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DigitalOcean announces second Amsterdam datacenter

51 points by Leftb 13y ago

alixaxel 13y ago
They are also A/B giving a $10 promo credit by email to some users apparently.
- neom 13y ago
  a/b? Don't think so....??
  - alixaxel 13y ago
    I got two emails from them (I had two separate accounts with Gmail + aliases). In one of them, they offered me $10, the other they didn't.
colszowka 13y ago
Yay! And private networking, too!
tlongren 13y ago
Awesome. The private network offering is what finally got me to move some sites to DigitalOcean. Haven't looked back, I love it.
- Kudos 13y ago
  I'm still waiting on an official response to this[1] before I'd even consider it. I went so far as to email the CEO (after receiving marketing mail from his address) and got no response. [1] http://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digital-ocean/suggestions/4141790-pooled-bandwidth http://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digital-ocea...
marban 13y ago
DO's offering is certainly refreshing but why does a single provider get that many upvotes on basically any customary amendment? They are nothing more than what Mediatemple is/was to the designer fraction.
- beachstartup 13y ago
  because it's trendy. people like trends, especially the technology industry. larry ellison has an interesting rant about this on youtube.
  - marban 13y ago
    I know... "Cloud computing means using a computer that's out there"
- colszowka 13y ago
  This is actually somewhat big news because, considering the relative popularity of Digital Ocean, this alleviates 2 blocker pain points for european customers: * The AMS1 region used to be out of available droplets quite frequently, and in recent weeks it was entirely unavailable to book new ones (at least for me)- which is bad news for scaling existing installs. * The AMS1 region did not have private networking The fixing of these two points with the new region makes it much more reasonable to deploy multi-node environments to this region.
xutopia 13y ago
I've noticed that performance has been reduced greatly lately on their offering. Has anyone else noticed this? Also had a few machines randomly reboot. /edit Just now I'm unable to join using the console access on a few of my droplets. I'm on a pretty fast internet connection (60MBps).
- shiftpgdn 13y ago
  I've been having similar issues hitting the OOM killer on RHEL/CentOS with only 90-160mb of ram used total on the 512mb droplets.
- neom 13y ago
  Curious about the performance hits you're experiencing, feel free to reach out to me directly.
  - xutopia 13y ago
    "Failed to establish a connection to the console. Please reload." is what I'm getting on most hosts I'm running on.
colszowka 13y ago
There seems to be a heavy rush on the region at the moment, creating a 1gb box took 17 minutes, now I'm waiting for 5 minutes for a power-off to enable private networking... `sudo shutdown` worked, but the admin job queue seems to not check on that. I'll try again tomorrow :)

51 points by Leftb 13y ago

alixaxel 13y ago

They are also A/B giving a $10 promo credit by email to some users apparently.

neom 13y ago
a/b? Don't think so....??
- alixaxel 13y ago
  I got two emails from them (I had two separate accounts with Gmail + aliases). In one of them, they offered me $10, the other they didn't.

colszowka 13y ago

Yay! And private networking, too!

tlongren 13y ago

Awesome. The private network offering is what finally got me to move some sites to DigitalOcean. Haven't looked back, I love it.

Kudos 13y ago
I'm still waiting on an official response to this[1] before I'd even consider it. I went so far as to email the CEO (after receiving marketing mail from his address) and got no response. [1] http://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digital-ocean/suggestions/4141790-pooled-bandwidth http://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digital-ocea...

marban 13y ago

DO's offering is certainly refreshing but why does a single provider get that many upvotes on basically any customary amendment? They are nothing more than what Mediatemple is/was to the designer fraction.

beachstartup 13y ago
because it's trendy. people like trends, especially the technology industry. larry ellison has an interesting rant about this on youtube.
- marban 13y ago
  I know... "Cloud computing means using a computer that's out there"
colszowka 13y ago
This is actually somewhat big news because, considering the relative popularity of Digital Ocean, this alleviates 2 blocker pain points for european customers: * The AMS1 region used to be out of available droplets quite frequently, and in recent weeks it was entirely unavailable to book new ones (at least for me)- which is bad news for scaling existing installs. * The AMS1 region did not have private networking The fixing of these two points with the new region makes it much more reasonable to deploy multi-node environments to this region.

xutopia 13y ago

I've noticed that performance has been reduced greatly lately on their offering. Has anyone else noticed this? Also had a few machines randomly reboot. /edit Just now I'm unable to join using the console access on a few of my droplets. I'm on a pretty fast internet connection (60MBps).

shiftpgdn 13y ago
I've been having similar issues hitting the OOM killer on RHEL/CentOS with only 90-160mb of ram used total on the 512mb droplets.
neom 13y ago
Curious about the performance hits you're experiencing, feel free to reach out to me directly.
- xutopia 13y ago
  "Failed to establish a connection to the console. Please reload." is what I'm getting on most hosts I'm running on.

colszowka 13y ago

There seems to be a heavy rush on the region at the moment, creating a 1gb box took 17 minutes, now I'm waiting for 5 minutes for a power-off to enable private networking... `sudo shutdown` worked, but the admin job queue seems to not check on that. I'll try again tomorrow :)