[ycombasks]

I wish they could address these issues: http://www.redbottledesign.com/blog/five-reasons-why-you-sho...

I think "There's no way to increase storage space without major down-time" is the most important one. One hour of downtime is no good for production.

[rschmitty]

For #2 vote for this https://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digitalocea...

and

https://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digitalocea...

I don't think the time behind the scenes will ever be zero so I'd rather 100% be guaranteed not to lose my IP address. Spin up a new VM and assign prod-new the IP of prod-old similar to how you might do it with AWS Elastic IP

[btgeekboy]

For what it's worth, #4 is a moot point: DO has said that they're not currently billing for bandwidth overages.[1]

[1] https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/where-can-i... (Kamal Nasser February 13, 2014)

[coreymgilmore]

I do agree with this. Adding storage to an existing droplet would be nice. Even if it required adding a separate "disk", this would be useful. But obviously, adding, for example, 20GB disk after disk after disk could lead to a lot of annoyance.

[mobiplayer]

You don't care much about downtime if you're using only one droplet for your app in production, do you?

[ycombasks]

What if you start out small with one server, but then need to expand to multiple droplets? You won't be able to without powering off and making an image.