Is digital ocean profitable ? Is the 5 dollars server killing them or putting them on top of chart ?
I'm guessing that VPS providers have a low support cost/customer compared to shared hosting. No hairy compatibility issues, everything is neatly abstracted away, everyone has their own, independent environment with most of the administrative tasks offloaded onto the user.
After you toss in a few guides that double as marketing, and are usually written by the users themselves, all that's left is to take care of the hardware and bill.
[1] https://www.runabove.com/index.xml#compute
[2] https://twitter.com/olesovhcom/status/524334437039747073
I run a fair amount of dev servers, and that price ($2.50) is mind blowing. But i fear that it's far too cheap to be anything but a letdown.. Thoughts?
But the servers, the instances themselves, are not really any different. I benchmarked the cheapest one for ServerBear[1] a few days ago.
The one thing I miss is IPv6. DO is ahead here.
Would it be OK if I plugged my referral link[2]? With it, you get $10 to test things out.
[1] http://serverbear.com/benchmark/2014/12/09/ZyiLDuXgJGD577Eo
Hopefully the 1GB plan will be available soon. That tweet is from October but it doesn't appear to be available yet.
keep up the good work.
They're hardly the only VPS provider offering that price point. (Although it's true, many of the others have a slightly fly-by-night look about them. But by no means all of them.)