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Were they ever 'new' in anything? I use them for small personal projects (they've gotten a lot more stable recently). I never thought of them as an innovative c
by parhamn 8y ago
Were they ever 'new' in anything? I use them for small personal projects (they've gotten a lot more stable recently). I never thought of them as an innovative cloud provider but just one that was cheap and easy.
- chrisweekly 8y agoSame here. IME, DO is a great choice for many projects, because it's inexpensive, straightforward and reliable. I wouldn't trade any of those 3 attributes for "innovative".
- hinkley 8y agoYou remember a few years back when "performance is a feature"? Well, sanity is also a feature. When none of your competitors are doing it, then it starts to look like innovation. I mean, the transparent fee structure alone is why I push dabblers toward DO. I'm looking at you, AWS.
- quickthrower2 8y agoTo me they are closer to the classic hosting companies, the ones where you can get a "Virtual Private Server" for $20/month rather than "Some Ether" for $0.0000001 / weird unit.
- btashton 8y agoThere was a window where they were a nice option for small SSD backed instances when EC2 was still doing low performance spinning disks for their bottom tier.
- mike_j 8y agofirst only ssd host.