I never understood why anyone would host on DO, they were always much more expensive then the competitors.
Seriously, most people probably could get by with a free VPS or free shell account.
Never heard of CSS tricks; I tried to investigate in the posted article, but too much emojis.
Where are these free vps
Just put “free vps” or “free shell account” into a good search engine. For example: https://freeshell.de/services/
Or this is almost free (0.1 $ / month): https://tierhive.com/
Huh that really is cheap, thing stopping me from self hosting is public IPs being expensive so that could be a cheap loophole.
Doubt you could host much on that
It is still enough for babbys first website/newsletter/blog etc. 128 MB is plenty for any personal website; you could probably even run a shop on that.
Our company’s website requires 5 MB storage and no database.
The amount of hail mary’s CSS-Tricks was able to get me through is innumerable.
Vote with your wallet. Yesterday I dumped all my Digital Ocean stuff, closed my account and let them know why.
I appreciate the sentiment, but I think the reality is the number of people who are so upset over this that they switch providers… is a rounding error.
Hey friends, your individual actions mean nothing, please continue supporting people making things worse.
Act in life knowing your individual actions mean nothing often.
^ Individual who pisses in public pools
wat
And additionally the vast majority of their money likely comes from large enterprise accounts, who couldn’t give two shits about dhh and omarchy, or who also actively support it, racist / fascist dog whistles and all
Digital Ocean grew because they targeted devs and hackers, and they introduced it into their companies. Same goes here. My personal account may not have been that big, but I also dropped DO from the list of recommend providers at work. They won’t be getting any new business from us. And when contract renewals start rolling around, projects will start moving to other providers.
Hell yeah! Hit em’ with the wam bam, fuck off, man.
Something website administrators could do is, block the DigitalOcean ASN (14061).
Some configuration may be required, it’s easier if you have some kind of WAF (firewall), but seeing that most traffic from their network are bots (92%), them being blocked would hurt their clients and inevitably lower their usage in the long run.
“Bot” there doesn’t necessarily imply a malicious spam/AI bot… legitimate B2B use is also included, which is a much higher percentage than illegitimate traffic. Same for AWS, other cloud providers, and even Cloudflare itself.
Bot traffic describes any non-human Internet traffic
I moved my work’s dev environment after 12 years of giving DO money. Not much but add my middle finger to the pile.
What did you move to? I’m in the same boat.
Depends where you are. Look up local (organic) data centres near you.
Local, organic, free range data centers
Trying out OVHcloud but can’t vouch for it until it’s set up. Good unmanaged option out of Quebec which is near-ish to me.
Canadian servers owned and operated by a French company outside of the CLOUD Act’s reach. Important to me on principle.
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Literally why though? I just don’t get this.
Because the guy that owns DigitalOcean is a cunt.
who is also friends with DHH which is what the majority of these “donors” are. they’re just his friends who just so happen to own these dumb tech companies.
Rails was explosive 15 to 20 years ago (I hated it and I think it made me a dumber programmer) so it kind of makes since that these two industry movers became close that"grew up" around the same time.
Supporting racist posts by the main guy.
Ah yea, I remember what it was like to see all those “we stand with Ukraine banners,” and the weird ones about antisemitism, but almost never the anti-apartheid and anti-genocide ones against actual Nazis. Yet here is another Ed Sheeran supposedly fighting the Nazis by being silent against the Nazis. Wonder what else you’ll find about him.
