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"The company is also working on IPv6, load balancing and eventually storage."

Looking at the feedback from their user base, and even rom my own experience, different storage options would be way more useful than IPv6 or even load balancing.

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It's been incredibly difficult to get an answer out of them on whether they pool bandwidth[1], which would allow you to just build your own load balancers on their smallish instances while leveraging the transfer included in the rest of your clusters.

I finally got an answer last night[2]

1. http://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digital-ocea... 2. https://twitter.com/jedgar/status/441314391301296128

Communication is my biggest issue with DO - I generally like their service but it's majorly frustrating when they just refuse to answer any questions about things like IPv6 (The best I could get out of them on that was 'Look at the UserVoice page about it' - which I already had hundreds of times over the years. Not really a great answer since the latest post by then from a staff member was something like eight months ago saying there's be a public beta in October which never needs up happening)

It's really just been a lack of people coupled with intense growth, till recently we've been well well under 50. We're working on it, and now we have money to add lots more hires.

How can storage be more important than being reachable?

Please be aware that some internet users only have native IPv6 connectivity, and that IPv4 addresses are becoming increasingly scarce, especially if you are setting up thousands if not millions of virtual machines, like DO.

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