DigitalOcean: Developer-Friendly Cloud Service On A Budget
July 12, 2013
Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Charles Babcock.
DigitalOcean is a different kind of cloud supplier. It’s added nearly two terabytes of solid state disks (actually 1,920 GBs) to each of its cloud hosts, letting customers spin up a server in 55 seconds. And that seems to score with Ruby developers, a core customer group who like to see their Rails applications running with the click of mouse. Digital Ocean has also made it easy to deploy a server through its Web-based management console.
When Ronald van Woensel, a veteran user of Amazon Web Services, did a benchmark workload with DigitalOcean, he found that it ran slower than another startup he was testing, but faster than Amazon. "DigitalOcean is about half the speed of Linode, in spite of their fast SSD disks. But they are still six times faster than Amazon," he concluded in a July 2 blog on his benchmark, which was picked up and published on Hacker News…
That may explain why Internet research and security company Netcraft reports that DigitalOcean has grown extraordinarily over the past six months. In December 2012, after a year of operation, it ranked 568th in the world among hosting providers. By the end of June 2013, it had moved up to 72nd, according to Netcraft. It also increased its number of servers from 100 to 7,000. Only Amazon.com, Chinese search engine Alibaba, and German hosting and co-location firm Hetzner Online AG added more computers to their operations than DigitalOcean, Netcraft said…
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