Good news! Starting today, Spaces object storage is now available from the west coast, in the SFO2 data center. Why object storage? The first step in creating scalable web architecture is to move static assets off your web servers. Object storage gives you that independent place to store your images,…
We're past the middle of the year and I want to provide everyone in our community with an update on progress and upcoming plans. We outlined a series of initiatives in January and have made significant progress on those. I'm also going to share what we're planning for the next…
At the beginning of the year, we published our plans for 2018, and committed to continuously improving your developer experience using DigitalOcean. We included an open call for developers willing to provide feedback on new features focused on making it simpler for you to manage all the infrastructure needed to…
At DigitalOcean we love to make things easier for developers. You want to spend your time learning valuable new skills, building software, and scaling up your applications—not managing your infrastructure. With that in mind, we’ve made improvements to the following over the past two months to the DigitalOcean…
Since we launched Block Storage Volumes in 2016, we noticed users searching for our tutorials on partitioning and formatting storage devices and volumes in Linux. At the same time, some users were accidentally formatting already pre-formatted volumes due to the manual process involved in setting up. This was a cue…
