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DigitalOcean announces second Amsterdam datacenter

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51 points by Leftb 12 years ago · 15 comments

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xutopia 12 years ago

I've noticed that performance has been reduced greatly lately on their offering. Has anyone else noticed this? Also had a few machines randomly reboot.

/edit Just now I'm unable to join using the console access on a few of my droplets. I'm on a pretty fast internet connection (60MBps).

  • shiftpgdn 12 years ago

    I've been having similar issues hitting the OOM killer on RHEL/CentOS with only 90-160mb of ram used total on the 512mb droplets.

  • neom 12 years ago

    Curious about the performance hits you're experiencing, feel free to reach out to me directly.

    • xutopia 12 years ago

      "Failed to establish a connection to the console. Please reload." is what I'm getting on most hosts I'm running on.

marban 12 years ago

DO's offering is certainly refreshing but why does a single provider get that many upvotes on basically any customary amendment? They are nothing more than what Mediatemple is/was to the designer fraction.

  • colszowka 12 years ago

    This is actually somewhat big news because, considering the relative popularity of Digital Ocean, this alleviates 2 blocker pain points for european customers:

    * The AMS1 region used to be out of available droplets quite frequently, and in recent weeks it was entirely unavailable to book new ones (at least for me)- which is bad news for scaling existing installs. * The AMS1 region did not have private networking

    The fixing of these two points with the new region makes it much more reasonable to deploy multi-node environments to this region.

  • beachstartup 12 years ago

    because it's trendy.

    people like trends, especially the technology industry.

    larry ellison has an interesting rant about this on youtube.

colszowka 12 years ago

There seems to be a heavy rush on the region at the moment, creating a 1gb box took 17 minutes, now I'm waiting for 5 minutes for a power-off to enable private networking... `sudo shutdown` worked, but the admin job queue seems to not check on that. I'll try again tomorrow :)

colszowka 12 years ago

Yay! And private networking, too!

tlongren 12 years ago

Awesome. The private network offering is what finally got me to move some sites to DigitalOcean. Haven't looked back, I love it.

alixaxel 12 years ago

They are also A/B giving a $10 promo credit by email to some users apparently.

  • neom 12 years ago

    a/b? Don't think so....??

    • alixaxel 12 years ago

      I got two emails from them (I had two separate accounts with Gmail + aliases). In one of them, they offered me $10, the other they didn't.

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