VPS DigitalOcean VPS

[monchu]

Hi,

I'm testing digitalocean vps for pw development and plan to use it for live production. So far the server perfomance is good and their pricing is reasonable as well.

I would like to know any feedback for their services from members here who are experienced using this server?

Thanks

[Sergio]

Go for it. I'm using for a year I think and not a single problem.

Take a look on http://forge.laravel.com/ to handle the setup and admin for you.

[Doug G]

I got a pretty minimal centos7 vps (1gb ram) and installed pw & mediawiki plus my personal git repository, and the whole digital ocean experience has been 100% positive for me.

[Hantsweb]

I have one client currently on a Digital Ocean VPS and their site seems to perform well and with no problems.

[monchu]

Thanks all for the feedback.

I'm using their singapore location and the ftp speed from melbourne is faster compare to my web hosting server in US.

@Sergio, for the laravel service is it once-off fee for setup the server or I have to pay them on monthly fee bases?

[diogo]

@Sergio, for the laravel service is it once-off fee for setup the server or I have to pay them on monthly fee bases?

On their site it says per month. Have also a look at https://serverpilot.io/

[Sergio]

On their site it says per month. Have also a look at https://serverpilot.io/

I use serverpilot for simple sites, it works very well. 

Forge deploy it's better if you want more advanced features like SSL configured, integration with git for automatic deploys etc.

[alxndre]

I've been using DigitalOcean for about 3 years now.

The upsides are:

   - cheap 

   - they charge by the hour, so you can create and destroy droplets all you want (for testing/learning) without incurring large fees.

   - lots of tutorials if you're interested in learning how to do a lot of stuff

   - 99% uptime for real. Never experienced any downtime in 3 years.

   - freedom! Since it's an unmanaged VPS, you get to choose exactly what's in it.

Downsides:

  - fixed plans. You can't customize your VPS specs outside of the preconfigured ones.

  - you have to do everything yourself. If you're new to unmanaged VPS's, it will take a lot of trial and error to get things just right.

All in all, it was a great experience. I highly recommend it specially if you like learning about how to manage your own VPS.

Also, try to look into AjentiV. It's a very cool VPS manager that I promote just because I think it's awesome and it's free, just like Processwire. <3