DigitalOcean Updates

[Sushubh]

Introducing Object Storage | DigitalOcean

The simplest way to cost effectively store, serve, backup, and archive a virtually infinite amount of media, web content, images, and static files for your web applications.

 

[Sushubh]

Introducing Updates for Load Balancers

In February 2017, we launched Load Balancers, our highly available and managed load balancing service. Thousands of users rely on them to distribute traffic across Web and application servers.

Today, we’re announcing significant upgrades to Load Balancers, including Let's Encrypt integration and HTTP/2 support. All users now have access to these features at no additional cost and with no action required. In fact, all existing Load Balancers already have been upgraded.

 

[Sushubh]

Introducing DigitalOcean App Platform

Helping millions of developers easily build, test, manage, and scale applications of any size - faster than ever before.

www.digitalocean.com

 

[Sushubh]

Premium AMD Droplets are now available in six additional datacenters

Earlier this year, we introduced Premium Droplets to support the growing needs of businesses with faster performance and the flexibility to choose underlying hardware for their workloads. We’re thrilled to announce that Premium AMD Droplets are now available in NYC1, SGP1, AMS3, BLR1, LON1, and TOR1. With this release, we now support both Premium Intel and AMD Droplets in all our regions.

 

[shashankb]

DigitalOcean says customer billing data accessed in data breach | TechCrunch

The data breach happened between April 9-22.

techcrunch.com

Another Day Another Breach

 

[Sushubh]

Introducing Google Pay Support | DigitalOcean

Developers can now use Google Pay to create a DigitalOcean account or to set up recurring payments.

www.digitalocean.com

 

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[Sushubh]

I don't see Google Pay in my backend. I do meet their requirement. Not sure if the RBI nonsense is blocking credit card payments through Gpay on DO. Anyone here with DO account check and confirm if they can see Gpay at their end.

 

[Sushubh]

Impact to DigitalOcean customers resulting from Mailchimp security incident

Today, we wanted to share an update about how DigitalOcean and our customers were impacted by a recent security incident disclosed by Mailchimp.

www.digitalocean.com

 

[Sushubh]

We've listened to your feedback and are excited to let you know that we're bringing DigitalOcean Spaces even closer to you by adding it to our Bangalore datacenter, BLR1, in the third quarter (Q3) of 2023.

Spaces BLR1 Interest Capture

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[Sushubh]

DigitalOcean Spaces Object Storage is now available in the Bangalore (BLR1) data center!

At DigitalOcean, we’re committed to making cloud computing simpler and more affordable while addressing the ever-increasing storage needs of businesses and startups. Today, we're excited to let you know that DigitalOcean Spaces Object Storage, our simple standalone object storage service, is now available in the Bangalore (BLR1) data center.

You can use Spaces to store and retrieve all your unstructured data at scale and provide excellent customer experiences while reducing bandwidth and infrastructure costs. Like all Spaces data centers, Spaces in BLR1 also includes our built-in Content Delivery Network (CDN) which you can use to deliver your assets to the edge at faster speeds. Get started today by creating a Spaces instance in the DigitalOcean control panel, and select the Bangalore (BLR1) data center to unlock lightning-fast speeds for your unstructured data in India.

Introducing Spaces Object Storage in Bangalore, India

Store unstructured data at scale in DigitalOcean's Bangalore data center

www.digitalocean.com

 

[Sushubh]

We have exciting news! Premium CPU-Optimized Droplets, virtual machines built for high network throughput and superior performance, are now available to deploy from our Bangalore datacenter, BLR1. Powered by some of the latest generations of Intel® Xeon® processors, these Droplets feature up to 10Gbps outbound data speeds, superfast NVMe storage, and dedicated vCPUs. These full-featured virtual machines also come with generous storage and bandwidth allowances out of the box.

 

[Navjot Singh]

DigitalOcean bought two companies - Cloud backup Snapshooter in January this year and Cloud Control panel Cloudways in August last year. And then raised prices for both services. Also, removed Vultr and Linode as hosting options from Cloudways.

To kick freelancers, they shut down their write for DO program. They also bought CSS-Tricks in March 2022 and closed its writing program as well. Both these programs used to offer freelancers $300-600 easy per tutorial.

And if that's not enough, they fired a lot of staff citing not enough profits (which was false) during 2022-2023. They also shut down their community Tutorials program which used to be the best in business - because everyone on that team has been fired.

Everyone is taking inspiration from Musk on how to be the most hated CEO. DO's CEO took the post in 2019 so it all figures.

 

[Navjot Singh]

Introducing Scalable Storage for PostgreSQL and MySQL Managed Databases

Meet DigitalOcean’s new Scalable Storage for PostgreSQL and MySQL—your straightforward solution to effortlessly scale database storage.

www.digitalocean.com

 

[Sushubh]

Introducing the next evolution of DigitalOcean Backups

Powerful enhancements to DigitalOcean Backups now include daily Droplet backups, faster backup times and configurable backup windows. Maximize data protection for your critical workloads by setting up daily backups for your Droplets.

www.digitalocean.com

this is nice to have. pricing is 30% of the droplet costs.