OwainX

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by OwainX 10y ago
We've rolled out an initial version of the "expire now" functionality. Click the [X] in the top right of any free server's box in the dashboard and you'll be taken to a confirmation page letting you expire the serv
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by OwainX 10y ago
The "How it works" page has been updated to remove this reference until we include the FreeBSD image.
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by OwainX 10y ago
Thanks!
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by OwainX 10y ago
Containers and container services are great but sometimes you need a full server and doing a PaaS with containers has it's own challenges to ensure isolation, have network setup work easily and other factors. I use containers for some
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by OwainX 10y ago
Haha.. ok that one is hilarious.. and it's been fixed (the typo that is)
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by OwainX 10y ago
SMTP ports are blocked and we recommend using a transactional mail service if your server needs to send mail. We're implementing a number of things to profile abusers and prevent abuse on the platform and will be strictly enforcing pol
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by OwainX 10y ago
It's not and until your comment I wasn't familiar with Diply. Doesn't look like we offer anything similar but if I heard from them with concerns we'd consider changing our logo font to prevent confusion.
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by OwainX 10y ago
We'll be enabling FreeBSD soon
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by OwainX 10y ago
Thanks. A lot of this feedback I've been hearing from others today. We'll be updating the serer name field to stand out visually better and doing updates to the home page and informational pages to both highlight the button capab
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by OwainX 10y ago
There are quite a lot of cases where you could find yourself facing a large bill unexpectedly. Forgetting about a server you spun up to try something out, with may platforms having your server hacked (or even DDoSed) could result in huge b
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by OwainX 10y ago
Yup. The way Dply works makes it a bad value prop for abusers. It's also not the best option for someone who would be better served going with DO directly or running a permanent service. Where we think Dply shines is with the button h
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by OwainX 10y ago
Right now you can have one free server at any time. There is no daily limit currently. We do not provide an API and automating server creation is a violation of our TOS and would be considered abuse. When you need a server and can log in a
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by OwainX 10y ago
We found an issue where the stacktrace was originally enabled in our code twice so when it was switched off it was being overridden. That's been fixed. Adding better form validation for the button creation form is also on our list. O
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by OwainX 10y ago
We've had several people suggest making this more prevalent and it's on our todo list :)
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by OwainX 10y ago
We'll be adding an "expire now" option for servers on the free plan this weekend :)
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by OwainX 10y ago
Actually, I work for DO :) But Dply is not a DO project or product. It's my personal side-project and while I have DO's blessing to run it, it's otherwise unrelated and acts like any other DO customer reselling or running an
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by OwainX 10y ago
DO absolutely allows (and encourages) resellers and SaaS platforms on their service. My day job is with DO and Dply was built as a side project to meet some needs I have heard from developers, students, and open source projects. Dply opera
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by OwainX 10y ago
One of the biggest pieces of feedback we've received and near the top of the list to fix. To start with, we'll be giving this field a white background so it's not so easy to miss.
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by OwainX 10y ago
DigitalOcean does it's billing based on a per-minute basis based on their hourly rates. We have already implemented a feature in our backend code to allow users to "expire" free servers and are working on adding that to the
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by OwainX 10y ago
For the initial release we focused on extreme simplicity in our design. It's easier to add things than remove them. We'll be making updates to the homepage and informational pages in the coming weeks to make information more pre
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by OwainX 10y ago
Scraping, when done responsibly (respecting robots.txt and not overloading a server with requests) wouldn't be considered abusive in most cases. While we will be strict in enforcing abuse policies, when it's obvious a user acted
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by OwainX 10y ago
We may create a community repository of user-data scripts allowing you to check a "Share this with the community" option on the Dply button creation page. For now, DigitalOcean has a nice Github repository of user-data scripts yo
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by OwainX 10y ago
Without going into too much detail we keep track of users, profiling things like ssh keys and github accounts, IP addresses and activity in order to make sure that abusers, once identified cannot come back. All payments are non-refundable
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by OwainX 10y ago
Absolutely. Keeping costs low is key to having this model work. Each paid server can cover the costs of a lot of free ones but abuse policy enforcement takes people and that's much more expensive. There are quite a few transactional
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by OwainX 10y ago
This is the only report of this that we've seen and checking our web server we weren't able to find any 403's being returned today. If you see this again, please open a ticket by clicking the question mark in the corner of a
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by OwainX 10y ago
There will be soon. We've already implemented an "expire now" function in the backend for servers on the free plan and are working on adding it to the UI. We're hopeful that this feature will be available this weekend.
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by OwainX 10y ago
Dply is built on the DigitalOcean cloud which doesn't allow custom OSes so we are somewhat limited in that regard. As others have written scripts to convert a DigitalOcean droplet to Arch and Alpine we are experimenting with making th
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by OwainX 10y ago
In general abuse is anything that is illegal under US law, causes a disruption of service or is otherwise disruptive to our ability to run the service. As far as our TOS goes, if we say it's abuse, it is. We will be very strict in ou
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by OwainX 10y ago
You're welcome. Thanks to Stripe there was no extra work required on our end to accept Credit card, bitcoin and alipay. We hope to keep all these options around. There are concerns about having a bitcoin option leading to more abuse
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by OwainX 10y ago
A great suggestion. We've received quite a few suggestions for improvement. As the MVP/First beta we aimed for absolute simplicity in the design and implementation as it's easier to add things than take them away. The home

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