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DigitalOcean Blog
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DigitalOcean Blog is the company blog at blog.digitalocean.com, writing about systems, web and startups. Since 2017, 100 different Hacker News readers have linked it 123 times, most often “An update on last week's customer shutdown incident”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Dive into DigitalOcean product updates, company news, and educational content on how developers and startups can leverage the cloud.
Most-linked posts?
- An update on last week's customer shutdown incident6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2019-06-04
- Cloud Firewalls: Secure Droplets by Default5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2017-06-07
- Bring Your Custom Image to DigitalOcean5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2018-09-25
- Announcing Early Access to DigitalOcean Kubernetes4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2018-05-02
- A Message About Intel's L1TF Security Vulnerability3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-08-15
- Hacktoberfest 20173 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-09-29
- Why We Chose Ceph to Build Block Storage3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-06-01
- Jigsaw's private VPN gives a line out to journalists3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-11-23
- Kicking Off the New Year with New Droplet Plans3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-01-16
- DigitalOcean Surpasses 1M Users2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-07-19
What Hacker News says?
But then there's Outline, from Alphabet's Jigsaw.[0] It utterly simplifies the creation of private VPN servers on Digital Ocean droplets.[1] They use Shadowsocks obfuscation. It's apparently effective against China's Great Firewall, and seems popular among Chinese dissidents. So the main intended application is pretty obvious, no? So are they playing both sides? Or trying to con the Chinese government? Or just a lar…
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on “We are Google employees – Google must drop Dragonfly”Submitted An update on last week's customer shutdown incident as a story · 578 points
HN discussionLast week ended on a real low note for many of us at DO. We took a perfectly good customer and gave them an experience no one should have to go through (all while he was trying to leave on vacation no less). We can and must do better. To do better we need to learn from our mistakes. To that end, we also think sharing the information about this incident openly is the best way to help all our customers understand what…
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on “"DigitalOcean Killed Our Company"”Submitted DigitalOcean VPC as a story · 357 points
HN discussionOmg! Yesterday I read a post where the author admitted that if people believe it's an advert then it is because they want great people to come and work in the company. https://blog.digitalocean.com/from-15-000-database-connectio...
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on “DigitalOcean is laying off staff”Submitted Spaces: Scalable Object Storage on DigitalOcean as a story · 151 points
HN discussionLike how Digital Ocean failed at scrubbing disks before giving them to new customers, revealing private data? https://blog.digitalocean.com/transparency-regarding-data-se...
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on “DigitalOcean launches its container service”Submitted Cthulhu: Organizing Go Code in a Scalable Repo as a story · 111 points
HN discussionlink this instead? https://blog.digitalocean.com/digitalocean-releases-k8s-as-a...
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on “DigitalOcean launches its container service”Submitted Bring Your Custom Image to DigitalOcean as a story · 98 points
HN discussionhttps://blog.digitalocean.com/where-do-droplets-form/ I don't think this feels like a bubble.
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on “The State of Machine Learning Frameworks”Submitted DigitalOcean Marketplace as a story · 96 points
HN discussionhttps://blog.digitalocean.com/an-update-on-last-weeks-custom...
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on “Google Kubernetes Engine is introducing a cluster management fee on June 6”Submitted Announcing Limited Availability of DigitalOcean Kubernetes as a story · 58 points
HN discussionAmusingly, much of the backend of digitalocean runs via kubernetes. They way they do k8s secrets in hashicorp vault is pretty nice actually: https://blog.digitalocean.com/vault-and-kubernetes/
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on “Kubernetes by Example”Submitted DigitalOcean Acquires Nanobox as a story · 52 points
HN discussionhttps://blog.digitalocean.com/a-message-about-l1tf/
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on “Disable SMT/Hyperthreading in all Intel BIOSes”Submitted DigitalOcean begins CEO search as a story · 47 points
HN discussionTo clarify here and from the launch blog post [0]. > Ingress bandwidth is always free, and egress fees ($0.01/GB per month) will be waived for 2019. In other words, we're not charging while we build this out. 0: https://blog.digitalocean.com/announcing-managed-databases-f...
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on “Fully managed PostgreSQL databases”Submitted Kicking Off the New Year with New Droplet Plans as a story · 45 points
HN discussionoh - are they? I read this [1] blog post a couple weeks ago which has no mention of GPUs. [1] https://blog.digitalocean.com/whats-new-for-2019/
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on “Fully managed PostgreSQL databases”Submitted DigitalOcean launched managed PostgreSQL as a story · 43 points
HN discussionI'm glad they plugged their outbound network transfer fees compared to the others[1]. I was shocked and horrified when my AWS bill (which I pay myself) quadrupled due to outgoing network transfer fees. It's truly outrageous what they charge. I use Digital Ocean a lot now simply to avoid nasty surprises like that. I hope AWS and Google change that. [1] https://blog.digitalocean.com/its-all-about-the-bandwidth-wh...
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on “DigitalOcean VPC”Submitted Digital Ocean Managed Databases for MySQL and Redis Released as a story · 38 points
HN discussionConsidering it was announced at least as far back as August[0], I highly doubt it. [0]: https://blog.digitalocean.com/2018-mid-year-product-update/ (look at the bottom of the article)
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on “Digital Ocean Managed Databases”Submitted From 15,000 database connections to under 100: DigitalOcean's tech debt tale as a story · 35 points
HN discussionThis was linked above https://blog.digitalocean.com/an-update-on-last-weeks-custom... It doesn't explain any detail behind why there was radio silence until social media support stepped in, which is what I'm very curious about, but it does have a timeline of events and an apology.
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on “Why the “Digital Ocean killed my company” incident scares the hell out of me”Submitted How 2,000 Servers Broke the Enigma Code in 13 Minutes as a story · 30 points
HN discussionDigital Ocean's statement on the events: https://blog.digitalocean.com/an-update-on-last-weeks-custom... Lots of support related issues here. As someone who worked in support for a long time it isn't surprising to see this play out and the whole "Support and Security Operations leadership will create new workflows to allow abuse-related events to leverage the 24/7 structure of Support." while probably a good action…
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on “Why the “Digital Ocean killed my company” incident scares the hell out of me”Submitted DigitalOcean Kubernetes Is Now Generally Available as a story · 23 points
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