Comment by yummyfajitas
13 years ago
There are lots of hosting providers besides digitalocean - linode is a big one, so is joyent.
I've been trying out digitalocean, but they make me nervous about reliability. Twice in 2 weeks I've gotten nonsensical abuse notifications (spamming, copyright infringement). One of the complaints was only 10 minutes after I spun up a droplet - my deploy script hadn't even finished. Makes me very nervous that DO will shut off all my droplets due to complaints about what the guy who previously owned the IP address did.
MPAA-based failure is far harder to plan for than disk failure.
Those providers are not PaaS providers, though -- they're IaaS providers. I don't want something where step 1 is "install an OS" or "configure iptables". I want something where deployment looks more like "git push origin/master --app production".
With a bit of preparatory work first, how close does this sound:
> cd app/production > vagrant up --provider=digital_ocean
?