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I love DO for projects where I don't need control. For my side project, I eventually migrated to AWS after running into a lot of issues with DO. Things like t

I love DO for projects where I don't need control. For my side project, I eventually migrated to AWS after running into a lot of issues with DO. Things like they don't give you the postgres root user on their managed postgres. And I ran into issues trying to capture the deployments in code. Their terraform providers are pretty good, but still leave something to be desired. For all its many warts, I'm much happier back on AWS. It did end up more expensive, but it's worth it for the fine grained control in my case. But I spent the last 5 years as a DevOps/SRE, so... uh... I'm picky.

danielvaughn 3y ago
That's interesting, because granular control is why I enjoy DO, although I'm thinking about it from the server perspective. They set up a machine, give me root access, and that's literally it. I set up my own ssh keys, firewalls, and there's no additional abstraction that I have to learn. I might just be reminiscing because right now I'm on a team where we're writing terraform/helm/k8s in GCP and it makes me want to cry myself to sleep each night lol.
steve_adams_86 3y ago
Those are good things to know. I’ve been wondering about their managed databases recently, so I’ll keep that in mind. I’m nowhere near as picky as you are, but maybe I’ll need to be at some point. As it is I mostly just build stuff and send it to the internet. If it builds and it does what I expected, I’m pretty happy! I don’t often need anything too special.