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DO is still a sweet spot for a lot of people when combining price, features, and usability. There are services with more features (the ones you mentioned), and

DO is still a sweet spot for a lot of people when combining price, features, and usability. There are services with more features (the ones you mentioned), and cheaper services (OVH and Hetzner, anything on lowendbox...) and those are their big threats going forward. In my opinion nobody has really nailed the ease of use for spinning up quick server(s) + usability of DO's interface at anything near their price point right now. That said, OVH is coming into the US in force this year with aggressive pricing, so if they can improve their UX a little they'll be a big threat. Still, I'd bet on DO continuing to succeed.

_up 9y ago
Maybe you should look at Scaleway. They are as cheap as ovh and look very similar to DO.
goatherders 9y ago
I know the people in charge of OVH coming to the USA. I think "in force" is a DRASTIC overstatement.
morganvachon 9y ago
> In my opinion nobody has really nailed the ease of use for spinning up quick server(s) + usability of DO's interface at anything near their price point right now. Give Vultr a shot, I've found it to be easier to use and still just as feature filled and flexible as DO. My favorite feature is their phenomenal support; a while back I had someone take advantage of a lapse in DNS upkeep on my part to try to use one of my domains to serve a pornographic dating site. Within ten minutes of submitting a ticket it was fixed and the domain was pointed back to my instance.
moh_maya 9y ago
Absolutely agreed / my 2 cents. I'm a scientist turned pseudo-programmer, and need to manage a few servers for my team / start up. We are too small & early to be able to afford or justify a dedicated administrator, and our requirements are mostly WordPress based sites and a database server for internal use, etc. I've tried to use vultr, linode, AWS. But DO's interface and the wonderful, comprehensive support documents are a huge huge differentiator. We aren't using too many instances, (just 3, nothing complex, no webapps). And, with their interface and support docs, this is something I've managed to do on my own without any major issues. And I suspect I'm not the only one in such a situation.. I was ok with the older prices; with the new, lower rates, I'm not even going to consider moving, even if the competitors are at 1/2 the cost. It's not worth the little money I might save...

_up 9y ago

Maybe you should look at Scaleway. They are as cheap as ovh and look very similar to DO.

goatherders 9y ago

I know the people in charge of OVH coming to the USA. I think "in force" is a DRASTIC overstatement.

morganvachon 9y ago

> In my opinion nobody has really nailed the ease of use for spinning up quick server(s) + usability of DO's interface at anything near their price point right now. Give Vultr a shot, I've found it to be easier to use and still just as feature filled and flexible as DO. My favorite feature is their phenomenal support; a while back I had someone take advantage of a lapse in DNS upkeep on my part to try to use one of my domains to serve a pornographic dating site. Within ten minutes of submitting a ticket it was fixed and the domain was pointed back to my instance.

moh_maya 9y ago

Absolutely agreed / my 2 cents. I'm a scientist turned pseudo-programmer, and need to manage a few servers for my team / start up. We are too small & early to be able to afford or justify a dedicated administrator, and our requirements are mostly WordPress based sites and a database server for internal use, etc. I've tried to use vultr, linode, AWS. But DO's interface and the wonderful, comprehensive support documents are a huge huge differentiator. We aren't using too many instances, (just 3, nothing complex, no webapps). And, with their interface and support docs, this is something I've managed to do on my own without any major issues. And I suspect I'm not the only one in such a situation.. I was ok with the older prices; with the new, lower rates, I'm not even going to consider moving, even if the competitors are at 1/2 the cost. It's not worth the little money I might save...