No, not an advertisement. Just curious. They seem relatively cheap one of my friends recommended them to me as a new alternative to Linode - which personally I love. I'm just a tad hesitant due to the fact they don't have an eth1 and only supply an eth0. So my bandwidth in theory could get used up purely from connections to the database if I ever decided or had a need to run a db server separately...
Anyone have any experience with them?
I've heard about them quite a bit on Hacker News and the general response is that there good for development but there support is not good enough for production use.
I've used them quite a bit - snapshot feature and newly introduced graphs are very nice.
Beware that they get DDOS'd quite a bit recently due to trials, although they have been pretty solid with me currently running 3-4 servers on and off with them.
Thanks for the feedback on that actually. Got three lightweight servers setup in the end $15 a month it seems. One server for Ruby testing / experimenting one server for DB to be shared out from the other two and one server for my website. Seems nice so far. Thanks for the heads up re DDOS!
I wouldn't use the production db server as the db server for the testing server. Just run the test db on the test server. Less potential for bad things to happen to production that way.
[QUOTE=KmartSqrl;41751930]I wouldn't use the production db server as the db server for the testing server. Just run the test db on the test server. Less potential for bad things to happen to production that way.[/QUOTE]
Valid point, I wouldn't do this in an important application environment. Just was trying out new things for my own interests, either way I've installed mongo now on my test server going to mess around with that as I haven't had a chance to mess around with it fully yet. Still a shame they haven't got eth1 support yet. Really would like that.
eth1 support is irrelevant. They don't monitor bandwidth usage at this point and they've said multiple times they will have a private network implemented when they start billing for usage.
They also just closed another seed round, so we will likely see some new stuff in the mix.
[url]http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/07/fast-growing-cloud-hosting-service-digital-ocean-raises-3-2m-seed-round-led-by-ia-ventures/[/url]
My servers were "deleted" many times.
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