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August 29, 2019 - I really would like to have a little bit more freedom in that direction, but hey you cannot have everything ;D More replies More replies More replies ... That's the shit you really want. More replies ... I know that one service is using this approach. ... Hey again, Kubernetes user

April 5, 2026 - API maturity - DigitalOcean's API and CLI tools (doctl) feel more polished than Vultr's equivalent. For raw compute per dollar, Vultr wins. For ecosystem and polish, DigitalOcean wins. I moved because my workloads are straightforward and I don't need managed services.

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Dec 18, 2025 Investigating: As of 17:47 UTC, our Engineering team is investigating reports of intermittent 504 errors when making requests to api.digitalocean.com and cloud.digitalocean.com. Users may experience sporadic errors, resulting in a… stspg.io/pt2c38386cj0?u… user avatar DigitalOcean Statu

DigitalOcean support is unacceptable! If uptime matters, avoid. Production site 24+ hours, no real response, no escalation. ... I was hoping this was a good hosting service.

| | | | | --- | | | DigitalOcean block storage is down (digitalocean.com) | | | | 165 points by kaendfinger on Sept 30, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 83 comments | | | | | | | | | | --- --- | | | | | | --- | | | CaliforniaKarl on Sept 30, 2019 | next (javascript:void(0)) Personally, if DO don’t ha

| | | | --- | | | zackelan on March 24, 2016 | parent | next (javascript:void(0)) For an example of this taken to a ludicrous extreme, several years ago an AWS user complained that downtime of a few EC2 instances were putting lives at risk. They were hosting cardiac monitoring services on single EC2

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Oct 10, 2025 · This week, my Vercel account was suddenly disabled and all of my deployments and data were deleted. I received no warning, no suspension notice, and no post-action explanation. When I emailed their support to ask what happened, they refused to give a reason and simply said they wouldn

People still use Vercel because of simplicity/ease-to-use with nextjs (mostly). Edit I say “still” because if Vercel wants and if they are successful at it, in becoming a more broad hosting option (e.g good .NET support) then there will be more people choosing it besides Nextjs integration.

Vercel Drop lets you deploy a file or folder by dragging it into your browser. You don't need Git, the Vercel CLI, or any local setup. Drop a project onto vercel.com/drop, pick a team and project name, and select Deploy. Vercel will create a new project, upload your files, and publish them straight

For our business model, and engineering experience, deploying Nextjs to a serverful environment made sense. It has a predictable cost + autoscaling within reason. We use Heroku. There are a dozen other good options, but don't discount deploying to a serverful environment if you want predictable bill

My issue with using Vercel for "real workloads" is the pricing though. 100GB of Bandwidth for $40 is a blocker. I love how easy the experience is to throw up an app and test it in the real world, the dashboard is great, build times are excellent, but I can't see myself paying that high of a premium.

Vercel is one of the smoothest platforms for shipping Next.js products quickly. The biggest value is the developer experience: connect a repo, push code, get preview deployments, and ship changes without spending too much time on infrastructure. For early SaaS products, landing pages, MVPs, and mark

Reviews look pretty good overall, but I can't tell if they are mostly VPS or shared hosting. They do have a good money-back guarantee, so that

They manage to bridge the gap by offering high-end performance with intuitive management dashboards that anyone can navigate. Their custom security architecture

Hey everyone, I’ve been testing different hosting providers for my PPC landing pages, and I recently gave ScalaHosting a shot. So far, I’m pretty impressed

ScalaHosting is a Bulgarian web hosting company that ranks high on TrustPilot, G2, and other review sites. Here's my take on it... *Correction: According

ScalaHosting is one of the hosting providers. They seem to have good reviews/ratings albeit most are for their VPS. sign up with ScalaHosting.

December 6, 2024 - Both ScalaHosting and Cloudways are gems in their own way — it really comes down to what you’re looking for in a hosting provider 🧐.

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August 1, 2023 - First, you need to make sure you get the right hosting plan, and then, you must ensure your messages are reliably delivered every time. Quite a few things could go wrong if you don't know what you're doing, which is why, we've created a guide that will show you how to avoid the most

My Brief Experience with Hetzner : Perhaps a Few Words of Caution? I recently attempted to become a customer at Hetzner , but my experience was cut short (about four days).... We used to use Hetzner.com from 2017 - 2021, until we finally ceased operations and closed down. During that time, we had no

| | | | | --- | | | Hetzner\_OL 8 months ago | next (javascript:void(0)) Hi HN readers, Due to a service disruption that unfortunately occurred again, both the Cloud API and the Hetzner Console were temporarily unavailable for some users. We regret the delayed communication regarding the disruption.

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| | | jeduardo on May 20, 2025 | next (javascript:void(0)) 6 years ago when I used Hetzner, it was widely known as unreliable, a provider where you could get hosting that delivered good performance for a cheap price. The tradeoff always was that you needed to treat each machine almost as EC2 Spot: i

Yeah, had the same situation. We also have one vendor that integrates with out system and they stopped sending any requests from Hetzner yesterday, they typically send traffic from two hosting providers.

December 22, 2025 - It's working over ipv6 (from what i can tell) and they posted a status page update here: and here: · It's an on going outage. ... It says it is resolved on website. Clearly not. ... I have a cron job that lists servers via their api every 5 minutes over ipv4 - it was throwing err

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