Vote with your wallet. Yesterday I dumped all my Digital Ocean stuff, closed my account and let them know why.
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I moved my work’s dev environment after 12 years of giving DO money. Not much but add my middle finger to the pile.
What did you move to? I'm in the same boat.
Depends where you are. Look up local (organic) data centres near you.
Trying out OVHcloud but can’t vouch for it until it’s set up. Good unmanaged option out of Quebec which is near-ish to me.
Canadian servers owned and operated by a French company outside of the CLOUD Act’s reach. Important to me on principle.
The amount of hail mary's CSS-Tricks was able to get me through is innumerable.
I never understood why anyone would host on DO, they were always much more expensive then the competitors.
Seriously, most people probably could get by with a free VPS or free shell account.
Never heard of CSS tricks; I tried to investigate in the posted article, but too much emojis.
Where are these free vps
Just put "free vps" or "free shell account" into a good search engine. For example: https://freeshell.de/services/
Or this is almost free (0.1 $ / month): https://tierhive.com/
Literally why though? I just don't get this.
Because the guy that owns DigitalOcean is a cunt.
who is also friends with DHH which is what the majority of these "donors" are. they're just his friends who just so happen to own these dumb tech companies.
Ah yea, I remember what it was like to see all those "we stand with Ukraine banners," and the weird ones about antisemitism, but almost never the anti-apartheid and anti-genocide ones against actual Nazis. Yet here is another Ed Sheeran supposedly fighting the Nazis by being silent against the Nazis. Wonder what else you'll find about him.
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