[mavdi]

Hi everyone,

We've gone through a lot of pain to get this blueprint working since our AWS costs were getting out of hand but we didn't want to part ways with CDK.

We've now got the same stack structure going with Pulumi and Digital ocean, having the same ease of development with at least 60% cost reduction.

[vundercind]

Keep an eye on reachability and performance. I’ve seen DO consistently perform terribly and/or drop connections for months (that is, didn’t look like some brief routing glitch somewhere) for some US and Canadian routes (not, like, Sri Lanka or something) on excellent Internet connections. The fix was moving to AWS, problem gone. It felt like a shitty-peering-agreements issue.

[nostrebored]

People will pretend that this quality difference doesn’t exist in networking, uptime, server quality.

It’s not a drop in replacement. It might be worth it depending on what you’re doing.

[data_marsupial]

How do you monitor the connection quality?

[skywhopper]

Please change the title text unless you add some discussion of the cost differences to the page you linked. However useful your tool is, nothing on this page mentions AWS or costs.