zeke 693 Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 Hi Everybody, Right now, my website is on a shared service. That means that I cannot take advantage of letsencrypt.org's free Certificates. I am considering setting up my own server on DigitalOcean.com. Does anyone have any experience with them? Are there any better alternatives? Can you share some stories from the trenches please? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
spirilis 1,265 Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 Not using them atm (using atlantic.net when they had a $1/mo promo option available) but I do know someone who works for digitalocean fwiw. zeke 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cubeberg 540 Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 Analog.io runs on Digital Ocean, as does my Phant server. Luke @ Analog.io set it up for me, so I don't really manage the dashboard piece of things. I will say their pricing is pretty cheap in comparison to azure. Not sure about Amazon. I've only had one issue where they had a big DNS failure - but my server was up and running the whole time - I just didn't have the IP to get into it for a few hours. So I don't have a ton of info on admin - but it's been pretty fool-proof so far. zeke 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
zeke 693 Posted May 26, 2016 Author Share Posted May 26, 2016 I found this website that seems to have unvarinshed, honest reviews of hosting services: http://reviewsignal.com/webhosting This guy reports that DO is reasonable. I just need some courage to spin up something called a droplet. Weird. spirilis 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
zeke 693 Posted May 26, 2016 Author Share Posted May 26, 2016 Sheesh! That was easy! They sure were violently quick on the confirmation email that they sent to me! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
spirilis 1,265 Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 I just need some courage to spin up something called a droplet. Weird. Not at all to be underestimated! After all droplets usually crash eventually.... they just don't burn Quote Link to post Share on other sites
zeke 693 Posted May 26, 2016 Author Share Posted May 26, 2016 Lovely Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bluehash 1,581 Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 @@zeke, I use linode. They have been good support and uptime wise. The crashes you see on 43oh is not because of Linode, but mysql not tuned well. I recommend them. yyrkoon 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Apr30 2 Posted May 27, 2016 Share Posted May 27, 2016 While I was doing research on this I came across Vultr and Scaleway. Don't have any experiences with them, though. Vultr * https://www.vultr.com/pricing/ * 15GB SSD, 768MB RAM * 1T Traffic * USD 5 + VAT Scaleway * https://www.scaleway.com/pricing/ * 50GB SSD, 2GB RAM * Unlimited Traffic * 2.99 EUR + VAT spirilis and zeke 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
zeke 693 Posted May 27, 2016 Author Share Posted May 27, 2016 I've got my droplet up and running now. It felt good to dust off the linux admin skills and set everything up. Here's a screen shot of the speed comparison between my old and new service provider. That's the trigger point for me. Speed. And this is running on their $5/month configuration! I now like these new guys. Here's my referral link if anyone else wants to try out Digital Ocean for themselves. PS: @@bluehash, I encountered the dreaded myslq crash this morning. I've got it sorted out already. We should compare notes. spirilis and tripwire 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
yyrkoon 250 Posted May 28, 2016 Share Posted May 28, 2016 @@zeke, I use linode. They have been good support and uptime wise. The crashes you see on 43oh is not because of Linode, but mysql not tuned well. I recommend them. My blog site runs on wulfs server which is also a linode VM. They're good, i read about them all over the web, but have never heard of digitalocean. But I have not exactly looked for a server provider in quite some time. Anyway, linode is always up . . . I can not remember the last time our server was down, and then I think that was wulfs fault. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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