DigitalOcean announces second Amsterdam datacenter

DigitalOcean announces second Amsterdam datacenter(digitalocean.com)

51 points by Leftb 12 years ago | 15 comments

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.

marban 12 years ago | | |

I know...

  "Cloud computing means using a computer that's out there"

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.

Kudos 12 years ago | |

I'm still waiting on an official response to this[1] before I'd even consider it. I went so far as to email the CEO (after receiving marketing mail from his address) and got no response.

[1] http://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digital-ocea...

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.