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Anybody hosting an online business on Digital Ocean (or similar VPS)? All companies I see all use Heruko, AWS or GCP.
by l5870uoo9y 8y ago
Anybody hosting an online business on Digital Ocean (or similar VPS)? All companies I see all use Heruko, AWS or GCP.
- Scarbutt 8y agoNo one, their earnings just appear magically out of the blue.
- mr_toad 8y agoNetcraft ranked them as the second largest web-facing hosting provider a couple of years back, and they seem to be growing rapidly. https://news.netcraft.com/archives/2015/05/01/digitalocean-becomes-the-second-largest-hosting-company-in-the-world.html https://news.netcraft.com/archives/2015/05/01/digitalocean-b... I suspect that DO is a factor in AWS introducing Lightsail.
- james33 8y agoWe've been slowly moving from AWS to DO over the last 6 months due to cost, performance and ease of use. We haven't had any issues and the support has been far superior as well. We wrote up a benchmarking comparison with some reasoning behind the switch: https://goldfirestudios.com/blog/150/Benchmarking-AWS-DigitalOcean-Linode-Packet-and-Vultr https://goldfirestudios.com/blog/150/Benchmarking-AWS-Digita....
- l5870uoo9y 8y agoGreat read, thanks for sharing.