DigitalOcean App Platform

Tried this out in early access and wanted to love and use it however a few things that made it not workable:

* wildcard subdomains aren't supported.

* Only CNAMEs to digital ocean's CDN are supported (can't have an A record).

* There was no way to run a console command.

* Bandwidth is 12x higher than usual droplets and unlike standard droplets there isn't an included bandwidth pool.

The bandwidth piece is interesting. I guess if you really have a need for bandwidth just use their K8s offering which is free and you just pay for droplets (with much more bandwidth)/networking. It will require more setup, but you will end up with higher bandwidth.

Thanks for the feedback! I will be sure to address your points with the team as we continue to develop our roadmap. One thing to point out is that there is now console access available in the product.

> * There was no way to run a console command.

There is a console now, was added a few weeks ago.

"Just use k8s" isn't a solution as k8s is a complex beast.

Agreed, but they provide the management of the infrastructure. You will need to setup the services/pods, but it does then give you droplets with higher bandwidth if that is your need.

> Bandwidth is 12x higher than usual droplets and unlike standard droplets there isn't an included bandwidth pool

I'm particularly disappointed to hear this. Digital Ocean likes to say they have simple and predicable pricing, they even say so in TFA - charging high prices for bandwidth is surely the most despised practice of the big 3 cloud providers. I don't expect this from DP. I'm not angry, I'm just disappointed...