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

Re:DigitalOcean raises $100M in debt as it scales toward rev... by dcchambers on Thursday February 20, 2020 @06:24PM (#22379578)

For static site hosting there are a ton of "good enough" free options these days like GitHub Pages, Netlify, etc.

For pure VPS, there are cheaper options, especially if you don't need a ton of customer support like DO offers.

For example, buyvm.net has a VPS with 1 vCPU, 1GB RAM, 20GB SSD, and unmetered bandwidth for $3.50/mo. DO's cheapest VPS is 1 vCPU, 1GB RAM, 25GB SSD, and 1TB bandwidth for $5.00/mo.

Digital Ocean does offer a ton of value in other ways - support, uptime SLA, and other managed products...

Edit: Check out https://lowendbox.com/ to find cheap VPS providers.

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Re:DigitalOcean raises $100M in debt as it scales toward rev... by dannyw on Friday February 21, 2020 @01:03AM (#22381234)

Very happy BuyVM customer. The unmetered bandwidth really is unmetered, and support from the founder has been remarkably transparent and often minutes when he's awake and working.

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Re:DigitalOcean raises $100M in debt as it scales toward rev... by SahAssar on Friday February 21, 2020 @03:28PM (#22386391)

Have you checked the performance of their VPS:es? Any numbers to share? I've been thinking of using them because of their anycast support.

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Re:DigitalOcean raises $100M in debt as it scales toward rev... by dannyw on Saturday February 22, 2020 @08:26AM (#22390866)

CPU:

    model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1270 v3 @ 3.50GHz

So yes, it's a 7 year old quad core, with maximum of 32 GB of RAM. You only get access to one core (technically thread); 512NB to 2GB nodes can burst to use the full thread, but are expected to not 100% it. The 4GB node (1/8th of the server) is allowed to fully peg their thread.

Some of the newer servers are powered by AMD Ryzens, which is a great thing (they are far better perf/$ now; they're on GCP, and Tencent is deploying tens of thousands of ryzens in their DC).

I have a 2GB node, and I've ran Geekbench 5 and got a score of 661. Here are the results: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/1278946

For comparison, a Vultr 1GB ($5/m) has a geekbench score of 2413.

For most web server needs, BuyVM should suffice.

Yes, other providers are much faster; but other providers don't offer unmetered bandwidth. BuyVM is great for bandwidth heavy, compute-low loads.

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