DigitalOcean raises $100M in debt as it scales toward revenue of $300M

Re:DigitalOcean raises $100M in debt as it scales toward rev... by tmpz22 on Thursday February 20, 2020 @04:21PM (#22378760)

Pretty sure Linode is comparable price wise and in Europe there are cheaper options like OVH. Digital Ocean pricing becomes pretty comparable with GCP and others when you start specing up to a "production-grade" server i.e. the kind of server you actually want to run Postgres on.

Their K8s offering I think is the cheapest of all major providers but you lose out of secondary benefits like GKE's fantastic log analysis tools (I think its called stackdriver or something).

Their database offerings are in about the same range as other providers (not comparing it to Google Cloud $panner).

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Re:DigitalOcean raises $100M in debt as it scales toward rev... by lwb on Thursday February 20, 2020 @04:57PM (#22379050)

Just popping in to say that OVH is the cheapest option for a reason -- support/monitoring/any other features you might want are just not there like they might be on other providers.

I host a single tiny website on OVH and they restart it randomly every ~4 months without warning (seriously). It was annoying at first until I set our services to run on system boot.

Some more discussion at discourse.org that's relevant: https://meta.discourse.org/t/migrate-from-digital-ocean-to-o...

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Re:DigitalOcean raises $100M in debt as it scales toward rev... by martin8412 on Thursday February 20, 2020 @06:35PM (#22379640)

I suppose it depends on what OVH offering you buy. I have multiple servers at OVH with multiple years of uptime, but those are dedicated ones and not the cheapest Kimsufi offerings.

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Re:DigitalOcean raises $100M in debt as it scales toward rev... by mercer on Friday February 21, 2020 @06:32AM (#22382419)

I have multiple projects on the cheapest Hetzner.cloud offering and haven't run into any of these issues. might be worth looking into.

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Re:DigitalOcean raises $100M in debt as it scales toward rev... by the8472 on Thursday February 20, 2020 @05:27PM (#22379231)

> until I set our services to run on system boot.

Which pretty much is how things were always done, even in the PHP-CGI days.

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