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They also have some of the best technical documentation on the web.
by staticautomatic 6y ago
They also have some of the best technical documentation on the web.
- 52-6F-62 6y agoThey really do. And it goes in tangents and details I wouldn't have expected. Their support is great.
- skrtskrt 6y agoAs I started learning how to spin up and manage Linux servers and then deploy my own (unmanaged) k8s on them, half of my bookmarks are DO documentation.
- bredren 6y agoContent growth done right.
- sdfhbdf 6y agoYep great SEO Strategy and raising Brand awarness. Win-win for people searching. Find out about how to install nginx on Ubuntu and then memorize that next time you need a VM you go that blue website with great tutorials.
- sjs382 6y agoThis is a major reason that I became a customer and have been for 8+ years.
- FlashBlaze 6y agoCouldn't agree more. I wanted to setup nginx and add users in the sudo group and almost always their articles were the first to appear.
- tweetle_beetle 6y agoI'm sure their own documentation is good, but certainly early on the tutorials always seemed to be a mess. Lots of similar articles written by different people with different structures and advice, without referencing other related tutorials. There seemed to be very little in the way of editorial control, but maybe that's better now. It was a good, cheap content strategy for SEO, but not a genuinely good resource.
- vinger 6y agoHaving 5 people install slightly different varations of a stack provided so much value it was and still is the best resource when installing a new stack.
- dumbsecreport 6y agoThats because a lot of it was lifted directly from the web. They paid people a stupid price per article to either write articles or copy paste documentation online while barely vetting it, only taking it down when people took the time to send in reports to staff. I'm sure things have improved since then.
- KingFelix 6y agoI agree, I had limited knowledge on a few things and was able to get it all sorted with their guides. I think they offered an exchange of credits for tutorials or something. My favorite part of their guides, the drop downs to pick your version. Google can give me results to a simple ubuntu question that is ten years old, they had the option to pick which version you were using to get you the correct guides. Brilliant
- sitkack 6y agoI hold up this part of DO as one of the single best uses of the amazing tech writers our industry has, under appreciated and under paid, to punch way above their weight in a crowded market. Really really well done DO!