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Re:DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M From Andreessen Horowitz to Ta... by barake on Thursday March 06, 2014 @01:05PM (#7355441)
Resizing is our #1 issue with DO. The current quick resize adds cores and RAM just fine, but it's a one way trip.

It's not possible to shrink upsized instances like you can on Linode. On DO you can't even restore a snapshot or backup to a smaller instance size - you must rebuild from scratch.

I guess the right way to handle this is a configuration management tool, but this is a real pain since there is only local storage.

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Re:DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M From Andreessen Horowitz to Ta... by vacri on Friday March 07, 2014 @12:58AM (#7358736)
a configuration management tool

Yes, this is vital, but it's still not going to help you maintain existing data. A config management tool isn't going to fill out your logs, for example.

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