I tried DO for a side project last year. The Good: - easy setup via the Web UI - instances provision fast - They had a 960GB instance type for only $960/mo Th

I tried DO for a side project last year. The Good: - easy setup via the Web UI - instances provision fast - They had a 960GB instance type for only $960/mo The Bad: - Support was lackluster, kind of like "stuff happens, so your servers may or may not keep working" - DDOS mitigation was overly aggressive. A DDOS likely targeted at the prior owner of the IP caused DO to take the box offline for two days with no warning or even a note saying it had been done. It took ~30 hours for them to even figure out that they had done this. - No SAN storage, so no practical way to store data in excess of what the largest instance type will hold. This limits the utility of the largest instance type. - The killer: they have no capacity of 96GB droplets, so if our box died, we would be unable to restore from the DO snapshot. This ultimately caused us to migrate off of DO (to AWS). So I still run a couple of nonessential projects there (total spend < $20/mo), but I wouldn't trust my paycheck to services run at DO just yet.