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spent an hour putting up a Google form and static site on a cheap Digital Ocean instance. Now I feel like the Old Geek (I'm 32): What's the deal with Digital
by rsp1984 10y ago
spent an hour putting up a Google form and static site on a cheap Digital Ocean instance.
Now I feel like the Old Geek (I'm 32):
What's the deal with Digital Ocean? If the website is static and receives content by manual copy-pasting from a Google sheet (as outlined in the article), why bother with Droplets and Storage and all the other configuration? Why is good old web hosting (the kind where you just upload your html/php/js via FTP and it all just works) not good enough for this? Really curious.
- BillinghamJ 10y agoDigital Ocean is just a simple VPS provider - I wouldn't even call it cloud. The usual cPanel PHP 5.4 shared hosting is consistently unreliable, insecure and a generally overall bad idea. Who would you actually even trust to run it?
- billmalarky 10y agoEh, DO is cloud. The instances are virtual and can be resized dynamically.
- _joel 10y agoNot sure I follow that ontology as that doesn't necessarily make something a cloud. API's to interact with the ecosystem make it more like a cloud. Whilst I understand DO have API's, just saying the machine can be dynamically resized doesn't justify the cloud tag. Cloud doesn't need to be virtual, either.
- billmalarky 10y agoTo me, I think of cloud as a business term that describes infrastructure that can be easily manipulated with software (or dashboards). That's what DO provides albeit with WAY less functionality than AWS (but at a much lower price point).
- elcct 10y agoCloud is just someone else's computer, so you're right
- fencepost 10y ago> Who would you actually even trust to run it? Sysadmins. Scary scary sysadmins.
- iamdave 10y agoYour qualifier there made me laugh so hard because it's so true for all kinds of sysadmin-y reasons. Flashbacks of talking down a VP who said "just put it on DO or something" came to mind immediately.
- angry-hacker 10y agoDO is a simple hosting if you want. It is more or less the same way. You create a droplet with one click with either apache or nginx and you're good to go. Sftp probably, If you feel nostalgic you can have ftp access too. I would understand if the author was writing about setting up the blog with angular and using Amazon fg6 instance with cloudfire load balancer...
- mgkimsal 10y ago> If the website is static and receives content by manual copy-pasting from a Google sheet (as outlined in the article), It doesn't any more - he's built an app to handle that.
- toadi 10y agoWell I'm 40 year old and understand that you question why use a DO instance for a static site. But I would think why not put it AWS s3 or GH-pages. Nothing special needed and they serve static pages for you.
- alpeb 10y agoGood old web hosting is not good at all. Please please never ever use shared web hosting for anything. As soon as your site gets a little bit popular you're almost guaranteed it's gonna get hacked.
- rsp1984 10y agoThanks. Can you explain why that is and why DO is more secure?
- alpeb 10y agoDO is VPS, so there's not the slightest chance for tenants in the same machine to see or modify stuff from other tenants (besides attacks through the network); also you have a guarantee on the amount of CPU and memory allotted to you. The best kind of shared hosting only relies on unix user permissions for security and that's not enough, plus you don't get the CPU and memory guarantees VPS offers.
- triangleman 10y agoI actually had a DO instance hacked, via Wordpress exploit. I guess I wasn't keeping my Wordpress up to date, or not running a security plugin I didn't know I needed. Had to shut the whole thing down, start up a new droplet, reload the website from backup. Meanwhile my WP sites on DreamHost are happily humming along, automatically upgraded, any problems are promptly attended to by their support team. $12/month, unlimited sites/storage/bandwidth. I do not work for DreamHost.