Re:DigitalOcean Wants To Challenge Amazon, Linode With Focus...
by mschalle on Thursday June 27, 2013 @05:22PM
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Unfortunately network reliability is also an issue in the SF zone. Apparently they replaced some routers 2 weeks ago, but that hasn't solved the issues entirely. Over the past 2 weeks I've had easily over 30 minutes of downtime. During this downtime no pings / web requests can connect, nor can any SSH connections, so I'm fairly confident it's a loss of connectivity on their end.
Regardless, I'm still happy with the service and the pricing, and will continue to use them in the hopes of the network issues improving.
Digitial Ocean makes provisioning new servers incredibly easy (as does Linode). The process is near instant. Scaling a server up and down is also near instant, especially compared to Rackspace (it took over an hour the last time I scaled a server down with them).
But their network has proven the least reliable (I'm in their NY DC). My site monitors have reported a few outages, anywhere from 1 - 6 minutes a piece. By comparison, ServGrid and Linode haven't had any outages during my trial.
But their customer support is really fast, and I love the documentation and community they have around their offerings. I really wish they had a Dallas DC though.