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They've done a lot, but apparently it hasn't been particularly successful. Their new "Documentation" platform didn't really ever gain traction: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/354217/sunsetting-d...

> we're able to constantly test master

You seemed to have missed this.

A good non-technical explainer: https://medium.com/@nzdominic/what-is-httpoxy-65a33a8a1f4d#....

If you're looking for a way to check out Horizon and don't already have RethinkDB up and running locally, we've put a One-Click app together over on DigitalOcean: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-...

16.04 is available on DO now!

Hi! If you have never applied a promo code to your DigitalOcean account in the past, this code will still work for you. It's really just meant to give new users a chance to try out DO, and we've provided similar opportunities many times in the past.

Just to be clear, we are powering free CI runners for all GitLab.com users. In all honesty, the promo code was a bit of an afterthought.

Sorry to hear that. That does sound incredibly frustrating. Send me an email at asb@digitalocean.com We can discuss how DO can support your hackerspace, and I can take a deeper look into why you got caught up in our verification process.

Sure thing. Expect an email in the morning.

Hey! Guess I miss-typed a bit, and it's too late to fix. We have two separate teams, a Networking team and a SWE-Networking team. It seems we don't have a proper "network engineer" posting up right now, but if you know someone interested they should still get in touch (http://do.co/1mf6HgB).

Great response! I can totally understand the feeling.

We do work with a number of other incubators. DO itself is an alumni of TechStars. We have some stuff in the works with 500 Startups. We're definitely interested in working with other incubators as well. If you're involved with one, feel free to reach out to me at asb@digitalocean.com I'll make sure to get you to the right folks at DO.

If you're not in an incubator, check out the link I shared below. There's still a lot our customer success team can do for you.

Storage is also an area we're working on heavily right now, and we should have some good news soon. We definitely recognize that there's a lot of demand for more storage without the need for the corresponding upgrade in compute power. Check out the update from our product team on this UserVoice request, and vote/subscribe to get updates:

http://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digitalocean...

We're always looking for ways to help startups get up and running on our platform. If you're not a YC company, reach out to our customer success team. They can help you get started. If you're already a DO user, they can help you scale up.

https://www.digitalocean.com/company/contact/sales/

Thanks!

Storage and networking are both areas we're investing a lot of work into right now. Blob storage isn't the first on the roadmap on the storage side, but I'll definitely pass on this feedback.

We have a lot of interesting stuff coming up later this year around networking. Some of it will be behind the scenes, but it is going to open up a lot of new possibilities for user-facing features. We're looking to give users a lot more control over their network while maintaining our focus on UX simplicity.

Might be a good time to mention we're hiring network engineers as well:

https://www.digitalocean.com/company/careers#software-engine...

Just to confirm, we use KVM across our fleet at DO.

Yes. Similar to programs offered by other providers, this credit does expire after one year.

Hi! I'd love to hear your feedback about our documentation. I work with the team that produces our tutorials. Are there areas you don't think we cover well, or is it something else? With 1,200+ tutorials, our docs are actually something I'm extremely proud of, but we're always looking to improve.

/me waves

There seems to be a bit of confusion about how we handle kernels at DO. Hopefully I can clear things up a bit. On newer distro versions (e.g. Ubuntu >= 15.04, Debian 8, Fedora, CoreOS, FreeBSD) we no longer use "external" kernels. You are free to compile and use custom kernels. We're happy with what we've seen, and with Ubuntu 16.04 around the corner our default distribution will have support for this as well. After that point, we'll be backporting the change to older releases.

For Droplets still running with external kernels, we import new ones on a regular basis as they are released. If you happen to need one that hasn't been imported yet, just open a support ticket and the team will do so.

Just break in! No other humans inside.

We do! We've got positions open for full-time in-house writers:

https://www.digitalocean.com/company/careers#technical-write...

We also run a program where we pay freelancers on a per-article basis:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/get-paid-to-write

Hey! Just wanted to give you a quick update on this. We had been in the process of completing a full third-party audit to ensure Safe Harbor compliance. This has been completed, and our status has been update on export.gov:

https://safeharbor.export.gov/companyinfo.aspx?id=27566

These folks seemed to tried that approach, but gave up on Ironic for a number of reasons:

https://www.packet.net/blog/how-we-failed-at-openstack

Depending on demand, adding other BSD variants is certainly a possibility. We had to start somewhere, and the FreeBSD community has been very vocal about wanting to see this happen. This is the first non-Linux OS we've decided to support, so we're excited to get feedback on it.

We've already put together a lot of basic documentation in-house, [0] but we'd love to expand on what we have in the library. Checkout our "get paid to write" program. [1]

[0] https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tags/freebsd?primary_... [1] https://www.digitalocean.com/community/get-paid-to-write

We built the DO community site from scratch as there was nothing else out there that offered the tight integration we wanted between presenting content and offering a place to ask questions and discuss. Even though it didn't meet all of our requirements, we're big fans of Discourse. It's a great platform for hosting discussions.

If you're looking for something that follows the Q&A model, there are quite a few StackOverflow inspired sites out there:

http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2267/stack-exchange-...

Looks great! I made something similar using Python and Gtk+ targeting Ubuntu (https://github.com/andrewsomething/digitalocean-indicator).

You might want to consider moving to v2 of the DigitalOcean API. One nice thing you get is OAuth. It makes connecting to the user's account much more friendly.

You should also submit it to the projects page on the DO community site:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/projects/

Right. When Sergey Belove originally reported this to DigitalOcean, one of our engineers reported and fixed this in upstream Doorkeeper.

This Wired article gets into the why:

http://www.wired.com/2014/12/io-js/

I'm evaluating some different solutions to this problem and would love to hear from anyone who has experience with both this and HTTPretty.