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Does anyone know how accurate the below is and are they talking VMs or physical machines here? "As of April 2015, DigitalOcean was the third largest hosting co

by erentz 12y ago

Does anyone know how accurate the below is and are they talking VMs or physical machines here? "As of April 2015, DigitalOcean was the third largest hosting company in the world backed by 154,000 Web-facing computers..."

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arthurcolle 12y ago
It is inconceivable to me that those are physical machines but with the new investment I could be wrong. http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/06/digitalocean-raises-37-million-from-andreessen-horowitz/ http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/06/digitalocean-raises-37-mill... Edit: I missed the most recent round of investment. Looks like they've raised roughly $90M in 2014. Impressive indeed http://www.forbes.com/sites/benkepes/2014/12/09/digitalocean-raises-50m-but-even-that-cant-explain-the-growth/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/benkepes/2014/12/09/digitalocean...
- growthape 12y ago
  DigitalOcean is indeed one of the most promising cloud companies ever. In a very less time they have built a great reputation among developers. People are building companies on their infrastructure. One example is Cloudways.
- erentz 12y ago
  It's inconceivable to me too. Must be VMs which would make their physical footprint pretty small.
mattpavelle 12y ago
Just thinking/typing out loud here: The've raised ~$92M (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/digitalocean https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/digitalocean) so 92,000,000/154,000 ~= $600/"machine" if it's a physical machine and they spent almost their fundraising on hardware. Seems like spending almost all of your fundraising on hardware could happen for a cloud computing company. So could be 154,000 physical machines?
- blackoil 12y ago
  Must be VMs, not physical machine
  - simonebrunozzi 12y ago
    It is VMs, not physical machines.
ridruejo 12y ago
They are referring to Netcraft survey http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2015/04/20/april-2015-web-server-survey.html http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2015/04/20/april-2015-web-...

by erentz 12y ago

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arthurcolle 12y ago

It is inconceivable to me that those are physical machines but with the new investment I could be wrong. http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/06/digitalocean-raises-37-million-from-andreessen-horowitz/ http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/06/digitalocean-raises-37-mill... Edit: I missed the most recent round of investment. Looks like they've raised roughly $90M in 2014. Impressive indeed http://www.forbes.com/sites/benkepes/2014/12/09/digitalocean-raises-50m-but-even-that-cant-explain-the-growth/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/benkepes/2014/12/09/digitalocean...

growthape 12y ago
DigitalOcean is indeed one of the most promising cloud companies ever. In a very less time they have built a great reputation among developers. People are building companies on their infrastructure. One example is Cloudways.
erentz 12y ago
It's inconceivable to me too. Must be VMs which would make their physical footprint pretty small.

mattpavelle 12y ago

Just thinking/typing out loud here: The've raised ~$92M (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/digitalocean https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/digitalocean) so 92,000,000/154,000 ~= $600/"machine" if it's a physical machine and they spent almost their fundraising on hardware. Seems like spending almost all of your fundraising on hardware could happen for a cloud computing company. So could be 154,000 physical machines?

blackoil 12y ago
Must be VMs, not physical machine
- simonebrunozzi 12y ago
  It is VMs, not physical machines.

ridruejo 12y ago

They are referring to Netcraft survey http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2015/04/20/april-2015-web-server-survey.html http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2015/04/20/april-2015-web-...