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Anyone with experience operating on DO want to comment on this? They have great marketing and seem like they offer a nice developer experience, but reviews like this are pretty bad…

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Most of these read like the kinds of nastygrams I've received at two separate companies when we shut off fraudulent accounts. The nice thing about DO is that they are easy to try at very small scale, it's probably safe to dismiss these particular reviews.

I've been operating a fairly active messageboard off them for nearly 3 years now, so far I've not had a single outage, and their AI abuse system hasn't decided to bestow its wrath on me yet.

I've also hosted about a dozen client sites of varying sizes with them over the last few years, no issues from any of those either.

There’s little that looks trustworthy about these reviews. There are some threads here where people talk about running production on DO: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

I have about 10 servers running on DO, one of them for email. I do everything to look trustworthy but my email still ends up in spam so I'm assuming a bad IP block range.

Anyhoo, I also do a bunch of DNS stuff with DO. Haven't had issues in the past...is it 5 years I've been with them?

I have a friend who works at Vultr so I'm testing them out for a side project.

A lot of the reviews are…suspicious to say the least. Have used DO for ~3 years without any major complaints. There was once a small window of time in which a site I host was down for ~20 mins, but apart from that was robust and good value. No reasons to jump ship here.

I’ve used them professionally and personally for the past 3-5 years and I don’t have a bad experience to speak of.

I haven’t run any large infrastructure, though. Mainly micro services and web sites—so mainly a couple of VPS instances, databases, and volumes.

All good.

I run a small site with them and I have nothing to complain. It's cheap and easy.

I have some experience with the Oracle cloud and I find it unnecessarily complicated (as all things Oracle tend to be).

I've been hosting things on them for the last ~5 years. They're fine. It's all been small webserver stuff, so nothing huge (3 droplets), but I've had no complaints.

I used them for small, basic stuff 10 years ago and liked it fine. Not an exciting data point, but one for the pile.

Never had a problem with DO.

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