OT: Web Application Hosting

[Nathan England]

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).



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Nathan England
nathan at nmecs.com
(480) 559-9681
https://www.nmecs.com

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