Ok, this is nonsense!<p>DigitalOcean did not "open" a data center in Singapore. All they have done is rented some racks / colo space from Equinix in an existing facility.<p><a href="http://www.equinix.com/locations/singapore-colocation/singapore-data-center" rel="nofollow">http://www.equinix.com/locations/singapore-colocation/singap...</a><p>They're just another customer - to spin and imply they have built or opened a brand new data center is ridiculous.<p><i>"Our decision to open a new datacenter"</i> is really "We've located servers in Singapore". What's wrong with telling the truth?<p>Just more evidence that DigitalOcean is all PR and hot air after their pot-shots at Linode and brushing off security issues as "features".
Happy to hear about the new opening, DO. Happy customer here - thanks for providing what has proven to be solid service and support for me (far better than my previous 'budget provider').<p>I am seeing a lot of complaints about DO that has nothing to do with this announcement... Traceroutes and ping times from the region - legit. Debate on the claim of 'opening a data center' (vs renting rack space) - legit (at least on topic). Complaining about lack of DO features - off topic and noise...<p>Let's be honest about what DigitalOcean is (and they may not like my categorization - I don't know, I'm just a customer) - they are a low price / budget hosting provider... I am not saying that people's complaints about lack of features or problems aren't legitimate complaints, but that they don't particularly belong here or add value to this discussion. DO has been on here a lot - whining about wants and complaints on every post is lame...<p>You want to voice your complaints? Write a post about why DO doesn't live up to your dream of all that a $5/mo VPS solution should live up to on your little blog and see if it makes it to the front page - then you can rightfully whine about lack of IPv6 all you want and know that you're not just thread dumping on a young small company's enthusiastic announcement about expanding their services. Or... Here's a thought for all of you super awesome critics who clearly know what's up way more than DO does - go make something superior and sell it for $4.50/mo!!!
Something seems off with the routing. I'm on one of the big 3 internet providers in Singapore, and I'm getting a 300-400ms latency to their ping server (speedtest-sgp1.digitalocean.com) and to a droplet which I just started.<p><pre><code> DO <-> SL ~2ms
DO <-> AWS ~2ms
Me <-> SL ~15ms
Me <-> AWS ~15ms
Me <-> DO 350ms</code></pre>
I'm worried about DigitalOcean. I think their priority should be to try to approach feature parity with Amazon or Rackspace. As of now, there are many features that are missing, such as private networking (only available in NYC2), CDN, elastic IP, load balancing, etc.<p>How about the ability to support attaching metadata to any instance?[0] How difficult is this to implement? More importantly, how would a devops person manage many instances without this feature? Isn't ex-EC2/Rackspace/<others> the target market for DigitalOcean?<p>---
[0]: <a href="http://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digitalocean/suggestions/3682231-add-tags-to-instances" rel="nofollow">http://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digitalocean...</a>
How does DigitalOcean compare to RamNode? I've been using a small VPS at RamNode and it's been great. It offers pretty much the same features (SSD, 1 CPU, 1 Gbps connection) as DigitalOcean (plus RamNode offers 16 IPv6 addresses), yet it's half the price. The only downside to RamNode is the 500 GB of bandwidth compared to 1 TB at DigitalOcean. Maybe I'm missing something, but why would one use DigitalOcean over RamNode for VPS hosting?
I started a SG droplet about 5 hours ago. It's still down. They're suffering some outage and it's a shame it isn't mentioned on their status page. #fail<p><a href="https://twitter.com/kaihendry/status/433451127657357312" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/kaihendry/status/433451127657357312</a><p>I'll stick with GPLhost for now <a href="http://webconverger.org/servers/" rel="nofollow">http://webconverger.org/servers/</a>
They need to keep on top of existing demand as well and start running over-capacity. Not joking but it's pretty long wait to get an instance up in a preferred DC sometimes which is putting a lot of us off the platform.
It used to be that it was possible to take a snapshot of a DO droplet without shutting down the droplet, provided the droplet had 1GB of ram or higher.<p>Does anyone know if this is still the case?