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DO is nothing for serious business, it's fun to use when you want to do a PoC at home. AWS is by far the most advanced platform when you need to do something ba
by Thaxll 10y ago
DO is nothing for serious business, it's fun to use when you want to do a PoC at home. AWS is by far the most advanced platform when you need to do something backend related, they have large number of useful services.
- lobster_johnson 10y agoDepends. We've been on DO for 3 years (we're slowly migrating to GCP for various reasons), and it's great if all you do is run your own VMs and manage everything yourself, and don't have a huge number of them. Bandwidth, CPU and local disk performance, reliability -- all on par with AWS based on my experience. Of course, DO only has VMs -- they don't have things like EBS (though some data centers now have attachable storage), any of the add-on services like S3, or ability to tweak performance by IOPS etc. DO is a bare-bones VM provider, and it is very good for what it is. It's not a toy.
- Thaxll 10y agoIt's not very good, it's average, the fact that the kernel version was set in the panel was a huge issue. You provide a VM and you can't upgrade the kernel wtf?
- lobster_johnson 10y agoTo be fair, that's no longer the case. I personally had no issues with that.