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I've still had absolutely no issues with my running droplets, though space is getting very tight in AMS1 at times when creating new ones. Their support is excel

by nwh 13y ago

I've still had absolutely no issues with my running droplets, though space is getting very tight in AMS1 at times when creating new ones. Their support is excellent even if you have a very specific question about their network, there's none of the fluffing around I've seen with other providers. It's cost effective even for my non-existent budget. Put simply, I'm pleased as punch. I'm not usually vocally supportive of companies, but they're doing quite a good job: this article is a little undeserved.

neom 13y ago
We're going to be making an announcement about AMS late this week / early next.
- nwh 13y ago
  Excited, thanks!
larrys 13y ago
"with my running droplets" Personally, I hate new names like this for old things.. [1] Stop making up names for things. My brain doesn't want to learn a new language for something that can easily be called by the legacy name. It's wasted time and slows things down. (I'm exaggerating a bit of course but why do I have to learn something new of no value to me? And I'm reading this and someone is commenting calling things droplets and now I have to do a search to find out what a droplet is...) Reminds me of some of Spike Lee's first films where he was more concerned with coming up with some creative oddity that could be linked to him. (If you've ever taken a film class you probably remember the prof talking about something that Hitchcock was doing in the film that had never been done before.) [1] From DO website: "DigitalOcean calls its virtual servers, droplets; each droplet that you spin up is a new virtual server for your personal use. "
- chc 13y ago
  I agree with this in many cases, but "Droplets" is really not difficult. Some providers invent whole new languages for perfectly mundane things. Digital Ocean just brands their virtual servers in a very straightforward way.
  - larrys 13y ago
    If they were simply differentiating between different levels of servers then I would agree. (Just like people call things "gold" "bronze" "silver" etc.) But while it is an easy word (and it's "cute") it is different and strictly for branding over something that already is well understood and known. Why do it?
    - aioprisan 13y ago
      This is no different that amazon EC2 naming servers "instances"
      - tbrownaw 13y ago
        You are in a maze of twisty little rooms, all alike. "Instance" has a very well defined meaning, which leads to some standard implications. It means one particulate <thing> out of several, which are all alike. It implies that your <thing>, and in fact all <thing>s, has (have) no physical reality. It implies that <thing>s can be created and destroyed at will. It is also completely generic. You can have EC2 instances, ${APPLICATION} instances, object instances (in absolutely any object-oriented language, and several that aren't), database instances, etc. A virtual private server is a cheap knock-off of a real physical server. A server instance is something you get from an API instead of having to hire a guy to plug things in.
        aioprisan 13y ago
        In the context of servers, I have never seen other web hosting platforms use the term "instance," in the context of on-demand server instance vs. just give me a server. While it seems commonplace now, I don't recall reading about other hosting platforms referring to their services as instances. Can you point to literature that does? For instance, from http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/ http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/ : "You can think of instances as virtual servers that can run applications." That's the AWS context of instances.
    - nwh 13y ago
- kossmoboleat 13y ago
  I agree wholeheartedly. Especially in the domain of cloud providers the terms are very unclear. I suppose that's "cloud" is already such an extremely vague term. I've written a short blog post about the over-use of buzzword in software here: http://timbenke.de/?p=881 http://timbenke.de/?p=881
- corobo 13y ago
  Yes but they're droplets in a Digital Ocean. In this specific case I think it works very well with their branding. If they'd have called it a Virtual Private Dedicated Serverlet or invented yet another useless acronym (YAUA, of course) I'd be agreeing, but droplet is simple and easy and as a bonus helps avoid the immediate "This is too techy for me!" attitude you can get when trying to convince a shared server user that the reason their site keeps going offline is because they need to upgrade to something better

by nwh 13y ago

neom 13y ago

We're going to be making an announcement about AMS late this week / early next.

nwh 13y ago
Excited, thanks!

larrys 13y ago

"with my running droplets" Personally, I hate new names like this for old things.. [1] Stop making up names for things. My brain doesn't want to learn a new language for something that can easily be called by the legacy name. It's wasted time and slows things down. (I'm exaggerating a bit of course but why do I have to learn something new of no value to me? And I'm reading this and someone is commenting calling things droplets and now I have to do a search to find out what a droplet is...) Reminds me of some of Spike Lee's first films where he was more concerned with coming up with some creative oddity that could be linked to him. (If you've ever taken a film class you probably remember the prof talking about something that Hitchcock was doing in the film that had never been done before.) [1] From DO website: "DigitalOcean calls its virtual servers, droplets; each droplet that you spin up is a new virtual server for your personal use. "

chc 13y ago
I agree with this in many cases, but "Droplets" is really not difficult. Some providers invent whole new languages for perfectly mundane things. Digital Ocean just brands their virtual servers in a very straightforward way.
- larrys 13y ago
  If they were simply differentiating between different levels of servers then I would agree. (Just like people call things "gold" "bronze" "silver" etc.) But while it is an easy word (and it's "cute") it is different and strictly for branding over something that already is well understood and known. Why do it?
  - aioprisan 13y ago
    This is no different that amazon EC2 naming servers "instances"
    - tbrownaw 13y ago
      You are in a maze of twisty little rooms, all alike. "Instance" has a very well defined meaning, which leads to some standard implications. It means one particulate <thing> out of several, which are all alike. It implies that your <thing>, and in fact all <thing>s, has (have) no physical reality. It implies that <thing>s can be created and destroyed at will. It is also completely generic. You can have EC2 instances, ${APPLICATION} instances, object instances (in absolutely any object-oriented language, and several that aren't), database instances, etc. A virtual private server is a cheap knock-off of a real physical server. A server instance is something you get from an API instead of having to hire a guy to plug things in.
      - aioprisan 13y ago
        In the context of servers, I have never seen other web hosting platforms use the term "instance," in the context of on-demand server instance vs. just give me a server. While it seems commonplace now, I don't recall reading about other hosting platforms referring to their services as instances. Can you point to literature that does? For instance, from http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/ http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/ : "You can think of instances as virtual servers that can run applications." That's the AWS context of instances.
  - nwh 13y ago
kossmoboleat 13y ago
I agree wholeheartedly. Especially in the domain of cloud providers the terms are very unclear. I suppose that's "cloud" is already such an extremely vague term. I've written a short blog post about the over-use of buzzword in software here: http://timbenke.de/?p=881 http://timbenke.de/?p=881
corobo 13y ago
Yes but they're droplets in a Digital Ocean. In this specific case I think it works very well with their branding. If they'd have called it a Virtual Private Dedicated Serverlet or invented yet another useless acronym (YAUA, of course) I'd be agreeing, but droplet is simple and easy and as a bonus helps avoid the immediate "This is too techy for me!" attitude you can get when trying to convince a shared server user that the reason their site keeps going offline is because they need to upgrade to something better