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Digital 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
by BillinghamJ 10y ago
Digital 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.