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DigitalOcean: The New Academic Pioneer
You might know DigitalOcean as a hosting company. If you do, you’re a boomer.
They’re now a research institute, and their research should make any university afraid. They’re simply so good.
Here’s, in their own words, their key-findings of their latest ”research report” (yes, they call it this, and yes, the below is quoted word by word”):
- Economic downturn affects small businesses but optimism persists
- Widespread adoptation of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)
- Remote and hybrid work structures dominate the tech landscape
- Multi-cloud strategies are rising in tandem with cybersecurity investments
The above was quoted word for word, I hope that their next research report will be as insightful. There are rumours that they after careful resesrch, in their next research report, will be able to come to the key-findings that:
- Grass is green
- The sky is blue
- Sometimes good stuff occurs
- But sometimes shit happens too
Please download the report for more in-depth information about the tech landscape, they will need your email though 😈
What did you learn today?
- Yes, what?42 votes
- I had no idea people in tech sometimes work remote38.10%
- I had no idea we were inside a recession35.71%
- I had no idea AI and/or ML usage is increasing26.19%
Comments
just yesterday I read news that Bill Gates said: In next 5 years everyone of us will be having their own Pesonal AI assistant!
Do people still use DigitalOcean?
You’ll have to wait for their december research report where they’ll figure this out.
Option 4: I had no idea I'm a boomer.
We have too much VM with DO with a monthly expense of over 1k, too lazy to move out.
They have good articles and blogs.
And research.
But I find their tutorials very precise and practical.
yes i am use digitalocean 10 years (singapore is good)
I mean they have been doing this for quite some time and it’s based on responses to their survey that all customers are asked to participate in. The report is far more detailed you are just choosing to be a dick by quoting a small part out of context. Did they cancel your free credits or something?
If you don’t use them and don’t find their ‘research’ useful, why you bothering? Move on.
DO is where I deploy my first ever VPS server.
They got a big name in my mind. But I do not have any service with them now.
I’m glad you’re now aware people in tech sometimes work remote but not always.
Next DigitalOcean research piece: So much money does the average company save by moving to Hetzner
Pet peeve: "methodology". 99.9% of the time people use this word, they should use "method".
Methodology is the study of methods, not the method you used.
People who use "methodology" need to get off my lawn.
Tsk, you're just raindog, your statements, no matter how obviously correct, carry no weight. Do you have DO research to back up what you say? Because, you know, their research does carry weight. That's the right methodology to do researchology!
This is the next "Source?"
They seem pretty big these days.
this
I'm sorry
Mm. Earlier i always used their 100 Credit to test things. Now not using it anymore.
Looking at the pricing, it is not for LET or LES users for sure. But for heavy or critical applications, SMB - Enterprise companies still use them, it's just because of their stability, scalability and reliability.
It's pricing almost the same with other cloud companies like Vultr, Linode and UpCloud.
Wew. I have what i called "Benchmark Methodology" in my website
thank you for your feedback.
Their free credits have helped lots of students with their projects. Their tutorials are also nice. They seem to be in a tricky position though, they are neither as acceptable/known as the top three nor they are cheap/ low-end. They are kind of in-between. Wish them all the best, competition is good for the world.
My whole company is on DO, around 50 servers. It can get quite expensive when you go for more powerful servers, but I think it is a good reliability/cost balance.
In 2018, we had our own data centre space and it was sods law that everytime I went for a meal or out to enjoy hobbies, something would break. Our hosting costs may have roughly doubled moving to DO, but as cringy as it sounds, I now sleep well at night and I rarely take my laptop out with me when going out for the day.
The most common issue that we have with DO when having many servers is that from time to time we get notified that the host node has failed, taking down a single VM. A host node failure typically incurs anywhere from 10-30 minutes of downtime while they move the VM and anything else that was on that machine, but entirely handled by DO. We run PRTG externally and they know before we know... It has happened about 10 times in 5 years, I typically log in when its back and run an fsck and a mysqlcheck.
IMO the only features that DO is missing is the ability to run serverless apps/databases and high availability across multiple regions (but I have CloudFlare to fix that).
@mrl22 I don't think the majority of people that left DO went to acquire data center space instead, I think they moved to other cloud providers, like Hetzner