I wrote an article 6 months ago: https://raymii.org/s/articles/Digital_Ocean_Sucks._Use_Digital_Ocean.html<p>Nothing about the points has changed. No IPv6, no custom kernels, no own OS installs.<p>Please tell me why you still use Digital Ocean? Me? Just the price. However, I have several VPS's at other providers just to run *BSD or to have IPv6...
Most of my projects don't need IPv6, custom kernels or custom OS installs. They need nice and cheap Debian boxes that I can spin up and shut down as and when I need them.<p>That being said I also use EC2 a lot to do things that DO can't, so best tool for the job and all that.
"Right, need a new server to demo the webapp on."<p><i>Click</i> <i>Click</i>.<p>"And it's up and running."<p>That's the main reason :)
$5/month is great for little weekend projects or simple static sites. It's also fun to see how much traffic you can handle on constrained resources.<p>But for for anything serious I'm using Linode or Rimuhosting.
Quite honestly, as a UNIX noob, the step by step tutorials were priceless.<p>I know that Linode have these tutorials now too, but I actually have no idea how to easily move my installation from one server to the other!<p>Any tips?
FreeBSD hosting is an issue for me, neither D.O. or Linode offer it officially (although supposedly it's possible with Linode).<p>According to Etel Sverdlov Digital Ocean is working to add * BSD, but that was from Oct 2012:<p><a href="https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/is-it-possible-to-install-a-bsd-os" rel="nofollow">https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/is-it-possi...</a><p>You can vote for * BSD on Digital Ocean's user voice here:<p><a href="http://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digitalocean/suggestions/3232571-support-bsd-os" rel="nofollow">http://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digitalocean...</a><p>EDIT: Looks like Vultr offers FreeBSD for $5/month:<p><a href="https://www.vultr.com/faq/" rel="nofollow">https://www.vultr.com/faq/</a>
I don't think it sucks, for what it offers at that price. I use a DO boxes to host some basic php websites, and as the app server for my node app.
The price is great. I love heroku for the easy setup of web facing servers but i'm in the process of moving my workers to DigitalOcean, way more value for money.<p>Not being able to install a custom OS is a minor annoyance, hopefully they will add CoreOS soon. (Currently i'm quite happy with Ubuntu though).
>No IPv6, no custom kernels, no own OS installs.<p>Don't need it. I used to build my own kernels and blah blah blah years ago, but where I'm at now in life, it doesn't come up.
We don't still use it - gone to Linode. At 4x the base price it's still a better deal especially now they have SSDs.<p>I'd use bigv.io for BSD