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I saved a ton of time after s", "context": "", "use_case": "VPS hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "We're making Bunny DNS free: because a faster internet won't build itself"}, {"id": 777324004, "item_id": 48582750, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48582750", "by": "OhSoHumble", "date": "2026-06-18", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use Digital Ocean and run a Nomad cluster on top of that.", "excerpt": "I personally just self-host. The project that I'm working on right now uses Gitea internally with an action runner. I use Digital Ocean and run a Nomad cluster on top of that. Gitea and its action runner builds container images and then pushes nomad job definitions to the cluster. I have zero downtime deployment and rolling deploys. Dagger.io is in there somewhere to make local CI mirror what happens in the action ru", "context": "", "use_case": "hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Forge We Deserve"}, {"id": 776716017, "item_id": 48544751, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48544751", "by": "kamma4434", "date": "2026-06-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "We are migrating some workloads back to DO, where things are usually way smoother.", "excerpt": "We use Vultr, DigitalOcean and Hetzner for global coverage. Vultr is by far the worst - some DC like Australia are pretty bad, lots of connectivity issues, some are OK. Their forte is that they offer a lot of DCs. We are migrating some workloads back to DO, where things are usually way smoother. Hetzner is our core, but does not offer DCs in Asia, Africa or Latam.", "context": "", "use_case": "global hosting", "switched_from": "Vultr", "story": "Hetzner increased dedicated server prices 3-4x"}, {"id": 765185392, "item_id": 47824087, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47824087", "by": "diebillionaires", "date": "2026-04-19", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I found their customer support to be rude, and their offerings to be overpriced.", "excerpt": "I moved away from digital ocean about 6 years ago and never looked back. I found their customer support to be rude, and their offerings to be overpriced.", "context": "", "use_case": "cloud hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner: From $1,432 to $233 With Zero Downtime"}, {"id": 761243328, "item_id": 47577708, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47577708", "by": "apple4ever", "date": "2026-03-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love Digital Ocean. The UI and the service itself is great.", "excerpt": "Let's just hope this helps their service and doesn't lead to them making it worse. I love Digital Ocean. The UI and the service itself is great. API is nice too.", "context": "", "use_case": "cloud hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "DigitalOcean Seeks $800M in Funding"}, {"id": 761240368, "item_id": 47577523, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47577523", "by": "3pt14159", "date": "2026-03-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "The UI is leagues better than AWS and there are really useful API endpoints to control common things.", "excerpt": "I love DigitalOcean to the point where I actually applied for a job there[0]. The UI is leagues better than AWS and there are really useful API endpoints to control common things. I've been a paying customer for something like 12 years and I've never had an issue. [0] They never got back to me, sadly.", "context": "paying customer for about 12 years", "use_case": "cloud hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "DigitalOcean Seeks $800M in Funding"}, {"id": 747966017, "item_id": 46747876, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46747876", "by": "sshine", "date": "2026-01-24", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Clouds like DigitalOcean will 429 throttle me for making too many plans in a row with only 100+ resources.", "excerpt": "I love how terraform can describe what I\u2019ve got. Sort of. Assuming I or my colleagues or my noob customers don\u2019t modify resources on the same account. I don\u2019t love how unreliable providers are, even for creating resources. Clouds like DigitalOcean will 429 throttle me for making too many plans in a row with only 100+ resources. Sometimes the plan goes through, but the apply fails. Sometimes halfway through. I\u2019d rathe", "context": "", "use_case": "cloud hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Why Does Destroying Resources via TF Suck?"}, {"id": 740368807, "item_id": 46273050, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46273050", "by": "pk3", "date": "2025-12-15", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "It's running on the $12/mo DigitalOcean droplet.", "excerpt": "https://charityrecord.com I'm working on a charitable donation tracker for taxpayers. My wife and I used Intuit's ItsDeductible for years until it shut down in October. With a little encouragement, I built Charity Record. The stack is Django 5.2 (I know, I know, I'm looking at 6 now), Postgres, and HTMX + Alpine.js for interactivity. I'm using Polar for subscriptions. It's running on the $12/mo DigitalOcean droplet. ", "context": "", "use_case": "hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"}, {"id": 737355952, "item_id": 46084747, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46084747", "by": "more_corn", "date": "2025-11-28", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Digital ocean! They make those awesome blog posts about how to do easy tech stuff", "excerpt": "Digital ocean! They make those awesome blog posts about how to do easy tech stuff I should really have memorized and really don\u2019t want to admit I have to look up.", "context": "", "use_case": "cloud hosting and tutorials", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Which cloud provider do you like best and why?"}, {"id": 733153777, "item_id": 45822111, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45822111", "by": "jwr", "date": "2025-11-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "do yourself a favor and use DigitalOcean, it is simple and direct and will let you keep your sanity", "excerpt": "This is all correct. I've been running my own servers for many years now, keeping things simple and saving a lot of money and time (setting anything up in AWS or Azure is horribly complicated and the UIs are terrible). One thing to remember is that you do need to treat your servers as \"cloud servers\" in the sense that you should be able to re-generate your entire setup from your configuration at any time, given a bun", "context": "runs own servers for many years, runs a business", "use_case": "cloud servers, disaster recovery", "switched_from": "", "story": "I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars"}]}