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DigitalOcean banned me because I was using their server to fetch chromium's source code so that I could git-bundle/rsync it's 12 GB mammoth of a repo and downlo
by checker659 13y ago
DigitalOcean banned me because I was using their server to fetch chromium's source code so that I could git-bundle/rsync it's 12 GB mammoth of a repo and download it to the third-world country that I live in (my network connection is really bad even though it's the best money can buy). Apparently I violated their TOS. As long as they limit their TOS to such narrow purposes as hosting a wordpress site or doing straight-forward things, I don't think they'll get too far. With AWS, amazon doesn't care if I spawn out a 1000 node render farm, as long as I'm paying, it's all fair game.
Good luck anyways.
- mjn 13y ago> With AWS, amazon doesn't care if I spawn out a 1000 node render farm, as long as I'm paying, it's all fair game. For smaller numbers of instances it's true that you can spawn whatever you want and use them for whatever you want, as long as you pay the stated rates. But for larger numbers of instances you do actually have to tell Amazon what you want them for, and your requested use-case "will be considered". You can't just spin up 1000 instances and pay the stated rate without getting prior authorization; the API will block new instances after a certain point. Here are the default instance limits: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/faqs/#How_many_instances_can_I_run_in_Amazon_EC2 http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/faqs/#How_many_instances_can_I_run...
- checker659 13y agoWell, 1000 was just a number I blurted out.
- blueskin_ 13y agoTry Linode. Far better service in every way. I've done similar things on Linode (as well as used it for SSH tunneling to appear in a different country to reality), never a problem.