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@Nick_A
1) They offer a no card free trial
2) They willingly gave out a shit ton of free credit
3) They're considerably larger than any LEB provider here - which makes it less of a risk
That's it, nothing else to it. You can't blame anyone for trying them out either, I can definitely say that the performance is decent for the price.
Looks like DO is hiring http://digitalocean.theresumator.com/
I've used DigitalOcean, and their I/O and network speed was astronomically weak.
If they're trying to reach Linode customers, that's fine. If they're trying to reach Amazon EC2 customers, this wins.
I've used Linode before, and their networking and reliability is infinitely better than DO's. It has its limits, but it's a lot better IMHO.
Being a RamNode customer makes both look weak.
On to the VPS offered by DO (signed up with the ServerBear coupon and verified with PayPal):
I/O speed was ~140MB/s. I've about the same, but a bit less with ChicagoVPS. My worst RamNode speed was ~230MB/s, so that department should get improved if it's really SSD.
I've noticed a lot of SSH lag being my short time with them. I've had a lot better with Linode.
Also, the way to open support tickets from them to you is strange. I didn't remember opening a ticket when they did, and I thought my account was hacked...
tl;dr: digitalocean is even more horrible than linode, stay away
But it's hard to say no when they keep giving you free credits!!
Linode also costs 4x more, quit comparing apples with oranges.
Not very impressed with performance.
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 30.2159 s, 35.5 MB/s
That 35.5 MB/s should be more than enough for most things.
But... come on?! What kind of SSD gets 35.5 MB/s under any type of load?
Oh yeah forgot. They market it as SSDs.
Yeah that's crap haha
Open a ticket. That is not right.
I get 250-400 for all my droplets with 3000+ iops. Which is way more than enough and awesome for $5.
do you get that with your US droplet?
But... come on?! What kind of SSD gets 35.5 MB/s under any type of load?
...Any type of SSD under load?
But but but SSDs are magic, and you should get 1600+ MB/sec just by them being SSDs!
I would simply not bother, make a snapshot, then destroy your droplet and make a new one. (Or better, make a new one, then destroy the old one).
A lot of people are switching from apples to oranges (or which one was Linode in your analogy? anyways, from Linode to DO), so nothing wrong with comparing their nutritional value.
All my nodes with DO get ~200MB/s. (US region)
The thing I am not satisfied with DO is the response time of tickets.
It seems they don't have staff on call 24*7.
Sometime I don't get a response until 5~8 hours later.
All of my nodes with DO get ~200MB/s. (US region)
The thing I am not satisfied with DO is the response time of tickets.
It seems they don't have staff on call 24*7.
Sometime I don't get a response until 5~8 hours later.
It seems they don't have staff on call 24*7.
Sometime I don't get a response until 5~8 hours later.
Nearly all of my tickets have been answered in less that 30 mins. For the price, you shouldn't be expecting 24/7 support. You don't even get that with AWS unless you pay a buttload of money.
That is why I am still with DO.
They are doing a good job...
But one thing I didn't understand is .. why they removed a blog post which explained their minor downtime last month..
I used to be on a shitty node too, but then I created a new droplet from an image and this is what I've seen for the past two weeks (on AMS 1):
So it's bit of a hit-and-miss.
What's the point? Sure i bench a VPS before using it the first time to compare. But i made the experience that even DO has slower IOpings than my other VPS but an apt-get update is much faster in the updating database part.
I've always received a reply in under 10 minutes.
I/O in NL is over 300MB/s
Nope.
I don`t get it why people get so bad IO speeds..
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 2.59217 seconds, 414 MB/s
@AMS1
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 2.19469 seconds, 489 MB/s
@NY1
I dont get why people cares about IO speed either. Even 100MB/s is enough. Measure IOPS instead.
Quick IO speed = less cpu usage over time = no chance getting suspended or what so ever.
Thats atleast my take on it ;P
35 MB/s is terrible though.
I really like DO myself. Disk I/O speed isn't a big deal for me, and I love being able to spin up a VPS for next to nothing per hour. I actually use them pretty much as a temp VPS provider; I've never had a VPS with them running for a whole month. And with the free credits, I haven't even paid them anything yet. As for support response times, I've only opened one ticket, but they answered in less than one hour (fifty-four minutes to be exact), which was plenty fast enough for me considering how important the ticket was. Like I said, they make a great temp testbed for a few days, and it costs pennies.
1GB DigitalOcean server in Amsterdam running ArchLinux
[root@sql01 ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 6.52793 s, 164 MB/s
[root@sql01 ~]#
http://jasonormand.com/2013/02/08/linode-vs-digitalocean-performance-benchmarks/
DO down?
Edit: My VPS is still up, they appear to be doing some maintenance on their website