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I'm rooting for them too, for the same reason. It's unhealthy for everyone to have Amazon be the only real option for servers. Just look at what happens when Amazon goes down for an hour. It's not hyperbolic to say the entire world notices.

My work doesn't even use Amazon, but when they went down last time, every _other_ service I was using used Amazon, so it didn't matter if I was vendored in or not, I had to just leave work and call it a day.

DigitalOcean is a solid platform and I use them a lot. I really hope they are not only able to succeed but bite into the profits of Amazon and the like.

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> It's unhealthy for everyone to have Amazon be the only real option for servers

I'm not belittling AWS' commanding market share, but they are hardly the "only real option for servers." Google and Azure are both in the leviathan league and have competitive pricing.

Google has the worst customer service I've ever heard of and people get wrongly banned from Google Cloud with no recourse all the time. It's not a real option to do anything vaguely important on.

Not my experience at all. We've been running in production on GCP for almost four years, four k8s clusters and a couple of hundred vms handling ~20k rps at peak, and their support has been excellent. Most importantly we haven't needed it very often.

Not my experience, either. Not a large account by any means, and support is excellent, both from a technical and business point of view.

> people get wrongly banned from Google Cloud with no recourse all the time

[citation needed]

There have been a few isolated cases that generated a lot of bad PR. From what I've heard, there were significant changes in how abuse is handled to address the root cause.

Unless DigitalOcean creates their own equivalent of a GovCloud region, they won't be an option in my industry. I do still like using DigitalOcean and Vultr for personal projects and the like.

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