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DigitalOcean is established. They're newer than GCP and about the same age as Azure, and IIRC at one point were the second largest VPS provider, second only to
by txcwpalpha 7y ago
DigitalOcean is established. They're newer than GCP and about the same age as Azure, and IIRC at one point were the second largest VPS provider, second only to AWS.
And unfortunately this stuff happens to your "established" examples as well. Here [1] is a particular example of Google shutting down an entire GCP account with no explanation. Some comments report the same on AWS as well. Ironically, people in that HN thread are actually suggesting Vultr (kinda like DO, but even smaller) as a good alternative.
1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17431609 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17431609
- julianlam 7y agoWe rely almost exclusively on DigitalOcean and the stories about Google shutting down accounts really gives me pause. It's not an isolated incident either, and raising support is next to impossible, so I hear. I'm lucky enough that my spend with DO is high enough to qualify for support, so if this ever happened to me at least I know I'd get a couple chances to make things right Were this to happen on GCP I'm fairly certain they'd just black hole my account since I'm spare change to them.