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by zagi 10y ago
Yesterday, network access was taken down to sharethesafety.org which was hosted on our service by a customer, an intermediate platform provider. We want to let you know what happened. On June 23rd, we received notice from the NRA's cou
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by zagi 11y ago
Hey, full disclosure I’m the CEO and cofounder at DO. We built DigitalOcean specifically for developers at startups, SaaS and small-medium businesses concentrating on simplifying cloud infrastructure and delivering an experience that people
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by zagi 12y ago
Thanks for pointing this out, nearly 1 year ago we implemented a backup mechanism which stores a destroyed machine for 24 hours. This is only enabled for users with a valid paying account and we used this mechanism sometimes to return a dro
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by zagi 13y ago
Hi, Ben from DigitalOcean here - just to give you guys an update. This method will no longer work on a newly created droplet. We've now default scrub_data to ON for both web interface and API as we look at making this process permanent
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by zagi 13y ago
Hi, this is Ben, CEO and Co-Founder of DigitalOcean, we have received the document and will discuss the matter publicly. ----- All times are UTC. Our monitoring picked up a malicious UDP traffic pattern on 2013-09-08 00:58:23. A ticket was
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by zagi 13y ago
A signed letter allowing us to discuss your private account details that would violate our 'Privacy Policy' and reveal the factors that went into making the decision.
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by zagi 13y ago
All machines in NYC2 region are accessible via this private network.
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by zagi 13y ago
That is correct, it's not bound by tenant. Most other providers do not restrict private network either, I'm talking about the big ones like RackSpace, Amazon and others. What you're talking about is dedicated private VLAN&#x2
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by zagi 13y ago
A cloud is not defined by high availability. Just look at Amazon's cloud - so many single points of failure. Amazon says to distribute your application and redundancy across multiple redundancy zones. Cloud is defined as: 1. On demand
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by zagi 13y ago
The default is 5 servers to allow us to verify users. If you hit the limit you can request more servers, there is no actual limit if your account is verified and in good standing.
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by zagi 13y ago
Hi, I'm the CEO of DigitalOcean and we are not operating on a fantasy revenue model. All of our unit economics are positive and we are certainly here for the long haul with a sustainable business model. To answer your question directly
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by zagi 13y ago
We are using a Cisco based network and working closely with them to build a resilient network architecture. We've already encountered a number of bugs within Cisco's platform that have surfaced and are working closely with their T
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by zagi 13y ago
@6. It is perfectly fine to use multicast ElasticSearch clusters on DigitalOcean - just make sure to use an ACL to protect the environment in a public cloud environment.
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by zagi 13y ago
RAM is dedicated on DigitalOcean, CPU's are not - the virtual cores are shared to some extent on almost any cloud provider if you do the math.
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by zagi 14y ago
Even though our pricing is low we still generate profit on every unit that we sell, therefore we will be around for a long time. We have a ton of expertise in the server industry and we've already been around for 18 months. Here's looking f
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by zagi 14y ago
We do not oversubscribe memory and we do not provide SWAP space by default. Since its SSD based and memory is so cheap we recommend users size the machines according to their needs/requirements.
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by zagi 14y ago
This is one of the fundamental differences between a platform and an infrastructure provider. As a platform you build a single tool that is used by everyone and with it come inherent limitations. If an infrastructure provider can give you t
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by zagi 14y ago
DigitalOcean recently became fully integrated with Cloud66.com just last week. It's a great way to easily spin up a new server, and echo's our mantra of simple cloud hosting.
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by zagi 14y ago
>My personal question is: are DigitalOcean making a profit? Yes. If you do the math they actually do break even and manage to squeeze some profit.
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by zagi 14y ago
It is one of our most up-voted features and we will begin building out storage solutions this month now that our SSD/RAM upgrades are finished. We are still deciding whether to roll out first some sort of block/tiered NFS storage that can b
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by zagi 14y ago
We've seen a high failure rate on SSD compared to SAS & SATA drives. All of our servers are in a RAID environment, so a single failure does not take the system offline. Additionally our backups and snapshots provide another level of red
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by zagi 14y ago
Thanks! We definitely got a surge in traffic from the TechCrunch post and have been able to stabilize the frontend. Everything should be working normally at this time. We'll continue to add resources to make sure we can handle user requests