working on a @styx-os.
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"accidentally-vengeful telco nerd"
—Tom Scott
platform sec researcher, OS dev, systems architect, composer; Other (please specify). vintage computer/electronics nut.
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and the @staff posts leading up to it - I wonder if DigitalOcean might've thrown the game. regardless, it is really really bad timing - right after a couple blogs about unrelated image problems, the whole upload pipeline gets bungled on DO, forcing an overnight full-CDN migration?
like, did they read the blog and decide "oh now's an optimal time to wreck it any%"
oh and also thank you @staff for the website and the hard work keeping it going. <3
like, it's easy to be cynical, but thinking from a capital profit motive (the only motive these companies have), what does DigitalOcean gain from going "nyeh heh heh", rubbing its grabby little hands together, and trying to kill off cohost?
Is it the "host" in the name? did they completely confuse this site for a new competitor ripe to be quashed?
Do they politically disagree with the cooperative/anticapitalist spin here?
Is it just a genuine "whoopsie!" moment on DO's part, but they just decided "well they're not a priority, 72 hours is an acceptable turnaround for a disabling backend outage, they don't have even a nine fives SLA signed with us"?
could it be that they were doing their best to remedy it, and they're just an all-around crappy host and couldn't resolve it despite their best efforts?
(ed. note: even this, too, involves runaway capitalism. maybe that DigitalOcean CEO's second (hypothetical) yacht could've been better wages and/or more employees on those wages.)
I've definitely heard "DO sucks" grumblings around the internet. We use them at work and it's been fine for us but we're small-time with like idk several k impressions/month or something like that so we're just a drop in the bucket
Working for a host, I hear the "DO sucks" thing a lot from new and returning customers. I've been told they regularly refuse to take responsibility for their own uptime issues, but this is all anecdotal.
👈 ayyyyyy