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That explains the pingdom notification. So, Digital Ocean is looking pretty good right now. Edit: New Jersey data center.
by jaibot 13y ago
That explains the pingdom notification.
So, Digital Ocean is looking pretty good right now.
Edit: New Jersey data center.
- jd007 13y agoI'm a bit turned off by their (Digital Ocean) features page, in the SSD section, where they implied that SATA means traditional spindle-based HDDs. I kind of expect a cloud server host to know the proper terminology for these things. It's probably an editor's mistake but still... Quote from Digital Ocean Features page: "With our SSD hard drives, you can expect much faster disk i/o performance when compared to a traditional storage medium (e.g. SATA)"
- ckeck 13y agoThey likely just called it out like that here because so many other hosting providers use that as standard terminology.
- idev247 13y agoCan't really judge a service by their marketing. A company might have kick-ass benchmarks but a shitty site. Look at Linode. Their site design looks like it's still 2005.
- ciclista 13y agoFYI I created a test account last Friday and got some of the worst service I've had in 10 years of hosting stuff online.
- jaibot 13y agoI've had no problems with my tiny node in the few days I've had it - what problems did you run into, so I can be on the lookout?
- ciclista 13y agoI didn't even get to create a "droplet", the instance kept failing. I contacted support about a refund (I created the account to work on a small personal project for the weekend) and I was given the run-around, "there were issues and they were working on it", then they told me it was probably my issue (I forgot to "fill in a field"), etc. etc. Took 3 days to get my money back. I'm sure it was an outlier since I've seen a decent amount of positive reviews, but support was terrible, and I think the way a company handles situations like this pretty telling.