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Modern machines is my guess. Many other cloud providers and hosting companies are running machines from a few years ago. I don't believe the price has stayed competitive to the power, so DO is effectively arbitraging the price difference between 2010 machines and 2013 machines. That and their API makes it really easy to spin up more machines than you need, leading to some dead weight that doesn't harm your neighbors.

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This doesn't sound sustainable. Four years from now, DigitalOcean will have a mix of machines just like the other hosting providers.

(Google Compute Engine is in the same position because right now they only run on Sandy Bridge.)

DigitalOcean is my fourth host in four years. I just spent two years with a company inexplicably named Reliable Hosting Services before I switched. Switching hosting providers is surprisingly easy, since I just replicate out my DBs and then eventually switch the primaries over to the new host.

My gut tells me that DigitalOcean has at least a couple years until I have to even think about comparing to other hosts again.

We're happy to have you on board! =]

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