DigitalOcean
Practical writing on cloud providers, infrastructure, deployment and cost, from the team behind the BuyCloudExpress catalogue.
Droplets or App Platform: picking the right DigitalOcean product
DigitalOcean offers a raw virtual machine and a managed application platform. The choice is really about how much operational work you want to own, and it…
A first production deployment on DigitalOcean, start to finish
The path from an empty account to an application serving real traffic over HTTPS, with the security and backup steps that are easy to skip and…
VPS or managed hosting: an honest comparison
The difference is not power or price. It is which problems become yours, and how many hours a month you are willing to spend on them.
Hardening a fresh cloud server in thirty minutes
A new public IP address starts receiving automated attacks within minutes. These steps, in this order, remove almost all of that risk before anything is exposed.
Load balancers, explained without the diagram
A load balancer does more than spread traffic. Its health checks, connection draining and TLS handling are what turn a deployment from disruptive into invisible.
When Kubernetes is the wrong answer
Kubernetes solves real problems very well. Adopting it before you have those problems trades a small amount of deployment friction for a large amount of permanent…