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DigitalOcean Blog
Company blog · digitalocean.com/blog · on HN as raiyuprogrammingsystems
DigitalOcean Blog is the company blog at digitalocean.com, writing about programming and systems. Since 2012, 1,217 different Hacker News readers have linked it 1,636 times, most often “Digital Ocean – Shut Down – Zero Notice Without Reason”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
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Most-linked posts?
- Digital Ocean – Shut Down – Zero Notice Without Reason44 people · 54 mentions · first linked 2012-11-03
- New DigitalOcean Droplet pricing25 people · 26 mentions · first linked 2014-03-07
- DigitalOcean offers 512MB/20GB SSD virtual machines for $5/Mo20 people · 22 mentions · first linked 2013-01-14
- Digital Ocean's network is down?17 people · 17 mentions · first linked 2012-05-19
- Early Access Program for Kubernetes on DigitalOcean16 people · 17 mentions · first linked 2018-05-02
- How to Create an SSH CA to Validate Hosts and Clients14 people · 14 mentions · first linked 2015-04-16
- /community/tutorials11 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2014-10-18
- Hatch10 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2016-09-07
- A web UI for generating various Nginx configs10 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2020-05-04
- Digital Ocean Spaces – Object Storage10 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2018-06-18
What Hacker News says?
(To set the tone clearly - this seems like an area where you know a _lot_ more than me, so any questions or "challenges" below should be considered as "I am probably misunderstanding this thing - if you have the time and inclination, I'd really appreciate an explanation of what I'm missing" rather than "you are wrong and I am right") I don't know if you're intentionally using "colour" to reference https://journal.st…
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on “Niklaus Wirth has died”Submitted DigitalOcean now supports FreeBSD as a story · 552 points
HN discussionhttps://www.digitalocean.com/products/block-storage/
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on “You Are Not Google (2017)”Submitted Common Server Setups For Your Web App as a story · 371 points
HN discussionIf you have a Linux box (or a VM), install and configure it to route mail and provide IMAP support. Digital Ocean has the best tutorials for this: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-... Then configure a new mail account in Outlook and connect to the IMAP server. It's optional, but convenient for replies, to configure the account to send via postfix if you have an internal SMTP server to conn…
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on “All my servers have an 8 GB empty file on disk”Submitted Fully managed PostgreSQL databases as a story · 368 points
HN discussionIANAL, but DO's ToS is loaded with weasel words.[0] So if they can sue in some jurisdiction where the binding arbitration and liability limitations don't apply, maybe they could at least get a fair settlement. 0) https://www.digitalocean.com/legal/terms-of-service-agreemen...
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on “"DigitalOcean Killed Our Company"”Submitted DigitalOcean Raises $83M in Series B Funding as a story · 328 points
HN discussionI agree with the other comments about not having backups in the same place, and ensuring that you distribute your assets (domain, DNS, compute, backups, etc.) across as many providers as possible. One thing I will add is that, especially for a small shop or project, assume from the get go that by renting infrastructure from DO (or any provider) that user-hostile actions can and will be taken when it comes to any iss…
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on “"DigitalOcean Killed Our Company"”Submitted DigitalOcean introduces Load Balancers as a story · 308 points
HN discussionYou can also setup your own, get a VM in the free world and setup an open VPN server. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-...
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on “Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?”Submitted DigitalOcean Introduces Kubernetes Product as a story · 278 points
HN discussionIMO, the safest route for an individual with tech competency is to setup a small instance server in the cloud outside your country and use ssh port forwarding and a proxy to get at information you want. For an example of a proxy service https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-... That will give you a hard to snoop proxy service that should completely circumvent a government blockaid (they likely…
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on “Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?”Submitted New DigitalOcean Pricing as a story · 267 points
HN discussionAnother not so long guide: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/7-security-...
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on “My First 10 Minutes on a Server”Submitted Highly Available Block Storage as a story · 262 points
HN discussionOne fairly trustworthy solution is to just set up a DigitalOcean droplet ($5/month) (or any other cloud provider, I just prefer DO), and host your own VPN. DO provides a guide at https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-... With regards to setting it up on Android, that does alleviate this specific privacy concern, however it is still entrusting your OS to Google and our carrier, neither of which…
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on “US telcos appear to be selling non-anonymized access to consumer telephone data”Submitted Cloud Firewalls as a story · 189 points
HN discussionI run it on my server in the basement, but you could go for a Digital Ocean droplet, there used to be "one click" installs, but I'm not finding those anymore [0]. There are a lot of tutorials thought you could use. This is my referral link which will get you 10$ and me 25$ [1] (runs a 5$ droplet for 2 months with more than enough specs, if you need more space, that is also easily achieved at DO). Or use this link fr…
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on “Alternatives to Google Products”Submitted Introducing Private Networking as a story · 185 points
HN discussionhttps://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/does-digita...
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on “Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS”Submitted DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing as a story · 172 points
HN discussionReading through that second one, while the inciting incident was certainly pretty bad, their eventual response was, to my mind, all that could be hoped from a company in this day and age: https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/an-update-on-last-weeks-cu... ? They recognized that their processes were too mechanistic and inhuman, and introduced a lot more compassion and open communication into them—and even chose to spend…
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on “Amazon met with startups about investing, then launched competing products”Submitted Impact to DigitalOcean customers resulting from Mailchimp security incident as a story · 168 points
HN discussion> Shared VPS hosting pretty much all bans email, AWS, DO, etc all have ToS that say "no email" as anti-spam measures. Complete FUD. Here is DO's acceptable use policy: https://www.digitalocean.com/legal/acceptable-use-policy You can see that they explicitly have policies for email hosts. Here is a guide they host on how to setup a mail server: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-run-... They forb…
Comment linking /community/tutorials/how-to-run-your-own-mail-server-with-mail-in-a-box-on-ubuntu-14-04
on “Internet Archive: Security breach alert”Submitted Get Your Development Team Started With Go as a story · 160 points
HN discussionYou're absolutely on the right track. There are well-established statistics tools that formalize your intuition and carry it forward to its logical conclusion. > "by day of week" This means you have a time series with daily resolution (one observation per day) and you expect Weekly Seasonality to matter. Model this as 7-period lag in your daily series. > based on % of increase from other markets if no previous years…
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on “You probably don't need AI/ML. You can make do with well written SQL scripts”Submitted DigitalOcean’s quarterly report on developer trends in the cloud as a story · 145 points
HN discussionSo, looking at some potential things to switch to... OVH has two interesting products here: OVH cloud archive works with rsync, costs roughly half as much for storage as blackblaze, roughly the same for egress, but charges for ingress (at the same rate as egress). OVH object store is s3 compatible (like blackblaze), charges roughly the same for bandwidth, 2x for storage. https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/public-cloud/pric…
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on “Backblaze submitting names and sizes of files in B2 buckets to Facebook”Submitted DigitalOcean Functions: A powerful serverless computing solution as a story · 109 points
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