I was about to express my outrage when I decided to actually do some research. Their posts pretty clearly indicate it is shared private networking - https://www.digitalocean.com/company/blog/introducing-privat...
What about "Shared Intranet" instead. Why has the word "intranet" fallen out of style? And why use the word private to describe something that is inherently non-private by design?
I actually think the addition of this free inter-droplet channel is amazing (and a potential massive cost saver), but the name sucks.
Having said that, people who are concerned about privacy should always be validating their setups themselves. The maxim of "trust but verify" comes to mind.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_network
[2]: https://www.digitalocean.com/company/blog/introducing-privat...
[3]: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-...
[4]: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-...
I never said they weren't "technically correct," I said the name sucked and confused people [0].
They could also just use "Data Center LAN." No confusion there.
It's not completely terrible. It's a private network in the usual sense of the word, in that it isn't part of the Internet.
> Why has the word "intranet" fallen out of style?
'Intranet' has other connotations that don't apply here. Mostly that it's an internal Web.
An example is that a network at starbucks is private to the people at the starbucks, but public in a sense that anyone there can connect.