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DO's kubernetes release is an an example of why I am a big fan. As a sole developer, I can't afford high technical debt, but DO packages tech in a way I can man
by talkingtab 8y ago
DO's kubernetes release is an an example of why I am a big fan. As a sole developer, I can't afford high technical debt, but DO packages tech in a way I can manage. I hope they keep on and wish other services (here's looking at you AWS) would package their services as well.
- movedx 8y agoCombine it with Terraform and you're winning the Internet.
- djsumdog 8y agoI ran into some limitations with Terraform and at the time it didn't support Vultr, so I ended up writing my own provisioner. It goes a bit further with setting up DNS records as well and I rolled in some of my own Docker deploy stuff into it; although in retrospect I should have made that a different project. https://github.com/sumdog/bee2 https://github.com/sumdog/bee2
- ramses0 8y agohttps://github.com/squat/terraform-provider-vultr https://github.com/squat/terraform-provider-vultr Pointing this out... I've gotten a bit of basics working with vultr + terraform but it's not the most straightforward. I'm not the author, but an interested observer. In my searches for vultr + terraform, your project never came up, but there seems to be some overlap or room for collaboration.
- fermienrico 8y agoI am a mechanical engineer who dabbles in web development from time to time. I am forever indebted to DigitalOcean for creating a super easy platform for someone who has no clue about VPS starting out. I know how to operate a linux machine but not the slightest idea about how to host a website myself until I came across DigitalOcean and their LAMP/LEMP tutorials. Once I was comfortable with DigitalOcean, I tried launching a VPS on AWS and holycrap it was so insanely complicated. Within 10 mins of creating an AWS account, I was out. I understand that there is nothing wrong with AWS - it is not for me, but DigitalOcean has fullfilled my needs in the most perfect way with a huge knowledge base and detailed tutorials. DigitalOcean is absolutely incredible.
- Donzo 8y agoI bounced around hosting providers for years until I landed on DO. I have nothing but good things to say about them.
- bphogan 8y agoHi! I'm a member of the Community team at DigitalOcean. I wanted to thank you for your kind words about our tutorials. This kind of feedback means a lot to us. We're glad we could help you get your web site set up.
- speedster217 8y agoJust want to add on to this. Whenever I'm looking up a piece of software and I find a Digital Ocean tutorial on it, I know I'm in good hands. Have yet to find a tutorial that wasn't great!
- marmot777 8y agoAmen. DO gets it when it comes to docs.
- Fomite 8y agoChiming in as well. You guys do solid work, and have untangled me more often than I can count.
- chrisan 8y agoYour guides and tutorials are at the same level as stackoverflow for figuring out problems How do I fix this: stackoverflow first hit How do I do this: if DO isn’t first hit already I scroll down to yours
- baby_wipe 8y agoThe Django -> Ubuntu tutorials are amazing. Thank you.
- rolleiflex 8y agoThanks for the tutorials and for keeping them up to date. I’m probably not their target audience for the most part, but when I need to do something in an unfamiliar stack, [stack name] + digitalocean is usually my first search. Wish you guys had a little more of a professional oriented products (think AWS/GCP) and no ‘max 10 servers’ kind of rules so I could use it.
- ineedasername 8y agoYep, you can find cheaper VPS out there but for reliability and ease of use it's hard to beat. As for AWS, it's hard to beat AWS for the scope of services they offer, but at the scale of a handful of DO droplets, it's just not worth the effort it takes in AWS.
- dustinmr 8y agoAs we’re layering on praise, I’d like to pile on. I’m a partner in a company in Puerto Rico. Last year immediately after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, I wrote all of our off-island service providers asking for any help they could provide. DO was one of the most generous responses. They donated 3 months of services based on our average billing. We greatly appreciated it, and the nice note they sent me showed they’re not only great at providing a good product, but they’re eminently human as well. Congrats on the launch to them.
- nojvek 8y agoI believe it’s small things like this that separate the under dogs from the Giants. The giants are good if you are a huge Corp like Apple, for the little guys DO is amazing.
- sonnyblarney 8y agoDO's prices are why I'm a fan.
- aviv 8y agoWe are heavy users of GCP and AWS, but still use DO for bandwidth-heavy workloads.
- sonnyblarney 8y agoAWS bandwidth charges are brutal, they are the secret billing item that kills products. It can't make sense to host any kind of web anything when paying 10 cents / Gig egress charges. If you have images at all ... nogo. It's really odd, like they don't want your business because that's definitely one line item that always makes me keep my eye on the exit.
- rb666 8y agoThis I don't understand, there's a million cheaper VPS providers. I can understand choosing DO cause it's hip and they have great tutorials, but price? Nope.
- ohashi 8y agoThey hit a balance of price, simplicity and I'm sure they will be there tomorrow though.
- geerlingguy 8y agoThat and as a user of 12 different LowEndBox-style providers, DigitalOcean is only marginally more expensive, with way less downtime, faster support response, an easy to use API, integrations with everything, and even planned maintenance windows which are clearly communicated. Most of the lower priced options are run on a more shoestring budget and get uptime measured in the 98s. Also, I find a lot more noisy neighbors with many LEB-style providers.
- homero 8y agoAws has as light sail