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This 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.

by rb666 8y ago

ohashi 8y ago
They hit a balance of price, simplicity and I'm sure they will be there tomorrow though.
- geerlingguy 8y ago
  That 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.
  - StudentStuff 8y ago
    Perhaps OVH is worth a gander, I find it strikes a good balance between DO's pricing and the LowEndTalk providers, yet the uptime is still impressive. https://www.ovh.com/world/vps/vps-ssd.xml https://www.ovh.com/world/vps/vps-ssd.xml
    - thejosh 8y ago
      OVH is horrendous for their dedicated offering, especially when trying to cancel. Their webapp wouldn't work, they wanted me to do an API call to cancel, as they couldn't fix their UI.
      - StudentStuff 8y ago
        Huh, I haven't had this issue on any of their brands. They tend to catch and fix most issues before I become aware on the dedicated machines I have with them. FYI OVH is a key contributor to OpenStack, they've made quite a few contributions to Ceph, sponsored LetsEncrypt, and host most game servers (and even Wikileaks!).
      - c16 8y ago
        Adding to this, I once bought their hosted container service, and when I contacted them they told me they no longer supported this product. How?! Why was I able to order it in the first place?!
    - subbu 8y ago
      I am a long time user of OVH. I don't care about fancy UI; I have hardly used it to get anything done except pay bills. I just wish they open a data center in India. That's the reason I was looking at DO; they have a DC in Bangalore.
      - 1996 8y ago
        1000x time this. OVH only has a bad datacenter in Singapore. I tried and left. OVHs need to be in India and East Asia to interest me again.
        StudentStuff 8y ago
        Bandwidth and power are too expensive in most of Asia, OVH's business model is founded on building DCs next to cheap, plentiful power, then peering at the surrounding IXes for bandwidth. Most of the local IXes in Asia do not have local incumbent carriers participating, and those incumbents want hellish rates to peer. Routing in Asia will remain crappy due to these peering problems, and volume wholesalers will be few and far between so long as power is spendy.

This 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.

by rb666 8y ago

This 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 ago

They hit a balance of price, simplicity and I'm sure they will be there tomorrow though.

geerlingguy 8y ago
That 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.
- StudentStuff 8y ago
  Perhaps OVH is worth a gander, I find it strikes a good balance between DO's pricing and the LowEndTalk providers, yet the uptime is still impressive. https://www.ovh.com/world/vps/vps-ssd.xml https://www.ovh.com/world/vps/vps-ssd.xml
  - thejosh 8y ago
    OVH is horrendous for their dedicated offering, especially when trying to cancel. Their webapp wouldn't work, they wanted me to do an API call to cancel, as they couldn't fix their UI.
    - StudentStuff 8y ago
      Huh, I haven't had this issue on any of their brands. They tend to catch and fix most issues before I become aware on the dedicated machines I have with them. FYI OVH is a key contributor to OpenStack, they've made quite a few contributions to Ceph, sponsored LetsEncrypt, and host most game servers (and even Wikileaks!).
    - c16 8y ago
      Adding to this, I once bought their hosted container service, and when I contacted them they told me they no longer supported this product. How?! Why was I able to order it in the first place?!
  - subbu 8y ago
    I am a long time user of OVH. I don't care about fancy UI; I have hardly used it to get anything done except pay bills. I just wish they open a data center in India. That's the reason I was looking at DO; they have a DC in Bangalore.
    - 1996 8y ago
      1000x time this. OVH only has a bad datacenter in Singapore. I tried and left. OVHs need to be in India and East Asia to interest me again.
      - StudentStuff 8y ago
        Bandwidth and power are too expensive in most of Asia, OVH's business model is founded on building DCs next to cheap, plentiful power, then peering at the surrounding IXes for bandwidth. Most of the local IXes in Asia do not have local incumbent carriers participating, and those incumbents want hellish rates to peer. Routing in Asia will remain crappy due to these peering problems, and volume wholesalers will be few and far between so long as power is spendy.