Re:DigitalOcean leaks customer data between VMs
by vacri on Monday December 30, 2013 @01:26AM
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The basic offerings should be secure. You shouldn't have to know what all the bits and pieces of a custom interface mean before you start using a service in order to use it safely.
Seriously, there should not be an option "Shall we pass your latent information onto the next user?" left active by default. If people want to save that trivial amount of money, then let them turn off safety themselves.
Re:DigitalOcean leaks customer data between VMs
by amalag on Monday December 30, 2013 @10:02AM
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If you care about your information I think you should also take responsibility for it. I can't see the point about blaming others for their defaults, it is made quite clear when you destroy a droplet.
Re:DigitalOcean leaks customer data between VMs
by vacri on Monday December 30, 2013 @08:40AM
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Hrm, I should also add that for a $5/month VM, 10 minutes of time is worth $0.0012. And that 10 minutes doesn't require the RAM or CPU component, just the SSD, so it's much cheaper than that in actuality. It's silly to squabble over pricing that low. It would take a million destroyed VMs (at list price) for the cost to be much more than what's in the office's petty cash box, and it's worth it for the security implications, not to mention PR.
Besides we are not talking about a high margin business here. $5 vms when most providers are charging 4x times that. Its not unreasonable to expect that your going to have to pay for extras. Similar to a budget airline, you get what you pay for. You want a service that includes that cost in your other fees... then use AWS, rackspace or one of the 1000s of others.