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DigitalOcean is quite expensive compared to GCE AWS and Vultur, but to answer your question yes it is. I ran a website with 2M monthly active users on their 5$

DigitalOcean is quite expensive compared to GCE AWS and Vultur, but to answer your question yes it is. I ran a website with 2M monthly active users on their 5$ VPS

ek750 9y ago
That's a bit surprising, can you expand on the difference in price between the $5 droplet and GCE? Is it other costs not included in the monthly base?
- notlambda 9y ago
  DO is more expensive with their higher end VPS. GCE is cheaper if you don't use a lot of bandwidth
pvsukale1 9y ago
Just out of curiosity what was your technology stack ? You can't run a rails app with so many users on a $5 instance :)
- notlambda 9y ago
  It was Nginx + Golang + Cloudflare + Mongo, i managed to have so little resource usage because most of the request were served from CF edge nodes.
  - ralmeida 9y ago
    Did the CF edge nodes serve only static resources? Or also cached API calls somehow?
    - notlambda 9y ago
      most of the traffic was map tiles, the golang part did a mongo query to get some data but that was a minor part of the traffic
KaiserPro 9y ago
A $5 instance on DO has significantly more resources than on the equivalent cost box on EC2 https://uncrunched.com/2013/08/07/digital-ocean-v-aws-10x-performance-for-13-cost/ https://uncrunched.com/2013/08/07/digital-ocean-v-aws-10x-pe... for an old comparison. EC2 is, and always have been slow and expensive. its the other bits that make it compelling.
ralmeida 9y ago
Not sure about that, as others have mentioned. At 2M monthly active users, bandwidth alone would be way more than $5 on GCE/AWS, no? How much bandwidth did you use?