Vote with your wallet. Yesterday I dumped all my Digital Ocean stuff, closed my account and let them know why.
I appreciate the sentiment, but I think the reality is the number of people who are so upset over this that they switch providers… is a rounding error.
And additionally the vast majority of their money likely comes from large enterprise accounts, who couldn’t give two shits about dhh and omarchy, or who also actively support it, racist / fascist dog whistles and all
Digital Ocean grew because they targeted devs and hackers, and they introduced it into their companies. Same goes here. My personal account may not have been that big, but I also dropped DO from the list of recommend providers at work. They won’t be getting any new business from us. And when contract renewals start rolling around, projects will start moving to other providers.
Hell yeah! Hit em’ with the wam bam, fuck off, man.
Something website administrators could do is, block the DigitalOcean ASN (14061).
Some configuration may be required, it’s easier if you have some kind of WAF (firewall), but seeing that most traffic from their network are bots (92%), them being blocked would hurt their clients and inevitably lower their usage in the long run.
“Bot” there doesn’t necessarily imply a malicious spam/AI bot… legitimate B2B use is also included, which is a much higher percentage than illegitimate traffic. Same for AWS, other cloud providers, and even Cloudflare itself.
Bot traffic describes any non-human Internet traffic
I moved my work’s dev environment after 12 years of giving DO money. Not much but add my middle finger to the pile.
What did you move to? I’m in the same boat.
Depends where you are. Look up local (organic) data centres near you.
Trying out OVHcloud but can’t vouch for it until it’s set up. Good unmanaged option out of Quebec which is near-ish to me.
Canadian servers owned and operated by a French company outside of the CLOUD Act’s reach. Important to me on principle.
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The amount of hail mary’s CSS-Tricks was able to get me through is innumerable.
Literally why though? I just don’t get this.
Supporting racist posts by the main guy.
I never understood why anyone would host on DO, they were always much more expensive then the competitors.
Seriously, most people probably could get by with a free VPS or free shell account.
Never heard of CSS tricks; I tried to investigate in the posted article, but too much emojis.
