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Ask HN: What's the largest website hosted on Digital Ocean?

45 points by mattwritescode 13y ago

I was wondering what is the largest website you know of being hosted on digital ocean? I am wondering if it is just small websites which use it or whether larger sites are making real use of the service.

program 13y ago
jsFiddle is the biggest according to myip.ms http://myip.ms/view/web_hosting/38903/Digital_Ocean_Inc.html http://myip.ms/view/web_hosting/38903/Digital_Ocean_Inc.html
- mattwritescode 13y ago
  Ah thats quite a cool website.
- antr 13y ago
  would this list include sites that use services like Cloudflare? Client IPs would differ, making it difficult to trace back to the ISP
  - program 13y ago
    I don't think that such list could contain websites under reverse proxies.
aurumpotest 13y ago
What made you ask the question? I've never heard of Digital Ocean before, what's different about them?
- mattwritescode 13y ago
  Digital ocean are a hosting platform. They came into the spot light a year or two ago as offering cheap VPS hosting. They also give you the standard setup images, scaling, etc. I asked the question as i was on there website earlier and I had seen the counter with the number of nodes setup so far; and thought I wonder what the largest site is on there. They are also on the front of hacker news today as they have just completed a new funding round https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7353868 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7353868 Oh and forgot they also only offer SSD disks.
  - nieve 13y ago
    Re SSD disks, as someone who's using both Digital Ocean and Ramnode: For PostgreSQL on smallish data sets (5GB) doing Sphinx reindexes every few minutes Digital Ocean's I/O performance is much lower than Ramnode's KVM SSD instances. Disk benchmarks on the two gave me 5-10x in Ramnode's favor on small instances. Digital Ocean is still pretty decent for a budget provider and Ramnode has all the standard issues of a smaller hoster (and all the advantages), but if I/O performance is critical to you it might be worth taking into account. DO is much slicker, though.
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- rschmitty 13y ago
  Stick around HN a while and you will hear about all the major VPS providers and learn about both the good and bad experiences people have had with ______ provider
h4d35 13y ago
http://www.beyonce.com http://www.beyonce.com http://getflywheel.com/ http://getflywheel.com/ are 2 big sites (in terms of traffice) which are hosted on DigitalOcean, afaik.
- daGrevis 13y ago
  Beyonce website is really cool!
- vidyesh 13y ago
  From the recent article related to DO's $37.2M funding [1] “Flywheel built an entire WordPress hosting service on top of our cloud,” Uretsky said. “They are running over a thousand droplets for their users. The integration is so tight that customers can’t tell that we’re running the service.” Another example, Beyoncé launched her new album in December. It turns out that Beyonce.com runs on DigitalOcean. The servers handled the album launch without breaking a sweat. “We’ve seen 15 million visitors within the first 24 hours. She’s been pretty happy with the service,” Uretsky said. [1]http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/06/digitalocean-raises-37-million-from-andreessen-horowitz/ http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/06/digitalocean-raises-37-mill...
garazy 13y ago
If you count sub-domains on Alexa top domains here's a few big companies in there like iStockPhoto and Debenhams - discover.istockphoto.com store.xda-developers.com support.sharebeast.com finance.debenhams.com poy.tsn.ca m.nzherald.co.nz blog.telmex.com business.un.org coinad.com status.formstack.com indulgy.com all-that-is-interesting.com pbh2.com edoqs.com grandascent.com locations.paychex.com pagelines.com danjur.com mrmoneymustache.com We've got some historical stats for them here but we only started tracking in January - https://trends.builtwith.com/hosting/Digital-Ocean https://trends.builtwith.com/hosting/Digital-Ocean Not sure if this is of any interest but this is where they are getting new customers from (from most to least) Linode Softlayer Rackspace Amazon GoDaddy
- glazskunrukitis 13y ago
  SSL provider getssl.me is also hosted on Digital Ocean.
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level09 13y ago
I don't know the largest, but definitely it can handle large systems. A recent website I deployed (afrigatenews.net) is getting around 400K hits / month I have also other 3 website ranging from 50k - 500k+ hits a month. I highly recommend the SSD power especially for mysql and redis performance. I just wish they will allow separate disk scaling and add a bit more CPU power.
- AznHisoka 13y ago
  I feel the SSD power is the least captivating feature of them. Just 20 GB of SSD power isn't enough for most production uses. Their main selling point is that they're cheap and you can spend just $5 for a decent server that does tasks like crawling, sending the data to another server that stores it.
- spb 13y ago
  > I highly recommend the SSD power especially for mysql and redis performance. If SSD is giving you added performance with redis, you're using redis wrong.
accident 13y ago
This is bryan. Networking team. You will never guess, we stick by our privacy policy policy. They are be 1000x bigger than you

program 13y ago

jsFiddle is the biggest according to myip.ms http://myip.ms/view/web_hosting/38903/Digital_Ocean_Inc.html http://myip.ms/view/web_hosting/38903/Digital_Ocean_Inc.html

mattwritescode 13y ago
Ah thats quite a cool website.
antr 13y ago
would this list include sites that use services like Cloudflare? Client IPs would differ, making it difficult to trace back to the ISP
- program 13y ago
  I don't think that such list could contain websites under reverse proxies.

aurumpotest 13y ago

What made you ask the question? I've never heard of Digital Ocean before, what's different about them?

mattwritescode 13y ago
Digital ocean are a hosting platform. They came into the spot light a year or two ago as offering cheap VPS hosting. They also give you the standard setup images, scaling, etc. I asked the question as i was on there website earlier and I had seen the counter with the number of nodes setup so far; and thought I wonder what the largest site is on there. They are also on the front of hacker news today as they have just completed a new funding round https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7353868 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7353868 Oh and forgot they also only offer SSD disks.
- nieve 13y ago
  Re SSD disks, as someone who's using both Digital Ocean and Ramnode: For PostgreSQL on smallish data sets (5GB) doing Sphinx reindexes every few minutes Digital Ocean's I/O performance is much lower than Ramnode's KVM SSD instances. Disk benchmarks on the two gave me 5-10x in Ramnode's favor on small instances. Digital Ocean is still pretty decent for a budget provider and Ramnode has all the standard issues of a smaller hoster (and all the advantages), but if I/O performance is critical to you it might be worth taking into account. DO is much slicker, though.
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rschmitty 13y ago
Stick around HN a while and you will hear about all the major VPS providers and learn about both the good and bad experiences people have had with ______ provider

h4d35 13y ago

http://www.beyonce.com http://www.beyonce.com http://getflywheel.com/ http://getflywheel.com/ are 2 big sites (in terms of traffice) which are hosted on DigitalOcean, afaik.

daGrevis 13y ago
Beyonce website is really cool!
vidyesh 13y ago
From the recent article related to DO's $37.2M funding [1] “Flywheel built an entire WordPress hosting service on top of our cloud,” Uretsky said. “They are running over a thousand droplets for their users. The integration is so tight that customers can’t tell that we’re running the service.” Another example, Beyoncé launched her new album in December. It turns out that Beyonce.com runs on DigitalOcean. The servers handled the album launch without breaking a sweat. “We’ve seen 15 million visitors within the first 24 hours. She’s been pretty happy with the service,” Uretsky said. [1]http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/06/digitalocean-raises-37-million-from-andreessen-horowitz/ http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/06/digitalocean-raises-37-mill...

garazy 13y ago

If you count sub-domains on Alexa top domains here's a few big companies in there like iStockPhoto and Debenhams - discover.istockphoto.com store.xda-developers.com support.sharebeast.com finance.debenhams.com poy.tsn.ca m.nzherald.co.nz blog.telmex.com business.un.org coinad.com status.formstack.com indulgy.com all-that-is-interesting.com pbh2.com edoqs.com grandascent.com locations.paychex.com pagelines.com danjur.com mrmoneymustache.com We've got some historical stats for them here but we only started tracking in January - https://trends.builtwith.com/hosting/Digital-Ocean https://trends.builtwith.com/hosting/Digital-Ocean Not sure if this is of any interest but this is where they are getting new customers from (from most to least) Linode Softlayer Rackspace Amazon GoDaddy

glazskunrukitis 13y ago
SSL provider getssl.me is also hosted on Digital Ocean.

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level09 13y ago

I don't know the largest, but definitely it can handle large systems. A recent website I deployed (afrigatenews.net) is getting around 400K hits / month I have also other 3 website ranging from 50k - 500k+ hits a month. I highly recommend the SSD power especially for mysql and redis performance. I just wish they will allow separate disk scaling and add a bit more CPU power.

AznHisoka 13y ago
I feel the SSD power is the least captivating feature of them. Just 20 GB of SSD power isn't enough for most production uses. Their main selling point is that they're cheap and you can spend just $5 for a decent server that does tasks like crawling, sending the data to another server that stores it.
spb 13y ago
> I highly recommend the SSD power especially for mysql and redis performance. If SSD is giving you added performance with redis, you're using redis wrong.

accident 13y ago

This is bryan. Networking team. You will never guess, we stick by our privacy policy policy. They are be 1000x bigger than you