[1] https://blog.digitalocean.com/its-all-about-the-bandwidth-wh...
https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/why-zoom-chose-oracle-clo...
As long as Larry lives and breathes, Oracle gonna Oracle.
Oracle really should remove its logo from the footers of all those collapsing web sites. It's embarrassing.
Or maybe it's palliative care.
Is there a cloud or dedicated server farm with even cheaper outbound bandwidth?
Edit: as much as I hate Oracle, their first 10TB is free, and each GB after that is $0.0085/GB. Better...
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1000GB Data consumption is 10$ (1.000 GB @ $0.01 / GB) but adding a Droplet for 5$ adds 1000GB to you Datapool.
So with adding cheap Droplets you could lower the Bandwith Cost 50%?
But it only gets you so far, its a cost optimization at the low end, but eventually it isn't "worth it".
You are checking your bandwidth use against the pool limit, then spinning up a new VM when you get close to the limit, but then back down the next month so you aren't paying for unneeded bandwidth, paying the extra $5 and not worrying about some custom price hack is a lot easier and less stressful.
- VPC network ranges cannot overlap with the ranges of other networks in the same account. (Edit: Does this mean each VPC in the account has to have a non overlapping subnet?)
-Resources do not currently support multiple private network interfaces and cannot be placed in multiple VPC networks.
- Not being able to change the VPC connected to stuff without taking a snapshot
- You can do this, but it's highly discouraged since it means no VPC peering if you ever need that.
- Can't do this at all with network interfaces, it all is via VPC peering.
- Can't change the VPC after an instance has been created, you have to take a snapshot and relaunch it.
I thought one would have a node two VPC, e.g. app and database, so it can speak to both, but the load balancers can't.
With peering one would have an app VPC and a database VPC and peer them?
Overlapping subnets tend to be a mistake and will bite you in the behind whenever you want to peer them. What'd be your reason to want overlapping subnets in the first place?
Simple pricing, nothing hidden, not the most feature rich ecosystem, but I get no billing surprises.
Source: customer for 3 years.
My main wish at this point is cross data center load balancers.
[0]: https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/databases/redis/#redis-lim...
Corporate prefers paying yearly to paying monthly, and for that reason work uses Linode. (Which is not bad either, IMO)
(Over in AWS land, they wrote a CNI for their own VPC networking. It turns out to have many strange limitations. For example, you can only run 17 pods on a certain type of node, because that node is only allowed to have 19 VPC addresses. I was quite surprised when pods stopped scheduling even though CPU and memory were available. Turns out internal IP addresses are a resource, too. DigitalOcean has the advantage of starting fresh, so might be able to use something open source that can be played with in a dev environment and extended with open source projects.)
The EC2 k8s network driver they wrote essentially will attach/detach extra ENI's on the fly and pre-allocate IP addresses to your EC2 host to allow for fast pod spin up/down.
I found this article pretty helpful to explain some of the AWS differences: https://www.contino.io/insights/kubernetes-is-hard-why-eks-m...
That's not what is happening in AWS. IP address are resources (duh), but that's no the issue. With their CNI plugin each pod gets its own Elastic Network Interface. ENIs aren't just virtio's virtual network, it could be ENA (100Gbps) or Intel VF (10Gbs). It's a hardware limitation of amazon virtualization stack starting with previous generation instances.
> I was quite surprised when pods stopped scheduling even though CPU and memory were available.
This is well documented here: https://github.com/aws/amazon-vpc-cni-k8s
Until you start trying to connect to enterprise networks...
This is seriously ridiculous. It's 2020, and Google and now DO have no IPv6 in their cloud networks.
I was wondering if DO publish some kind of roadmap? I'd really like to know what else they plan on delivering over the next year or so?
VPC support on DigitalOcean was soft-launched almost a month ago:
https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/networking/vpc/quickstart/
https://www.reddit.com/r/digital_ocean/comments/g1hkhu/digit...
The introduction of VPC just means you can isolate within the same account.
They also will automatically enable a private network interface for you if you use their Floating IP feature. This caught me by surprise when I found out the hard way :)
One thing I want to do is setup a VPN tunnel from my home network and lock everything else down. Wasn't possible before but it is now with this.
Given that now “Security and customer trust are at the core of what we do”, it would be nice if they could fix the massive oversight in their Spaces offering where every API key has full access to all spaces/buckets.
I also wish they'd add the feature to turn DO Spaces into a static server, like most other cloud providers.
Could anyone here share some other benefits to using DO? Or any particular Must Have's on a particular cloud provider?
Personal experience with DO: I've been a happy DO customer for the past [7 years](1). Linux VM [uptime](2) record has been amazing for personal use case.
This week I migrate the droplet hosting my personal website (5/m) from DigitalOcean to Amazon Lightsail (3.5/m plan) this week. Trigger being Ubuntu LTS upgrade to 20.04 again failed to boot on first few attempts again (wasted quite sometime chroot trying to fix to no avail without access to the hypervisor - IaaS...), mainly because of the way DO's flavour of KVM (hypervisor) works (I am not the only one), my other VPS (e.g. 123Systems - KVM) worked well and never had the same problem, let alone Xen powered VMs (EC2, self-hosted XenServer, etc. - I know hypervisor well because I've worked for XenSource/Citrix on XenServer for several years).
Customer (technical) support quality has dropped over the last few years, I can tell the difference by comparing the last 2 support tickets, I don't want to guess the root cause, sigh...
Finally I have had enough (4th time down with upgrade), it's time to move on to something better without paying more, migration is made easy due to the way workloads are deployed (most containerized, thanks to Docker/Docker Compose). With Lightsail, in addition to the AWS name/brand, has the advantage to move the Lightsail VMs into AWS EC2 instances so as to leverage full-fledged AWS infra (e.g. VPC, etc.) seamlessly.
Over the years, low end VPS competition has becoming much tougher (DO, Linode, Vultr, Amazon Lightsail late to the game but powerful strike, etc.) DO has lots its key competencies for bang for the buck, without offering 2.5~3.5/m plan on par with competitors.
Last but not least, I'll definitely consider DO as an option when Cloud Infrastructure is need, still ;-)
BTW: On Oracle, my Oracle Cloud free tier trial ended miserably, 2 weeks after provisioning the VMs, Cockpit (I run it on my home NAS - managing/monitoring a small group of cloud VPS using the web UI) reported connection failed, only to find that my account has been terminated without any warning or notification along with my 2 free VMs based in Phoenix, lucky that I didn't actually put any workload on it (left them running only - feeling something's gonna happen...), contacted support and was told account deleted, no reason, redirected me to customer support (my oracle support, I couldn't figure out how that works, so give up...). I still don't understand how Oracle Cloud login works...
Vpc isn’t simple.
