| ▲ | gurgunday 4 days ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
DigitalOcean has been doing this for years, and their value proposition is unmatched IMO For $5 you get: Latest gen CPUs and RAM HTTPS DDoS protection Cloudflare CDN Autoscale Competent support I'd say the best part is the predictable monthly prices And while most people probably don't care, they are an established public company, so there is more chance they will exist in 10 years | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | dijksterhuis 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
are global r/w token permissions still a thing, or did the token scopes thing finally come out of beta? also, my experience with support was not the same as yours. they were utterly useless for the most part. for a personal web dev (or similar) project, like, i agree, they’ve got good value. but having worked in a small biz where DO was what they built everything on — no. bad idea. spend more. use aws (graviton ec2 instances)/azure. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | fragmede 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
the $5 droplet is underpowered and can't run anything substantial. it's just the price to get you in the door. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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