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11-24-2014, 03:25 PM #1Web Hosting Evangelist
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Anybody with DigitalOcean ?
Hi,
I would like to try their cloud and create about 3 droplets. Few questions:
1. How about their network uptime ? Are they stable ?
2. Network speed
3. Support speed (not very important , but one never knows )
thank you.
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11-24-2014, 04:42 PM #2Junior Guru Wannabe
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1. Excellent uptime in the year or so I have used them, mostly using NY2 and Singapore locations.
2. For network speed use http://speedtest-nyc3.digitalocean.com/. That is for ny3 but has links to other locations.
3. I have only contacted support once or twice and they have answered quickly.
The big limitations of DO are only 1 IPv4 per droplet and less CPU power compared to competition like Linode and Vultr. I think they eventually are adding support for multiple IPv4, but it does not sound like it will happen in the near future. CPU seems to occasionally get maxed out by those you are sharing CPU with, but usually only a very brief disruption. Never really have any problem with 2+ cpu instances.
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11-24-2014, 05:31 PM #3Web Hosting Master
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This should really be in the VPS section, their services are nothing more than KVM VPS. They are reliable from what I've seen, I use them occasionally to run test services and guides since they have hourly billing. I've never used their support however, so can't comment.
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11-24-2014, 06:27 PM #4Eternal Member
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All depends on your definition of a cloud service. Some define a cloud service as something on-demand/hourly billing and instant deployment/provisioning of VMs, some people say a cloud service must have redundancy thus necessitating some form of data replication or centralized storage (e.g. SAN) with built-in redundancy or replication.
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11-24-2014, 08:04 PM #5Hello World
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The term "cloud" is slowly being taken with a pinch of salt. Anyone can buy an OVH server install SolusVM and have a custom hourly billing module made for WHMCS heck even some exist already then hey-presto your the latest cloud provider on the block even while no redundancy is inplace the server simply uses a single SATA disk... Still a cloud though isn't it
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11-24-2014, 10:05 PM #6Web Hosting Master
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11-24-2014, 10:38 PM #7Web Hosting Evangelist
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11-24-2014, 11:20 PM #8Owner of the net for a day
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I am having an average of 1.5 outages of 10-20 min per week due to the node locking up and they refuse to move it to another. Going to have to move out of DO at this point.
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11-25-2014, 08:58 AM #9Web Hosting Master
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You must be on a bad node. Over the last 6 months I haven't noticed a single instance of downtime (other than reboots for kernel updates) across 4 "droplets". I do agree with @Mike_A, DO is a KVM VPS provider the same as RamNode and others. As long as you are aware of that going in, it isn't a problem.
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11-25-2014, 11:15 AM #10Owner of the net for a day
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I agree,they are obviously monitoring it more now because when it first started happening services would be down 1-2 hours until I opened a ticket, now generally within 10 minutes it has rebooted and services start coming back up. However, they haven't even attempted to fix underlying issue.
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11-25-2014, 11:21 AM #11Web Hosting Evangelist
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11-25-2014, 11:31 AM #12Owner of the net for a day
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11-25-2014, 12:15 PM #14Cloud Ninja
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I used for 1 month. Network speed is average that i found on my droplet but others things are pretty good.
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12-03-2014, 10:15 PM #15Newbie
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I've been with them for a little over two years. Thumbs up from here.
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12-03-2014, 10:23 PM #16Disabled
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I have almost 100 droplets, on average I see 2-3 droplets rebooted due to node failure every month. Never the same one, acceptable in the case of a large & redundant cluster.
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12-04-2014, 01:57 AM #17WHT Addict
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I had problems before on cPanel DNS-only-version, once a week suddenly the DO droplet didn't allow access with root password or access hash until it was rebooted and root password changed from DO panel.
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12-04-2014, 07:25 AM #18Greece
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I have 5 small droplets from them. All of them on Amsterdam datacenters. No issues so far.
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12-04-2014, 11:19 AM #19Newbie
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I have a few droplets with them, 100% uptime after about one year
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12-09-2014, 09:45 PM #20Newbie
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Yes, I own 10 servers from digitalocean. I use 2 for minecraft servers and the rest for developing projects. Support is awesome the the FAQ is community & staff built. Also billing is not a hassle and they're more than fair to their customers who have to pay late. Example, I forgot to pay for the 10 for 2 months, honest mistake.. so I paid the bill and I figured the servers had gone offline but they were still up and running. I believe after 3 months they turn your server off for non-payment and you cannot create any new droplets.
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12-15-2014, 01:23 PM #21Junior Guru Wannabe
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I'm only in my first month with them - but so far have no complaints. I've got a cPanel install on one of the droplets and the other is just a DEV server.
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12-20-2014, 04:15 PM #22Web Hosting Master
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Many of us do not consider Digital Ocean as true "Cloud". No redundancy, no high-availability. It's not cloud, it's just VPS by another name.
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12-20-2014, 06:53 PM #23Hello World
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12-20-2014, 10:16 PM #24Web Hosting Master
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There is no absolute definition of cloud hosting, so it can be many things. To the average user it works and does what it says it does and that's all that really matters.
To those technically minded or that way inclined High Availability may be important to you but it's not for most DO users. So whatever way you want to package it up the size of their customer base seems to suggest people like their "Cloud"
With;
5 Geographical Locations
Only SF does not have IPV6
9 different DC's
Backups
Snapshots
Private Networking
More than most offer and I am sure from those items above you can put together more than just a couple of VPS if you really wanted for not a lot of money.
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12-21-2014, 08:55 AM #25Web Hosting Master
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Again, STILL not cloud.
If the node you are on has a hardware problem, you are down until they fix it. That could be hours, or more, and clients looking for extremely high uptime will not tolerate that possibility.
Redundancy and High-Availability require substantially more expensive network and hardware designs.
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