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@jbiloh because it's a strategic market, and they need to show more and more growth so they can sell the company for more money after several years?
Decent connectivity, easy to import, lease rates are good, government is easy to deal with. DO has a lot of nz/au customers also that may want to go up instead.
Financed on drug dealings, apparently.
Sure, they are looking to build top line revenues but what I am suggesting is that they can accomplish the same thing with better margins in other markets.
@jbiloh yes, but the more markets for them, the better. And they are not really "global" unless they cover Asia too. I also expect them to open somewhere in South America next year.
Brazil is a real hot spot, but hard to work in. I think Singlehop ended up closing their operation down there recently, right?
Singlehop needs to be profitable to operate in a market. DO doesn't need profit, just number of customers.
Why do you see them much different? Singlehop and DO are both venture funded. The difference is Singlehop has revenues of 35MM where as DO is 1/10 of that or less.
What he is implying is that DO is just a pump'n'dump show, wherest Singlehop is (probably) not.
Amazing the world we live in, something that makes no money can be worth so much.
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You need to have something to give away to make one of those threads. I do not
Their expansion doesn't say anything about profit at all, remember their received venture capital?
Oh right, didn't read "we". Whether it's profitable or not, it's going on big sale sooner or later...
They (i.e. Ben / @zagi) still do own another hosting business: ServerStack: managed dedicated servers...MTV is reportedly one of their clients, and ServerStack targets the enterprise market (or as their website says "we're the provider for companies spending over $10K per month)
Uptime of their website is pretty good too according to Netcraft...
http://uptime.netcraft.com/perf/graph?collector=11,14,21,23,25,28,29,30,31,32,33&sd=1377993601&range=2591999&sample=8&site=www.serverstack.com
Wow,nice!
Looking forward to reading it. Always good to see success. Keep it up.
A couple of DO quotes from VentureBeat:
and
http://bgp.he.net/AS133165#_asinfo
I am pretty sure that is faster than rackspace
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6350 servers? Wow,that's a big investment
Does Digital Ocean have their own IPs?
In the US, yes I think. In NL, no.
Seems they have 4 ASN, and about 100K directly assigned IPs.
AS62567 Digital Ocean, Inc.
AS200130 Digital Ocean, Inc.
AS14061 Digital Ocean, Inc.
AS133165 Digital Ocean, Inc.
Yes. Depending on RIR, they were probably transferred but they are all our own IPs.
When you are starting IPv4 reselling business :-)
Pretty excited by this - can understand @jbiloh's concern from a business aspect, but certainly isn't something consumers can complain about
Well, the service seems to be so good, that many people got concerned "How is this possible ?"
I'm sure DO has studied the market and all factors involved and are confident in their decision to expand to such an expensive market.
good for asian customers. Looking forward to it.