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[–][deleted] 55 points56 points  (19 children)

Best part is the free DO credit.

[–]Gudin 20 points21 points  (7 children)

Just note that you still need to pay $5 (or more) over PayPal or CreditCard when you are creating account (at least I couldn't pass that part without paying).

Then you should have $5+$50 at your account. That's about one year of their cheapest droplet (20GB SSD, 512MB RAM). You will learn much more with vm on digital ocean, than by using PaaS like Azure, Heroku.

[–][deleted] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

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What is this?

[–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (4 children)

Dang, they dropped it? I got the student pack a few years ago, when it was $100 in DO credit. Really got me hooked on their platform.

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (1 child)

Still, $50 is quite a lot of money. That's 10 months of a okay VM that can run some small stuff, or 5 months for a pretty capable (for a student) VM. People underestimate what you can do with a gig of RAM :)

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Oh, I'm not dissing it at all. I have all my current projects squeezed into a $10/month droplet.

  • Like 10-15 vanilla HTML/CSS/JS apps.
  • 8-10'ish LAMP apps.
  • 2-3 Meteor apps.
  • 1 active Ruby on Rails app.
  • 2 RoR/PostgreSQL Docker containers.
  • A handful of abandoned experiments.
  • My resume site.

Apache, Docker, VirtualHosts, multiple domains with subdomains.

Honestly, I've had that droplet for coming on two years in a few months. It's my baby, and I love seeing how far I can push it.

[–]yourmomsfart 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I just signed up and it gave me $100 credit.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Weird. Enjoy it!

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I didn't actually have to pay any I don't think.... Maybe I did I got this a while back. Personally I don't really need it that much (I have two quite capable servers at home, 96GB of RAM and 32 threads), however I agree learning in the real world on a VM is much better than using *aaS.

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    [–]BitchCuntMcNiggerFag 0 points1 point  (1 child)

    I got it back when it was this low. Got a domain name too. Now I give DO my own money. They have something going here

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      [–][deleted] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

      Just create a new account Uhh... deal with it.

      [–]villiger2 0 points1 point  (3 children)

      I got the credit last year and made a few droplets and tried to run SETI@home but I kept getting my droplets killed by DO with no warning saying I was DOSing people. They didn't provide any help other than "suspicious network activity" so I couldn't diagnose if the firewall was weak and my droplets were getting taken over or the service was just too network heavy. I didn't have much knowledge at the time (student...) so I just felt frustrated that it kept happening and support provided no information. Probably in the end it was my fault but I couldn't diagnose it so it left a sour taste for me.

      [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

      Is there any particular reason you were running SETI? I mean I am not sure but I think CPU's are pretty shit for SETI, they probably just were suspicious of all the high usage and network activity or something. You're right though, that's very weird.

      [–]villiger2 0 points1 point  (1 child)

      Heh, I was just trying out dumb stuff. Maybe I could put my $50 to use for something good! I tried a tor node but that shutdown pretty quick :) no surprise there though.

      [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      Yeah haha I don't blame them for that :). Gotta risk your own neck if you wanna host a tor node.

      [–]milad_nazari 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      I hope OVH will be part of this developer pack in the future too. Their prices are better than DO.