The flexibility of the cloud is awesome but sometimes it does get cloudy up there. Redundancy is a must with digitalocean, aws, or anyone else.
The flexibility of the cloud is awesome but sometimes it does get cloudy up there. Redundancy is a must with digitalocean, aws, or anyone else.
My point was more that the frequency at which I and others are having DO issues seems to be higher than AWS recently (I can't independently verify it until I've used AWS myself) and truth be told it's a subjective/opinionated statement. I do remember a time when AWS was extremely flaky when they first started, so I'd like to think it's merely growing pains for DO, but at the same time ... I have my own growing pains to worry about.
I'm currently using round-robin DNS for load-distribution as the simplest thing that could possibly work, but it obviously doesn't actually balance load and it doesn't remove dead servers from the pool. What's the next step up that doesn't cost and arm and a leg to implement?