[timfrietas]

You mean Vultr is pretty similar to DO :)

When I worked at DigitalOcean all we could do was shake our head and laugh at how blatantly hard Vultr tried to copy what we did.

[tyingq]

You could argue that DO copied Linode.

An interesting thread on the Linode forum when DO launched: https://www.linode.com/community/questions/8303/new-linode-c...

[djsumdog]

Yes, that's what I meant. :) DO did come first and Vultr pretty much copied everything with lower prices; but DO has matched a lot of those prices since then as well.

[brobinson]

They've been better than DO for many years (since at least 2015) on pricing, performance, and locations.

[daxorid]

Yes, but one thing Vultr didn't copy from DO is their disgusting and virulent anti-free speech position. The result is a superior product.

Today, Vultr offers similar service, at a lower price point, without the risk that your entire account will be suspended for thinking unapproved thoughts. This is a pretty good selling point to anyone who isn't an apparatchik of modern political and social dogma.

[djsumdog]

I forgot DigitalOcean was one of the players when all this shit went down:

https://battlepenguin.com/politics/the-new-era-of-corporate-...

[danaris]

I'd call that a significant selling point for DO—not being willing to do business with literal Nazis.

Free speech maximalism as a cover for raging racism (and sexism, and homophobia, etc) is what's disgusting.