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Could have been predicted seven years ago. Kudos for making it longer than expected.

• fragmede 7y ago
  Hindsight is 20/20. Linode (founded 16 years ago), and Digital Ocean (founded 8 years ago), are still alive and kicking, not to mention more traditional hosting companies like HostGator.
  • nailer 7y ago
    DigitalOcean have no serverless product and just spent a bunch of engineering resources on a new customer-managed Kubernetes setup. The amount of people who are unsatisfied with DO's VM product and would be satisfied with a k8s product is tiny. The amount of people who would like somewhere to run functions and not care at all about infrastructure is growing rapidly. If they're not skating to where the puck is moving they won't be around much longer.
    • johannes1234321 7y ago
      I won't neccisarily agree. There is space for "simple" hosting for some thing which is a bit more than just a (static/wordpreess) website, but not a large application, where cloud tooling setup is beneficial.
      • nailer 7y ago
        Sure but how much is that market growing?
        • johannes1234321 7y ago
          As long as it is sustainable business it should be fine for companies in this domain.
    • dboreham 7y ago
      Hmm...you can fairly easily (haha) layer functions/serverless over K8s, e.g. with projects like OpenFaas.
      • nailer 7y ago
        Sure but why manage your own OpenFaaS when you're already paying a cloud provider and the billing will still be 24x7?