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Digital Ocean Reviews Anyone?

lukenstinelukenstine Member
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I'm Thinking of switching to digital ocean. Anyone have any reviews about them?

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  • CasiusCasius Member

    I've been using for 6 months and it's been rock solid.

  • lukenstinelukenstine Member

    how are the ddos

  • myhkenmyhken Member

    Used them around a week, so far so good. But honestly I think you get a better deal at iwStack.com (they don't charge you when your instance is turned off, except HDD/IP).

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  • ChumbiChumbi Member
    edited January 2014

    Pretty good experience. Very fast auto-provisioning (usually less than 1 minute to create a new VPS and/or to destory it). Speed of the VPS and the network is quite good too (I mainly use their NYC2 location).

  • trexostrexos Member

    Can somebody post a dd result pls?:P

  • ChumbiChumbi Member
    edited January 2014

    From five minute ago:

    # wget freevps.us/downloads/bench.sh -O - -o /dev/null|bash CPU model : QEMU Virtual CPU version 1.0 Number of cores : 1 CPU frequency : 2299.998 MHz Total amount of ram : 497 MB Total amount of swap : 511 MB System uptime : 44 days, 16:35, Download speed from CacheFly: 62.1MB/s Download speed from Coloat, Atlanta GA: 63.2MB/s Download speed from Softlayer, Dallas, TX: 38.8MB/s Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 9.48MB/s Download speed from i3d.net, Rotterdam, NL: 13.3MB/s Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 14.5MB/s Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 7.98MB/s Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 25.1MB/s Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 24.5MB/s Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 13.8MB/s I/O speed : 451 MB/s

  • lukenstinelukenstine Member

    so you think i should switch to them?

  • lukenstinelukenstine Member

    my current provider too many ddos attacks. every other day my server is kind of down

  • ChumbiChumbi Member

    Well, there are other good providers out there. My main benefit @ Digital Ocean is the quick provisioning. I use it for development purposes.

    Another provider who has better "raw stats" both in terms of network and VPS hardware that is frequently highly recommended here is Ramnode.

    From five minutes ago:

    # wget freevps.us/downloads/bench.sh -O - -o /dev/null|bash CPU model : QEMU Virtual CPU version (cpu64-rhel6) Number of cores : 1 CPU frequency : 3300.028 MHz Total amount of ram : 245 MB Total amount of swap : 258 MB System uptime : 19 days, 19:28, Download speed from CacheFly: 76.6MB/s Download speed from Coloat, Atlanta GA: 103MB/s Download speed from Softlayer, Dallas, TX: 72.4MB/s Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 11.4MB/s Download speed from i3d.net, Rotterdam, NL: 2.25MB/s Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 19.9MB/s Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 8.45MB/s Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 33.8MB/s Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 37.6MB/s Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 79.6MB/s I/O speed : 767 MB/s

  • prometheanpromethean Member
    edited January 2014

    sure, this is from a 1024 "droplet":

    3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.41-2+deb7u2

    Load at the time dd was run:

    1.00 1.34 1.77 1/187 4425

    Mem: 1.0G 933M 69M 0B 9.6M 693M

    -/+ buffers/cache: 230M 772M

    dd results:

    root@localhost:/# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=1048576 count=2048

    2048+0 records in

    2048+0 records out

    2147483648 bytes (2.1 GB) copied, 6.85 s, 314 MB/s

    root@localhost:/# dd if=test of=/dev/null bs=1048576

    2048+0 records in

    2048+0 records out

    2147483648 bytes (2.1 GB) copied, 3.3744 s, 636 MB/s

    root@localhost:/#

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    I have no complaints about them, using in the US east. Only that it seems prometeus offers bit more choice & flexibility for a bit less $$ and similar reliability.

  • howardsl2howardsl2 Member
    edited January 2014

    I have been using them for 6 months and had good experience. I currently host my tech blog with them. I especially like the snapshot and auto backup features and they recently added the ability to rebuild a droplet from ANY snapshot even from another droplet, without having to destroy and create again.

    By the way, if anyone is interested in automatic IP updates on droplet deployment from DO snapshots, I wrote up an article on my tech blog at blog.ls20.com. There is also a tutorial on installing PBX in a Flash (PIAF) on DO.

  • ObnoxiousObnoxious Member
    edited January 2014 
    wget freevps.us/downloads/bench.sh -O - -o /dev/null|bash
CPU model :  QEMU Virtual CPU version 1.0
Number of cores : 1
CPU frequency :  1999.996 MHz
Total amount of ram : 497 MB
Total amount of swap : 511 MB
System uptime :   27 days, 18:16,
Download speed from CacheFly: 33.4MB/s
Download speed from Coloat, Atlanta GA: 23.9MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Dallas, TX: 25.3MB/s
Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 3.40MB/s
Download speed from i3d.net, Rotterdam, NL: 347KB/s
Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 16.2MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 7.69MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 15.1MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 22.9MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 13.3MB/s
I/O speed :  218 MB/s

    This is from a 512MB droplet in NYC2. My uptime as been great (I've only been with DO for 27 days, so hey). I have nothing bad to say about DO, other than I wish they had ipv6.

  • budi1413budi1413 Member

    What is your current provider?

  • NyrNyr Community Contributor, Veteran

    They use RAID5 for the storage. Only because of that, I would search elsewhere.

    They provide an ok service, but there are better alternatives out there and honestly I want to pay for hosting, not aggressive marketing to get more and more customers.

  • praveenpraveen Member

    I am with them since last 1 year on the Netherlands node.. till now I didn't face any down time and didn't face any situation to contact support.

  • lukenstinelukenstine Member

    @praveen said:
    I am with them since last 1 year on the Netherlands node.. till now I didn't face any down time and didn't face any situation to contact support.

    how many views does your site get a day?

  • praveenpraveen Member

    it is not that busy site.. it have a wordpress blog as well

  • lukenstinelukenstine Member

    20k views a day?

  • pauliakaspauliakas Member

    So far DigitalOcean the best VPS i had.

  • MaouniqueMaounique Host Rep, Veteran

    I also have one, AMS is doing great, was just some downtime for powerfailure and some network upgrade. Since I got it for almost free I cannot complain :)

  • javajjavaj Member

    I've had one with them for several months, their decent, no complaints

  • wychwych Member

    My boxes with them seems ok, can't get additional IP's though.

  • NavynNavyn Member

    Nice support nice server overall best .

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