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Agree. Also wait for when they will start charging for bandwidth and snapshots. They have in program to do it.
Can someone explain what a "web-facing computer" actually means?
A computah with a web servah on it that is accessible from the internet.
Most likely, port 80 is opened and/or websites' A record is pointing to a DO IP.
Which "default image" (across 20 or whatever OSes and their versions and variants)? The Debian one doesn't.
This is a metric used by netcraft to measure the number of servers that are responding directly to requests for web content. They may be web servers, reverse proxies or load balancers:
http://www.netcraft.com/internet-data-mining/hosting-provider-server-count/
Remembered an old folk story about a police men
I'm trying to decide which English accent would pronounce "server" as "servah" :-)
South African?
I put $5 in ages ago and got $25 so I have $30 but I haven't used it yet. I wish they would allow custom ISOs, and allow you to create a bigger droplet than you have credit for (i.e. I can only create droplets up to $20/mo even though I could pay for a bigger one hourly).
Vultr is way better IMO.
@hostnoob, custom iso and custom droplets size.. just a dream ;(
lol,just a question when will DO be good enough ? for you guys ........
When it pays them to use it
This is LET. The crowd will blame them for not paying enough then! ;-)
Lol that is true about LET.
Yeah, that is strange indeed. Does DO advertise hourly pricing?
I like Vultr better as well, though I really prefer iwStack; it's simply miles ahead of both DO and Vultr.
Perhaps if a credit card was linked to the account you could create larger droplets? Maybe a question to ask their support.
That would make sense.
I very much doubt they check all domains to see which points to DO IPs.
That being said, they are probably very popular with "SEO specialists" due to seemingly random "classes C".
Hum, that is exactly what i installed and i remember having to remove apache2. But it was a year and a half ago, i might confuse things or they removed it in the meantime.
runabove, for now something like DO
many "something like DO", but I guess you only have an affiliate link for run above
we are talking here about DO and OVH? or about me?
Are the numbers posted supposed to be physical servers or containers with web servers running on them?
http://www.netcraft.com/internet-data-mining/hosting-provider-server-count/
Looks like that paid review?
too many link back to digitalocean.
They are counting http daemons... DigitalOcean has at least 10 times less physical servers than OVH (but probably 3-4 times more VMs).
Figured as much.
Growth comes easy when everything is free. Let's see what happens when the bulk of the customers have to start paying...
@jbiloh you seem to know what their promotion expense is or are you just making unsubstantiated statements to go along with all the kids who use coupons. Many people pay for their service support and clean ips and uncongested bandwidth.
Just my 2 cents