As my business launches SaaS products, we evaluated cloud provider options. Having previously used AWS and own hardware, I naturally went towards these options.
After discussion with colleagues, we decided to try digitalocean. It suited our budget and needs, we deployed a few droplets, a loud balancer, cloud firewalls, and hooked up our monitoring. 24 hours later we had a good environment to deploy production on.
As we started scaling, digitalocean was able to scale with us. We then hit a road block - all our nodes ran out of space. That's when we dived into Spaces, which works perfectly for us. We setup a few spaces for test and production, and this allowed us to scale even faster.
Now, we rely on Digitalocean entirely in production.
Products used:
- Managed Databases
- Cloud Firewalls
- About 25 droplets
- Spaces (3 instances)
- Load Balancers (2)
- Volumes
- VM Backups
Satisfaction: 100%
Cost VS AWS: We are saving almost 350$/mo with digitalocean compared to AWS.
I would strongly recommend digitalocean to everyone!
Top comments (7)
And their referral process is great too!
The included bandwidth is a great plus with Digital Ocean!
Especially in our case, we use private networking extensively to save on public bandwidth. So far this week we have pushed about 656GB over private networks between hosts.
Wow that's a lot of traffic! Is it media?
I have a couple of video edge servers on Digitalocean. They are ridiculously cheap and sync perfectly.
No, it's a very data heavy SaaS, which collects data from about 95 sources, catalogue it and make it available immediately
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