digitalocean

TL;DR:  DO decided to go the debt route rather than begging for more VC funding, and it just took out a loan of $130 million which is more than the $123 million an assortment of venture capitalists had previously coughed up. full...

DigitalOcean's DNS disruption post-mortem

I've been using the DO API to automate some things like  VPS reboot and snapshoot adding DNS records to configure email with Zoho You can find the scripts on my github. Feel free to fork away / come with other examples / use cases that you've automated or need automation.

DigitalOcean announced that now you can share your resources without giving out your password with Team Account!     Quoting from DO's Blog Link Here: https://www.digitalocean.com/company/blog/team-accounts-share-resources-not-passwords/   Anyways, cool stuff!  

Yesterday, DigitalOcean announced it received a line of credit worth $50 million from Fortress Investment Group. From the press release: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20141209006143/en/Fast-Growing-DigitalOcean-Receives-50-Million-Expand “A large line of credit makes sure we’re able...

Hey guys thought I'd share my DigitalOcean vs Linode vs Vultr benchmarks I just did using my own benchmark script, centminmodbench.sh :) Full results at https://community.centminmod.com/threads/digitalocean-vs-linode-vs-vultr-48gb-16-cpus-centminmodbench-sh-results.1389/ :D Still trying to...

Hi! DigitalOcean and Serverbear are doing a giveaway of $1000 DigitalOcean credit, or 9 winners for $50! Sign up here: https://gleam.io/866v7-eyGDZw (non-referral: http://serverbear.com) and click on the blue button in the right corner :-)

For new droplet  for old droplet :)

Received this via my email for any DO users. https://digitalocean.com/company/blog/easily-transfer-snapshots-between-accounts/

One of the co-founder's of DigitalOcean (Moisey Uretsky) has made a statement saying that they are planning to launch a UK location. Quoted from their suggestion forum: http://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digitalocean/suggestions/3069422-add-uk-data-center.

Howdy everyone!   So I decided to spin up an instance of DigitalOcean Singapore and Vultr Japan to see which one truly kicks more butt for Asia! (Or in my case... for me).  This may look like a review, but its not meant to be a review (probably because I just got this and believe a true review...

So Choopa has dropped a new product called Vultr.com, it's attempt to compete directly with DigitalOcean. A side-by-side comparison of vultr.com and digitialocean.com show a lot of similarities.  A total ripoff if I may say so myself. The bottom end package 512MB, 20GB disk and 1TB transit is...

https://github.com/fog/fog/issues/2525 How can something like this get overlooked? One would think if they made a design choice to reuse block-level media instead of use some sort of virtual disk, the idea of sharing the drive between two users might've come up at some point? What do you guys...

http://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digital-ocean/suggestions/4038460-hong-kong-and-japan-datacenters

So I'm as giddy as a school girl right now.  Digital Ocean finally has servers in 111 8th street in the heart of New York City!  This is also the Google Datacenter downtown (Google now owns the building) and is known to have a great network.  I've been looking for a service here for a few years...