Why Digital Ocean Rocks

mattseh said:
The value isn't in the largest plans, I have dedis for stuff that needs that, but a lot of apps work great on a $10 or $20 / mo machine.
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This. I host my organic/side project/apps with DigitalOcean and it's perfect/cheap/easy set up.
 


OK... given that I'll likely be snowed in for a few days I'll play with Digital Ocean. My last experiences with unmanaged Linux was years ago, so hopefully it's gotten better since.

Who has a referral code?
 
liams said:
OK... given that I'll likely be snowed in for a few days I'll play with Digital Ocean. My last experiences with unmanaged Linux was years ago, so hopefully it's gotten better since.

Who has a referral code?
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DO is well documented; you will find step by step instructions for damn near anything you are doing.
 
Impressive for fast economical testing.

Changing the subject slightly what is everyone's choice for hosting when it comes to long term running scripts? Day in day out ideally never stopping. Of the following;
-CPU
-Memory
-Disk space
-Bandwidth
-Port Speed
-Uptime
-Customer service

I usually red line CPU first. Not to distant would be RAM. I have several Linodes for some time now and overall no issues. Always looking for a better value. What do you use for long term scripts?

This is for a different use than the op. D.O. on the left, Linode on the right.


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I spent a day destroying and deploying droplets over and over again, but at least I figured out how to create really big Mongo databases.

I think DigitalOcean will be my homeboy as soon as I figure out how to use the MEAN setup. It's not documented as well online, but everything that's said about it makes it sounds great.

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mattseh said:
^ you can just do grep -c, no need for wc -l.
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Pro tip, thanks.

mattseh said:
The value isn't in the largest plans, I have dedis for stuff that needs that, but a lot of apps work great on a $10 or $20 / mo machine.
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Those $10-20 machines are all just ~12-100 VM's shoved onto a Xen dedi. Sure the DO interface is nice, but spinning up a new instance on your own Xen host can be scripted down to one command process; plus you can shut them down or leave them running as you please without much loss of any resources; plus resources can instantly be scaled as large as I like without having to change host machine.

I know I'm not going to convince you otherwise, but having my own VPS server for your kind of usage only costs me around $80/mo to have sitting there, with the cost decreasing over time.

Administration work on the host server is also virtually non existent, because Xen is just that stable. This particular one hasn't been restarted or messed with since it was brought online over a year ago.

[root@vpsa ~]# uptime
15:53:54 up 478 days, 6:31, 4 users, load average: 0.27, 0.16, 0.20
 
HP's cloud looks suh-weeet.

HP Cloud Pricing | HP Public Cloud

$3.24/hr for:

103 HP Cloud Compute Units, 16 virtual cores, 120GB RAM, 1800GB disk

An HP Cloud Compute Unit (CCU) is a unit of CPU capacity that describes the amount of compute power that a virtual core has available to it. 6.5 CCUs are roughly equivalent to the minimum power of one logical core (a hardware hyper-thread) of an Intel(R) 2012 Xeon(R) 2.60 GHz CPU PassMark - Intel Xeon E5-2670 @ 2.60GHz - Price performance comparison
 
If you want to "help the internet", run a non-exit tor node on something like Digital Ocean for a couple of bucks per month. Non-exit means no tor traffic hits the public internet unencrypted from your machine, but it helps robustness and speed of the network.
 
Natasha Nixon said:
Not the biggest fan of Digital Ocean, I've encountered issues with them but I wont hijack your thread by gushing about a preferred competitor :)
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That's pretty much a useless comment. What kind of issues did you have? Was it issues with the actual service, and support? Or user awareness issues? Talking about real problems, and limitations is what a thread like this is for.
 
dmnEPC said:
That's pretty much a useless comment. What kind of issues did you have? Was it issues with the actual service, and support? Or user awareness issues? Talking about real problems, and limitations is what a thread like this is for.
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Exactly, if there's someone better, I want to know.
 
Is this site mainly for testing scripts or can it be used for running day to day sites?

For instance, how would something from Digital Ocean compare to Storm On Demand's lowest end plans?
 
Fiver said:
Is this site mainly for testing scripts or can it be used for running day to day sites?

For instance, how would something from Digital Ocean compare to Storm On Demand's lowest end plans?
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I run live sites with them and have saved a fortune over normal VPS's. I've no idea of Liquidweb's pricing, but I'd be very surprised if they're comparable to be honest.
 
Fiver said:
Is this site mainly for testing scripts or can it be used for running day to day sites?

For instance, how would something from Digital Ocean compare to Storm On Demand's lowest end plans?
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DO is known for its $5/mo, 512mb RAM, 20GB SSD package. You can do whatever you want with it, but it's particularly nice for quick setup/teardown because of its pay-as-you-go pricing and friendly API.

Storm On Demand has a weaker offering. $35/mo, 1gb RAM, 15GB SSD, and that corporate-power-point feel shared with every other webhost's website.

When it comes to VPS, I roll with DO or Linode.
 
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