OT: Web Application Hosting

[Thomas Cameron]

On 05/16/2016 04:40 PM, Nathan England wrote:
> 
> I have been using Digital Ocean for several years now and I have dozens
> of droplets running Centos. My typical scenario consists of spinning up
> a droplet, configuring it for lamp, and developing to my clients specs.
> All development is done locally and then moved to the droplet for client
> testing and everything else that comes along with consulting.
> 
> Once everything is completed and the client is happy, in every case, I
> have then moved the application to a different web host, such as
> Rackspace or GoDaddy, depending on what the client requests or their
> ability to self-manage...
> 
> In all the years I have worked with these hosts, along with others like
> Bluehost and Hostgator, I have had significantly less problems with my
> Digital Ocean virtual hosts than I have on any of the other
> "professional" hosting companies.
> 
> I'm currently spending ~$1200 a month with Rackspace and have constant
> issues, almost daily outages, and my dev servers for the same
> application on DO have been up for months. (Some issues are purely
> network related which is out of my control and Rackspace does not want
> to acknowledge any issues, and some are purely because some people in
> China want to be my friend...)
> 
> Is anyone else using DO for production environments? I guess my real
> issue is I've not used DO with a major application under sustained heavy
> load (cpu/memory/network).


I won't use anyone else but DigitalOcean for my production workloads.

The rest - Rackspace, Amazon, Azure, etc. - are too damned expensive,
too damned flaky, and don't even come close to the level of customer
service I get from DO.

Thomas