We don't think anyone should be served with an unexpected bill. Users can now opt-in to receive an email alert if their monthly spend exceeds an amount that they define. This feature was inspired by a Hacker News user who commented on a thread saying, "Amazon should let us know…
Important Note: As of January 2018, a newer version of this tutorial has been published on our Community site called "Transferring a DigitalOcean Snapshot to a Different User or Team". Please refer to the linked tutorial for the most up-to-date instructions on transferring DigitalOcean snapshots. Under the images tab in…
We think Go is awesome! A year ago we started looking into Go as a potential language to standardize our backend around. Since then we've been looking for every excuse to rewrite some of our services in Go. The first publicly visible service we've rewritten is our new web console.…
The new Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 'Trusty Tahr' server is now available to spin up on DigitalOcean. Their latest Long Term Support release integrates the best of new open source technologies into an excellent and simple-to-use Linux distro. The team over at Ubuntu has been introducing new features and bug…
We'll be sponsoring this year's ChefConf in San Francisco, CA and look forward to participating in the Chef community and meeting engineers. The conference will be filled with keynotes from leaders in DevOps, technical workshops, and other goodies – you can check the event schedule here. Over at DigitalOcean, we currently…
