tchen
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Interesting 60ms. New underwater cable route? But ya, people with DR needs in the EU were kinda stuck up a boat without a paddle if they also had EU data protection requirements to meet. Now they have no excuse.
DigitalOcean Planning UK Location
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It is possible I misremembered the ms. This was like 6 months ago. My point was more it was not awful.
Also true.
New update:
VPN.SH
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Regardless of whether or not it's the most logical location they could open, it's probably going to make them more sales than opening up another USA location, or somewhere further East. Also, regardless of whether or not there are other things that should be worked on, opening up an additional location surely isn't a negative thing?
They've given themselves a few months to roll this out, and I'm sure DO is large enough to work on more than one thing at once, meaning that they won't work solely on getting an additional location up and running, as they'd most probably be working on improving their service in other areas simultaneously.
Either way, props to Digital Ocean for continuing to stretch their locations, and I personally believe that this is good progress. It'd be nice to see some more locations that are further away in terms of latency, to give them a better global stance, but this is still progress and my personal thoughts are that they should be praised for stretching themselves a little further.
They've given themselves a few months to roll this out, and I'm sure DO is large enough to work on more than one thing at once, meaning that they won't work solely on getting an additional location up and running, as they'd most probably be working on improving their service in other areas simultaneously.
Either way, props to Digital Ocean for continuing to stretch their locations, and I personally believe that this is good progress. It'd be nice to see some more locations that are further away in terms of latency, to give them a better global stance, but this is still progress and my personal thoughts are that they should be praised for stretching themselves a little further.
For DO a London option makes sense, to them if not to others. London, the UK in general is a strong market and there is money in it which is always going to be an attraction. There is a draw to this type of service rather than your more common VPS provider because DO is perceived to be more trusted by the people they want.
I don't envisage DDoS issues being focused on them, certainly not by whoever has been causing issues for other providers in the past however if they were I am sure that kind of thing is a consideration in every location they look at.
I don't envisage DDoS issues being focused on them, certainly not by whoever has been causing issues for other providers in the past however if they were I am sure that kind of thing is a consideration in every location they look at.
sundaymouse
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Any progress?
Jack
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Jack
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AThomasHowe
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Meh. If you like waiting years for features, a pretty web panel and having less choice of location stick to DO.
I don't think I'll be putting any more credit into my DO account once it runs out with Vultr about. Like everyone I was weary at first (that shitty name) but they're really proving themselves. Just hope they don't go basically stagnant too.
I don't think I'll be putting any more credit into my DO account once it runs out with Vultr about. Like everyone I was weary at first (that shitty name) but they're really proving themselves. Just hope they don't go basically stagnant too.
D. Strout
Resident IPv6 Proponent
London has officially arrived! From the e-mail:
I'm glad to see they have IPv6. Hope that gets "spread around" to their other locations soon! Have a read of the comments on the blog post though - some interesting discussions going on there about future locations and VAT compliance.
Full blog post
I'm glad to see they have IPv6. Hope that gets "spread around" to their other locations soon! Have a read of the comments on the blog post though - some interesting discussions going on there about future locations and VAT compliance.
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DomainBop
Dormant VPSB Pathogen
DO's London network is optimized for people in the Dunkirk/Gravelines area.
--- speedtest-lon1.digitalocean.com ping statistics ---
6 packets transmitted, 6 received, 0% packet loss, time 5003ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 4.196/4.261/4.442/0.105 ms
--- lon-gb-ping.vultr.com ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4003ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 7.566/7.718/8.064/0.194 ms
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Jack
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Slough isn't London it's Berkshire ;-) ;-)
I think its "OVH" your refering to in competition with DO?
I'm aware, part of the reason it's crap. At least Rapidswitch has good links to their Central London PoP's and LINX etc.
This is just pure crap transit I'm afraid, but it's going to sell to people who wouldn't know better.
syncrohost
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I'm sure they are working the IPv6 in the backend since IPv4 will likely be out soon.