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I love how DO focuses on what matters the most: Inexpensive VMs and scalable block storage. If I had to pick two, those would be them!
by johnwheeler 10y ago
I love how DO focuses on what matters the most: Inexpensive VMs and scalable block storage.
If I had to pick two, those would be them!
- brianwawok 10y agoWell except being 4 years late to the block storage game? Seems they have an uphill fight. Aws and gce match them on low end droplet price and offer much more. No local ssd but not sure what % of apps really need local ssd. DO effectively forces you to pay for local ssd for all of your servers.
- velodrome 10y agoWell, they beat Linode.. With DO, at least there is an additional option available for users. With GCE and AWS, the outbound bandwidth is expensive. 1TB = $90 (AWS, GCE) vs 1TB included (Linode, DO).
- e12e 10y agoThis. I'm always a little confused by how people even evaluate the big three clouds, with prices per request and all bandwidth "not included". It's so strange coming from cheap dedicated servers with typically 10tb bandwidth/month "included". I mean, what do people do in the cloud that requires 100gb of storage, and insignificant transfer?
- brianwawok 10y agoSure, and certain classes of problems are cheaper on DO (webscraper, botnet, etc). When they launched they just felt so far ahead of everyone else (1/4 the price of linode for SSD!). But price has been static for 5? years, so feeling lessing exciting these days.