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Hi! 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
by bphogan 8y ago
Hi! 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.
- skissane 8y ago> no ‘max 10 servers’ kind of rules You can contact their Support to get that increased. Just guessing at the reason, but if there was no limit, what happens if someone hacks your account and spins up a 100,000 node cryptocurrency mining farm?
- rolleiflex 8y agoThe same thing applies to AWS, and AWS doesn't have '10 servers maximum' limit. Beyond anything, it tells people about their target audience, which is indie development. That's fine, and it's a great market to be in. But in the case I have to spin up 17 servers in 24 hours in three continents, I can't really afford to deal with DigitalOcean's support under that kind of stress. This doesn't happen often, but when it happens, it absolutely breaks you.
- amichal 8y agoAWS also has a initial soft limit on EC2 instances. I dont remember what it is but its <100
- rolleiflex 8y agoYeah, I’m sure they have — It’s just that AWS’ limits are a lot more compatible with a startup (vs an indie developer) than DigitalOcean’s.
- Drdrdrq 8y agoFWIW, I find AWS limits confusing and seemingly random. Also, the fact that you can't limit total spending is _very_ unfriendly to (at least indie, as you point out) developers. I have no experience with DO though, maybe that will change with this offering.
- dwrowe 8y agoHave you actually dealt with their support though? Your example of going from (seemingly) zero servers to 17 across 3 continents in 24 hours (indicating unforeseen absolutely incredible traction and growth) seems significantly less likely than getting a response from their support team increasing usage limits within the same timeframe.
- velobro 8y agoGot a personal Nextcloud instance going with DO and your documentation has been an amazing help. Hats off to you and the rest of the team.
- wesammikhail 8y agoSeriously though, your tutorials are probably the reason most people I know have used DO. You guys do an amazing job with those!
- calgoo 8y agoAs a Linux SysAdmin I love coming across a tutorial from DigitalOcean when Im searching for a howto because I can always be sure that they will be updated, well written and very complete. A big thank you to you and the rest of the team!
- lunchables 8y agoI've run across DigitalOcean tutorials that helped me out many times. You all do great work, thanks.
- lnenad 8y agoYour tutorials are simple and down to the point, just the way they should be. I became a customer thanks to the tutorials, and I haven't looked back.
- max23_ 8y agoAlways come back to DO for the concisely written tutorials. Thumbs up for the good work.
- thomnottom 8y agoI'm a customer, but half the time I'm using your tutorials it's for home projects not my VPS. Really great job!
- tom169 8y agoThank you. The tutorials have been very valuable over the years.
- marmot777 8y agoKeep up the good work!
- Kihashi 8y ago> DigitalOcean has fullfilled my needs in the most perfect way with a huge knowledge base and detailed tutorials. Agreed. The while I liked the price point and the UI, the tutorials were leagues ahead of everything else.