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Digital Ocean has some quality posts I've found from Google, though I don't actively follow the blog. https://www.digitalocean.com/company/blog/ https://www.di

Digital Ocean has some quality posts I've found from Google, though I don't actively follow the blog. https://www.digitalocean.com/company/blog/ https://www.digitalocean.com/company/blog/

carlmungz 10y ago
Agreed. When we were setting up a server at work we found their how-to articles particularly useful.
jmknoll 10y ago
I believe the digital ocean articles are community-written, unless they also have a corporate blog that I'm unaware of.
jmknoll 10y ago
I believe the digital ocean articles are community-written, unless they also have a corporate blog that I'm unaware of.
tekkk 10y ago
I have to agree that the posts I've read from DO have all been of the highest quality regarding ops-stuff. I think the bigger companies could use same kind of dedication to user-friendliness and focus more on making their communities better.
gketuma 10y ago
+1 for Digital Ocean.
inertial 10y ago
Came here to upvote DO. Most of the companies mentioned here write articles about their products, infra & engineering marvels.What makes DO different is that their articles are written for the end user.They have some of the most helpful articles on setting up servers, from start to end, with examples. Although not all posts are written by their own engineers [1] (nothing wrong, just saying). [1] https://www.digitalocean.com/community/get-paid-to-write https://www.digitalocean.com/community/get-paid-to-write
Theodores 10y ago
Their posts rank well, higher than Stack Overflow for 'how do I install this on Ubuntu' articles plus you know the instructions are highly likely to work without excessive featuritis (certain how to perfect server guides spring to mind). Along the way one is likely to get a free-ish 'droplet' at some time and the combination of the articles and the occasional droplet use makes one a customer almost by a process of osmosis - it becomes hard to not like Digital Ocean. I do feel that they may have lost the momentum on the articles though, or maybe I am just not doing so many Ubuntu setup things, whatever the reason I have not used their articles a great deal over the last year. Does anyone else think they need a bit of a reboot and to update/crank out more articles?

Digital Ocean has some quality posts I've found from Google, though I don't actively follow the blog. https://www.digitalocean.com/company/blog/ https://www.digitalocean.com/company/blog/

carlmungz 10y ago

Agreed. When we were setting up a server at work we found their how-to articles particularly useful.

jmknoll 10y ago

I believe the digital ocean articles are community-written, unless they also have a corporate blog that I'm unaware of.

jmknoll 10y ago

I believe the digital ocean articles are community-written, unless they also have a corporate blog that I'm unaware of.

tekkk 10y ago

I have to agree that the posts I've read from DO have all been of the highest quality regarding ops-stuff. I think the bigger companies could use same kind of dedication to user-friendliness and focus more on making their communities better.

gketuma 10y ago

+1 for Digital Ocean.

inertial 10y ago

Came here to upvote DO. Most of the companies mentioned here write articles about their products, infra & engineering marvels.What makes DO different is that their articles are written for the end user.They have some of the most helpful articles on setting up servers, from start to end, with examples. Although not all posts are written by their own engineers [1] (nothing wrong, just saying). [1] https://www.digitalocean.com/community/get-paid-to-write https://www.digitalocean.com/community/get-paid-to-write

Theodores 10y ago

Their posts rank well, higher than Stack Overflow for 'how do I install this on Ubuntu' articles plus you know the instructions are highly likely to work without excessive featuritis (certain how to perfect server guides spring to mind). Along the way one is likely to get a free-ish 'droplet' at some time and the combination of the articles and the occasional droplet use makes one a customer almost by a process of osmosis - it becomes hard to not like Digital Ocean. I do feel that they may have lost the momentum on the articles though, or maybe I am just not doing so many Ubuntu setup things, whatever the reason I have not used their articles a great deal over the last year. Does anyone else think they need a bit of a reboot and to update/crank out more articles?