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I was getting really close to switching to another cloud hosting provider due to the lack of private networks. Great to see that Digital Ocean is staying a step

by iand675 13y ago

I was getting really close to switching to another cloud hosting provider due to the lack of private networks. Great to see that Digital Ocean is staying a step ahead.

Goranek 13y ago
isn't DO technically a VPS and not cloud provider?
- ksec 13y ago
  I dont normally count Host with Per Minute billing and Storage in SAN a VPS.
  - Goranek 13y ago
    I think disks are local
    - ksec 13y ago
      I am pretty sure they are not.
    - Goranek 13y ago
      Can you please provide a reference? Thanks
    - ampsonic 13y ago
      Local RAID of SSD.
- zagi 13y ago
  A cloud is not defined by high availability. Just look at Amazon's cloud - so many single points of failure. Amazon says to distribute your application and redundancy across multiple redundancy zones. Cloud is defined as: 1. On demand automated provisioning 2. API interface for programatic control 3. Infinite resources from the customer's perspective 4. Virtual addresses for physical location 5. Utility measured service This is the definition from NIST : http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-145/SP800-145.pdf http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-145/SP800-145... So in that context DigitalOcean and Amazon are both Cloud providers.
- adventured 13y ago
  Isn't it all the cloud? A dedicated host could be called a dedicated cloud provider. They give every customer their own cloud. Mostly it's a marketing gimmick. What DO is, is a variation of dividing server resources, whether we use the term cloud or VPS or other.
raiyu 13y ago
Glad we got you to stick around! =]