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Would Digital Ocean consider offering "bare" droplets?

Posted on August 13, 2015

It would be nice to be able to spin-up a bare droplet/VM and drop an otherwise unsupported (eg RHEL or SuSE) OS onto it.

Does DO have this on the roadmap?



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