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Using DigitalOcean for big web sites

Posted on June 13, 2013

Hello,

I’ve read at several places that DigitalOcean is intended for developers.

Are there any limitations that could prevent it from being used for large companies’ web sites/web stores ?

Is Digital Ocean less reliable than other hosting companies ? Are there more risks to loose everything with Digital Ocean ? I’ve read that DO can easily suspend droplets in some case (DDoS attacks) without any notice…

Thanks



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You can use DDoS protection from BuyVM, it’s very cheap DDoS protection…

@Spencer: we host a lot of high-traffic websites - this shouldn’t be a problem at all! :]

you need a hardware firewall at the end of the day. No exceptions to that rule…

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