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While the value here is nice, I maybe would not suggest investing too much of your time on learning proprietary temporarily free developer tools. There are grea

by wmt 12y ago

While the value here is nice, I maybe would not suggest investing too much of your time on learning proprietary temporarily free developer tools. There are great open source tools for many developer tasks that are not just good options, but can even be industry standards.

diyorgasms 12y ago
I agree that using free (libre) tools is preferable, but a lot of this facilitates that. For instance, you can deploy a GNU/Linux image using the DigitalOcean credit and gain experience deploying on a LAMP/LEMP stack and doing things like creating iptables rules and things like that, which is good real-world experience that is in no way temporary or platform dependent. Git itself (as I'm sure you know) is a free tool, and learning git is a worthwhile skill no matter where you are using it. Hell, I know people who use git for collaborative document management. And the SSL stuff and domains offered through namecheap are going to be helpful to anyone who wants to go into web development. Knowing how to set up a domain, with proper DNS records and SSL configurations, is a pretty basic task for people who do web stuff. And, again, these things are platform agnostic. I think there is a lot of value offered here, and not all of it serves the purpose of furthering vendor lock-in.
- xux 12y ago
  >using the DigitalOcean credit and gain experience deploying on a LAMP/LEMP stack You can one-click-deploy a LAMP stack from DigitalOcean lol.
- pbhjpbhj 12y ago
  Ha, E stand for nginx, how silly of me.
- bitJericho 12y ago
  You'd learn a lot more deploying a lamp stack with Virtualbox or dropping 100 bucks on a used server off ebay and deploying something on it. Honestly this offer is just like those gigantic coupon books you get in the mail that gives you discounts to all the local area restaurants (that paid up). It's great if you want a good deal if you want to go out, but it's not like anybody's doing you a favor.
UK-AL 12y ago
Pragmatically, if the value of time saved, usefulness is higher the price of the product I would still buy it.

by wmt 12y ago

diyorgasms 12y ago

I agree that using free (libre) tools is preferable, but a lot of this facilitates that. For instance, you can deploy a GNU/Linux image using the DigitalOcean credit and gain experience deploying on a LAMP/LEMP stack and doing things like creating iptables rules and things like that, which is good real-world experience that is in no way temporary or platform dependent. Git itself (as I'm sure you know) is a free tool, and learning git is a worthwhile skill no matter where you are using it. Hell, I know people who use git for collaborative document management. And the SSL stuff and domains offered through namecheap are going to be helpful to anyone who wants to go into web development. Knowing how to set up a domain, with proper DNS records and SSL configurations, is a pretty basic task for people who do web stuff. And, again, these things are platform agnostic. I think there is a lot of value offered here, and not all of it serves the purpose of furthering vendor lock-in.

xux 12y ago
>using the DigitalOcean credit and gain experience deploying on a LAMP/LEMP stack You can one-click-deploy a LAMP stack from DigitalOcean lol.
pbhjpbhj 12y ago
Ha, E stand for nginx, how silly of me.
bitJericho 12y ago
You'd learn a lot more deploying a lamp stack with Virtualbox or dropping 100 bucks on a used server off ebay and deploying something on it. Honestly this offer is just like those gigantic coupon books you get in the mail that gives you discounts to all the local area restaurants (that paid up). It's great if you want a good deal if you want to go out, but it's not like anybody's doing you a favor.

UK-AL 12y ago

Pragmatically, if the value of time saved, usefulness is higher the price of the product I would still buy it.