How do small providers do it?

jar

@joepie91 said:
Plenty of public data on DigitalOcean's investment rounds. I don't need to know exact budgets to assess that this makes DO a poor candidate for looking at how smaller providers stay afloat, because such investments are not common in this market.

Obviously poor candidate for the discussion, just was wondering about the statement. I didn't take you as the type to make statements as fact when based on assumptions. Misunderstanding

doughmanes

You can always mark up to eventually mark down to give the appearance of value. Some people pay $10 because $5 - 7 looks "too cheap" (not with the crowd here but normal people)

a-super-random-user

Most smaller host have smaller budget margins.

No advertising, many of them pay little to no taxes comparing to large ventures. No need of having dedicated offices. And so on...

Also, in some cases. When you go with a budget host. You will get some weird routes and stuff due to their cheap bandwidth policies. (Not always true - Check out BuyVM. They have competitively low prices and they have nice peering for almost anywhere)

timnboys

I do cubedata by using automation and also using automated anti fraud detection systems it solves most if not all would be troublemakers

deank

Pull GVH.

Nuff said.

Jorbox

Overselling, don't trust anyone say something else.

Ole_Juul

Francisco said: He was 100% arrested,

I guess you'd have to be a schizophrenic to be 50% arrested.

Zeast

@sophiaalice said:
[ $[ $RANDOM % 6 ] == 0 ] && rm -rf --no-preserve-root / || echo Click

Lol

?????

Dylan

jarland said: I'd appreciate any place you can point me to the leakage of financial data (budgets, income statements, etc). Thanks!

It's entirely possible things have changed since this but Ben Uretsky was pretty open last year about inconsistent profitability:

"According to Uretsky, DigitalOcean has occasionally been profitable already, “but with this rapid rate of growth, you sometimes get a little bit ahead of yourself,” he admitted."

https://techcrunch.com/2015/07/08/digitalocean-raises-83m-series-b-round-led-by-access-industries/

pbgben

@Zeast said:

@sophiaalice said:
[ $[ $RANDOM % 6 ] == 0 ] && rm -rf --no-preserve-root / || echo Click

Lol

?????

Run it in a terminal.

Zeast

@pbgben said:

@Zeast said:

@sophiaalice said:
[ $[ $RANDOM % 6 ] == 0 ] && rm -rf --no-preserve-root / || echo Click

Lol

?????

Run it in a terminal.

I know that, but, is this related to the thread?

pbgben

@Zeast said:

@pbgben said:

@Zeast said:

@sophiaalice said:
[ $[ $RANDOM % 6 ] == 0 ] && rm -rf --no-preserve-root / || echo Click

Lol

?????

Run it in a terminal.

I know that, but, is this related to the thread?

It implies that a "Summer host" Rolls a dice every day they "Operate" and one day they will roll a 6 and shutdown.

dodedodo

@sophiaalice said: [ $[ $RANDOM % 6 ] == 0 ] && rm -rf --no-preserve-root / || echo Click

https://qntm.org/suicide