loldigitalocean

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   by loldigitalocean 7y ago

   I’ll reiterate the margins. Based on your account, my suspicion is only reinforced, actually: if you had big enough capacity problems to need a $3 million round to buy gear at the size you were in 2013, I’m mystified that your margins were
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   by loldigitalocean 7y ago

   Fine, ask lsc. I have tremendous respect for Luke given that he had, thanklessly and for years, tried to compete in this exact market singlehandedly . Even competing against him at Linode, that was remarkable to me. I have receipts for my
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   by loldigitalocean 7y ago

   Nope. I didn’t say anything like that at all. You just don’t best AWS by trying to replicate them, since they have enough capital to create four of you several times a year (and do, i.e., Lightsail).
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   by loldigitalocean 7y ago

   No. Compare Linode and DigitalOcean. Linode bootstrapped, took very few financial instruments to aid the journey, had a few missteps along the way, completely reinvented the entire business more than once, and still serves a niche that make