this is what happens when you use linux
Linux cloud world's best kept secret DigitalOcean just bagged $37m
Cut-price virtual-server hosting biz DigitalOcean has banked a whopping $37.2m from Andreessen Horowitz and other valley investors. The mammoth series-A funding round was announced on Thursday and will give the 50-person company the funds it needs to aggressively hire talented developers and expand globally, while keeping its …
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Saturday 8th March 2014 06:17 GMT Christian Berger
Well it's cheap, but not mind-blowingly cheap
5 bucks for a virtual server, apparently with no Internet connectivity (the article states that they are still working on IP connectivity) has to be seen in comparison to those usual 8 Euro offers found by many companies... which include IP connectivity _and_ phone support.
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Monday 10th March 2014 01:08 GMT Bill Stewart
Re: Well it's cheap, but not mind-blowingly cheap
What do you mean by "no Internet connectivity"? The pricing says you get 1TB of transfer a month. The description of the applications look like you're connecting over the Internet. Do you mean that you don't get a static IP address, or that you don't get IPv6, or that you only get IPv6, not IPv4, or don't get a DNS name for free, or what?
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