DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M From Andreessen Horowitz to Take on AWS

Re:DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M From Andreessen Horowitz to Ta... by rschmitty on Thursday March 06, 2014 @01:06PM (#7355448)

This is why I love having a static IP.

    sudo ufw allow from your.ip.addr to tcp port 22

Rest of the world doesnt know I have ssh up and if I'm ever in a hotel or something I can tunnel through my home or login to DO's panel and allow another ip

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Re:DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M From Andreessen Horowitz to Ta... by bananas on Friday March 07, 2014 @02:46AM (#7358974)

Don't do that. I did that once and our static ip changed suddenly despite lots of money being spent on it. That was a painful day driving from London to Manchester for me to get to the console.

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Re:DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M From Andreessen Horowitz to Ta... by rschmitty on Sunday March 09, 2014 @08:41PM (#7370667)

There is a web console, you never have to drive... or worry :)

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Re:DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M From Andreessen Horowitz to Ta... by fredsted on Thursday March 06, 2014 @02:15PM (#7355906)

I could imagine this being quite dangerous, like being on holiday, there's a power outage, fire, ISP error, etc at home and no way to control your server.

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Re:DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M From Andreessen Horowitz to Ta... by aroch on Thursday March 06, 2014 @01:46PM (#7355718)

I have essentially a static IP (A 'dynamic' IP with a 6month lease that stays the same on renewal and follows my account regardless of where I live), but you're super fucked if for some reason your IP changes. I usually set it to the /24 I'm assigned from.

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Re:DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M From Andreessen Horowitz to Ta... by rschmitty on Thursday March 06, 2014 @01:47PM (#7355732)

How are you screwed? You can always login to the console in the web admin and change it

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