches its container service by btashton on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @03:52PM (#18658736)

There was a window where they were a nice option for small SSD backed instances when EC2 was still doing low performance spinning disks for their bottom tier.

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Re:DigitalOcean launches its container service by mike_j on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @07:04PM (#18660189)

first only ssd host.

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