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Is this DO specific? Aren't there other hosting providers with competitive rates, or is there something about DO that makes it especially good for this sort of

Is this DO specific? Aren't there other hosting providers with competitive rates, or is there something about DO that makes it especially good for this sort of thing?

TedDoesntTalk 3y ago
There are many, many US and UK hosting providers with the same price: $5/month VPS with 1 GB ram, 1 virtual CPU, and 1 TB bandwidth
ronnier 3y ago
No it's not DO specific. It's just that DO is popular for whatever reason.
- dylan604 3y ago
  There's probably some HOW-TO that was created that went through the process using DO, so now everyone else using it now also uses DO.
- kobalsky 3y ago
  > for whatever reason it's very, very, very simple to use. some people can't even navigate AWS or GCP, not to mention that the pricing is unclear as it can be. for people learning by practice it's a nightmare.
  - transcriptase 3y ago
    The fact that there's an entire consulting industry around helping people figure out very basic pricing for very basic tasks on AWS should be a wake-up call that their documentation and calculators are awful. Then again I'm sure there's no incentive to improve it, since if for whatever reason you were laid off from AWS... you could have a lucrative consulting gig the next day helping people with the blindingly obvious consumer pain points you refused to resolve.
    - nefitty 3y ago
      Reminds me of this thread: > "Yeah you won’t figure those APIs out from the documentation. It was on purpose. You have to go buy the book." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36953592 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36953592
    - wongarsu 3y ago
      I'm pretty sure one of the major reasons AWS is useful to large companies is that it removes prices and billing as far as possible from the place where you actually create resources. This enables people to just do stuff without the usual red tape involved in buying something. If you want to see pieces as you do stuff you can go to the Google Cloud
  - ghaff 3y ago
    While it’s less applicable to the VPS options, the open ended pricing of AWS and GCP gives people starting out or with very little monetary slack a lot of heartburn. And you do still need to have an account that covers the whole kahuna.
- KomoD 3y ago
  Because they give out free credits, and they suck at handling abuse, both of those attract bad actors
kjs3 3y ago
It's not DO specific, per se, but relatively speaking DO is a big enough player to notice in a sea of bottom feeders.
wongarsu 3y ago
If all you want are virtual servers (==droplets), DO is one of the more expensive options around. Of course substantially cheaper than AWS/Azure/GCP, but much more expensive than Hetzner/OVH/Netcup or anything on lowendboxes.com). What DO has is some of the best content marketing around (great tutorials on server stuff) and scale. The first attacts beginners (which includes most of the spammers and hackers), the second puts them on people's radar.

Is this DO specific? Aren't there other hosting providers with competitive rates, or is there something about DO that makes it especially good for this sort of thing?

TedDoesntTalk 3y ago

There are many, many US and UK hosting providers with the same price: $5/month VPS with 1 GB ram, 1 virtual CPU, and 1 TB bandwidth

ronnier 3y ago

No it's not DO specific. It's just that DO is popular for whatever reason.

dylan604 3y ago
There's probably some HOW-TO that was created that went through the process using DO, so now everyone else using it now also uses DO.
kobalsky 3y ago
> for whatever reason it's very, very, very simple to use. some people can't even navigate AWS or GCP, not to mention that the pricing is unclear as it can be. for people learning by practice it's a nightmare.
- transcriptase 3y ago
  The fact that there's an entire consulting industry around helping people figure out very basic pricing for very basic tasks on AWS should be a wake-up call that their documentation and calculators are awful. Then again I'm sure there's no incentive to improve it, since if for whatever reason you were laid off from AWS... you could have a lucrative consulting gig the next day helping people with the blindingly obvious consumer pain points you refused to resolve.
  - nefitty 3y ago
    Reminds me of this thread: > "Yeah you won’t figure those APIs out from the documentation. It was on purpose. You have to go buy the book." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36953592 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36953592
  - wongarsu 3y ago
    I'm pretty sure one of the major reasons AWS is useful to large companies is that it removes prices and billing as far as possible from the place where you actually create resources. This enables people to just do stuff without the usual red tape involved in buying something. If you want to see pieces as you do stuff you can go to the Google Cloud
- ghaff 3y ago
  While it’s less applicable to the VPS options, the open ended pricing of AWS and GCP gives people starting out or with very little monetary slack a lot of heartburn. And you do still need to have an account that covers the whole kahuna.
KomoD 3y ago
Because they give out free credits, and they suck at handling abuse, both of those attract bad actors

kjs3 3y ago

It's not DO specific, per se, but relatively speaking DO is a big enough player to notice in a sea of bottom feeders.

wongarsu 3y ago

If all you want are virtual servers (==droplets), DO is one of the more expensive options around. Of course substantially cheaper than AWS/Azure/GCP, but much more expensive than Hetzner/OVH/Netcup or anything on lowendboxes.com). What DO has is some of the best content marketing around (great tutorials on server stuff) and scale. The first attacts beginners (which includes most of the spammers and hackers), the second puts them on people's radar.