{"id":2571,"date":"2015-04-21T22:41:53","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T02:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/?p=2571"},"modified":"2015-04-21T22:41:53","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T02:41:53","slug":"why-do-i-use-digital-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=2571","title":{"rendered":"why do i use digital ocean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Besides the fact that I have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalocean.com\/?refcode=d197a961987a\">referral<\/a> code, I think Digital Ocean has done a great job of making an accessible, affordable, cloud environment for folks (like me) to spin-up and -down servers for <a href=\"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/2014\/04\/22\/setting-up-an-unreal-irc-server-on-centos-6\/#.VTj6MK1VhBc\">trying<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/2014\/05\/08\/setting-up-etherpad-in-centos-6\/#.VTj6L61VhBc\">new<\/a> things out.<\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t beat an average of 55 seconds to get a new server.<\/p>\n<p>There are other great hosting options out there. I know folks who work at and\/or use Rackspace. And {{AWS}}. Or <a href=\"https:\/\/chunkhost.com\/r\/wmadg\">Chunk Host<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They all have their time and place, but for me, DO has been the best option for much of what I want to do.<\/p>\n<p>Their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalocean.com\/features\/api\">API<\/a> is simple and easily-accessed, billing is straight-forward, and you can make your own templates to deploy servers from. For example, I could make a template for <a href=\"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/2015\/04\/21\/create-your-own-clustered-cloud-storage-system-with-moosefs-and-pydio\/#.VTVyh61VhBc\">MooseFS Chunk servers<\/a>\u00a0so I could just add new ones whenever I need them to the cluster.<\/p>\n<p>And I can expand\/contract servers as needed, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Besides the fact that I have a referral code, I think Digital Ocean has done a great job of making an accessible, affordable, cloud environment for folks (like me) to spin-up and -down servers for trying new things out. You can&#8217;t beat an average of 55 seconds to get a new server. There are other &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=2571\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">why do i use digital ocean?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31,41],"tags":[178,387],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-2571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-technical","tag-cloud","tag-hosting"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2571"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=2571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}