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When we completed our first Hacktoberfest in 2014, we had 768 participants, and happily sent out T-shirts across the globe. We were eager to see what 2015 would bring, but we could never have expected the huge response we received this year! This year, we partnered with GitHub to lay…
I'm Jess, Director of Employee Experience, and I designed DigitalOcean's office. Before the contractors could start construction, and before our architect RA-DA could draw up blueprints, we needed architectural requirements. My hope was to design a space where we could do our best work. When employees are comfortable at the…
Last month, we proudly launched our 11th datacenter in Toronto, Canada. Building new datacenters is becoming a pretty common occurrence for us; we launched three last year, two this year, and there are plenty more coming in the near future. This means that building a DC has become a repeatable…
High Availability is key to any production environment. It grants developers peace of mind knowing their application is architected to withstand failure scenarios. Today, we are excited to announce Floating IPs. A Floating IP is an IP address that can be instantly moved from one Droplet to another Droplet in…
We're excited to announce the start of the second annual Hacktoberfest, a month-long celebration of open source software! This year, GitHub joins us as a partner in our quest to give you a cool shirt for your open source contributions. For this year's Hacktoberfest, we encourage everyone to contribute to…
