On: One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020

[WarOnPrivacy]

As a mailserver owner, spam is the first thing that comes to my mind when someone says digitalocean.

Malicious bots would be 2nd.

I've never learned why DO is a malicious traffic leader. Maybe they're competing with OVH to be the next MCColo.

[easton → WarOnPrivacy]

It’s because they made a rather cheap Linux VPS that is extremely easy to get up. It’s 4 clicks on DO (login with GitHub, click new droplet, click $5, click create), vs 15 clicks on Azure or AWS (where you have to create a bespoke account, go through the silly billing configuration, etc) where they expect you're running all of this past your procurement people and that they’ll want to configure stuff too.

[yowlingcat → WarOnPrivacy]

> Maybe they're competing with OVH to be the next MCColo.

That's my guess. That was the original value prop, right? MCColo with SSDs on every instance.