Okay the fact is Digital Ocean (DO) came into existence in early 2011. Yes, the start up is new but the guys behind DO are really old players. The guys behind

Okay the fact is Digital Ocean (DO) came into existence in early 2011. Yes, the start up is new but the guys behind DO are really old players. The guys behind DO had a hosting company called 'Reality Check Network', it was great. They were new that time and if you google about Reality Check Network you will find a bad incident because of which it was shut down. In 2010, their servers were hacked and the attackers corrupted the filesystems which forced them to reformat everything. They were managing around 1,000 servers that time and the backup system in 2010 wouldn't allow them to restore so many servers at once, the only option they had was to do it manually which required 4 man hours of work for each server. And that process could take more than 2 months because of the 4000 odd man hours required to do the job. This was from a long email they sent to their customers, which shows they were transparent and admitted the issue and the problem. ( Unlike many reliable servers which are not being transparent and cause a lot of problem/trust issue. Linode? ) From what it looks like, for almost a month they tried getting all the data back but eventually couldn't so they folded and moved on. Almost 6-8 months later in 2011, they launched DO and been almost 3 years they are doing great. Rather best. No such incident and data is secure. They surely learned their lesson. I would say despite their past, they are the experienced players whom we can trust. Even though they are building their business they are really reliable, affordable and looks like they are here for long. Edit : http://www.inc.com/profile/reality-check-network http://www.inc.com/profile/reality-check-network http://www.crunchbase.com/company/reality-check-network http://www.crunchbase.com/company/reality-check-network