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Re:Digital Ocean Private Networking Is Not Private by spossy on Thursday March 05, 2015 @01:42PM (#9152883)
maybe because digital ocean has and will always be a VPS company, they are not cloud.
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Re:Digital Ocean Private Networking Is Not Private by lbotos on Thursday March 05, 2015 @02:12PM (#9153116)
What do you think makes the separation between a "cloud" provider and a VPS company?
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Re:Digital Ocean Private Networking Is Not Private by justinsb on Thursday March 05, 2015 @02:18PM (#9153151)
The glib answer is that a cloud provider understands the need for a private network.

But, in that is a deeper truth: a VPS is a cheaper machine. It becomes "cloud" when you use many machines together. If you're using many machines, you really want intercommunication between those machines to be easy, fast and - yes - reasonably secure.

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Re:Digital Ocean Private Networking Is Not Private by vertex-four on Thursday March 05, 2015 @01:48PM (#9152940)
They claim to be a "cloud hosting" platform, though, which is the confusing bit.
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