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What made you ask the question? I've never heard of Digital Ocean before, what's different about them?
by aurumpotest 13y ago
What made you ask the question? I've never heard of Digital Ocean before, what's different about them?
- mattwritescode 13y agoDigital ocean are a hosting platform. They came into the spot light a year or two ago as offering cheap VPS hosting. They also give you the standard setup images, scaling, etc. I asked the question as i was on there website earlier and I had seen the counter with the number of nodes setup so far; and thought I wonder what the largest site is on there. They are also on the front of hacker news today as they have just completed a new funding round https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7353868 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7353868 Oh and forgot they also only offer SSD disks.
- nieve 13y agoRe SSD disks, as someone who's using both Digital Ocean and Ramnode: For PostgreSQL on smallish data sets (5GB) doing Sphinx reindexes every few minutes Digital Ocean's I/O performance is much lower than Ramnode's KVM SSD instances. Disk benchmarks on the two gave me 5-10x in Ramnode's favor on small instances. Digital Ocean is still pretty decent for a budget provider and Ramnode has all the standard issues of a smaller hoster (and all the advantages), but if I/O performance is critical to you it might be worth taking into account. DO is much slicker, though.
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- rschmitty 13y agoStick around HN a while and you will hear about all the major VPS providers and learn about both the good and bad experiences people have had with ______ provider