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646 points digianarchist | 3 comments | 06 Oct 20 14:59 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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_kyran ◴[06 Oct 20 15:09 UTC] No.24698454[source]▶
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.

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1. quaffapint ◴[06 Oct 20 15:13 UTC] No.24698518[source]▶
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.
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2. dkersten ◴[06 Oct 20 16:05 UTC] No.24699216[source]▶
"Just use k8s" isn't a solution as k8s is a complex beast.
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3. quaffapint ◴[06 Oct 20 16:09 UTC] No.24699264[source]▶
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.