{"componentChunkName":"component---src-templates-tag-jsx","path":"/blog/tag/community/9/","result":{"data":{"prismic":{"allFeaturedblogs":{"edges":[{"node":{"featured_blogs_enabled":true,"heading":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"Featured posts","spans":[]}],"featured_blog_1":{"__typename":"PRISMIC_Blog","_linkType":"Link.document","blog_header_image":{"dimensions":{"width":790,"height":395},"alt":null,"copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/6d8d81b1-971a-4313-b033-b4e125cb14a0_MondoDB-blog-header-790x395.PNG?auto=compress,format"},"blog_headline":[{"type":"heading1","text":"Introducing DigitalOcean Managed MongoDB – a fully managed, database as a service for modern apps","spans":[]}],"blog_post_date":"2021-06-29","blog_post_content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"MongoDB is one of the most popular databases, and it’s ideal for apps that evolve rapidly and need to handle huge volumes of data and traffic. It offers advantages like flexible document schemas, code-native data access, change-friendly design, and easy horizontal scale-out.","spans":[{"start":22,"end":44,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://db-engines.com/en/ranking","target":"_blank"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"However, building and maintaining MongoDB clusters from the ground up can be a huge undertaking. Developers often complain that they have to spend their valuable time and resources on database management. Well, we’ve been listening and have some great news: accessing and managing MongoDB on DigitalOcean just got a lot simpler!","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We are excited to announce that DigitalOcean Managed MongoDB is now in General Availability. Managed MongoDB is a fully managed, database as a service (DBaaS) offering from DigitalOcean, built in partnership with and certified by MongoDB Inc. It provides you all the technical capabilities that make MongoDB so beloved in the developer community. Together we have ensured that you will get access to all the latest releases of the MongoDB document database as they become available.","spans":[{"start":32,"end":91,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/products/managed-databases-mongodb/"}},{"start":230,"end":241,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.mongodb.com/","target":"_blank"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Managed MongoDB simplifies the MongoDB administration. Developers of all skill levels, even those who do not have prior experience in databases, can spin up MongoDB clusters in just a few minutes. We handle the provisioning, managing, scaling, updates, backups, and security of your MongoDB clusters, allowing you to offload the complex, time consuming –yet critical – database administration tasks to us. This empowers you to focus on what really matters: building awesome apps.","spans":[]},{"type":"embed","oembed":{"height":113,"width":200,"embed_url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvHQSV7jnKA","type":"video","version":"1.0","title":"Create a MongoDB Database on DigitalOcean","author_name":"DigitalOcean","author_url":"https://www.youtube.com/c/Digitalocean","provider_name":"YouTube","provider_url":"https://www.youtube.com/","cache_age":null,"thumbnail_url":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/NvHQSV7jnKA/hqdefault.jpg","thumbnail_width":480,"thumbnail_height":360,"html":""}},{"type":"heading2","text":"Benefits of Managed MongoDB","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Easy set up and maintenance: We create the database clusters for you. Simply choose the cluster configuration (e.g., memory, disk size, number of nodes, etc.), and the data center in which you want to host the database. Follow a few simple steps and your database cluster will be up and running in a matter of minutes. You can spin up clusters using the cloud control panel, CLI, or API.\n\n","spans":[{"start":0,"end":28,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Automatic daily backups with point in time recovery: Data is one of the most important assets of an app, so it’s critical to backup your database. We take backups of your entire clusters automatically on a daily basis, for free. We also provide a point in time recovery for 7 days, that way if things go wrong due to human error, machine error, or some combination of both, you can easily restore the database as it was at any point in the previous 7 days. \n\n","spans":[{"start":0,"end":52,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Automatic updates and access to latest MongoDB releases: You get access to MongoDB 4.4. This is the latest release of MongoDB and comes packed with numerous enhancements like hedged reads, rust, and swift drivers. Since we have developed Managed MongoDB in partnership with MongoDB Inc, you will always get access to new releases as they become available. With Managed MongoDB, the updates happen automatically. Just select a date and time for the updates and we take care of the rest. This makes it easy to stay up to date with MongoDB releases without disrupting your business.\n\n","spans":[{"start":0,"end":56,"type":"strong"},{"start":148,"end":169,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.mongodb.com/new","target":"_blank"}}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"High availability with automated failover: If your database goes down, it can take down the entire app, leading to bad customer experiences. With Managed MongoDB, you can easily minimize the downtime for your database and make it highly available with standby nodes. Standby nodes add redundancy, so if for example the primary node fails, the standby node is immediately promoted to primary and begins serving requests while we provision a replacement standby node in the background.\n\n","spans":[{"start":0,"end":42,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Scale up easily to handle traffic spikes: As your app gains traction and the usage grows, it’s important to have a database that can keep up with the increased demand. With Managed MongoDB, you can easily scale up the size of database nodes when needed.\n\n","spans":[{"start":0,"end":41,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Secure by default: Since data is critical, it also needs to be secure. We encrypt data at rest with LUKS and in transit with SSL. When you create a new cluster, it’s placed in a VPC network by default that provides a more secure connection between resources. You can also restrict access to your nodes to prevent brute-force password and denial-of-service attacks.","spans":[{"start":0,"end":18,"type":"strong"},{"start":178,"end":189,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/networking/vpc/"}}]},{"type":"heading2","text":"The need for Managed Databases","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"DigitalOcean’s mission is to simplify cloud computing so developers, startups, and SMBs can spend more time building software that changes the world. While databases are a critical component to any application, building, maintaining, and scaling them can be complex and time consuming. For developers that are building apps for their business, database administration is often not a core focus area. But it’s quite common to find developers that write the code and then also roll up their sleeves to maintain databases. Such users would rather offload the tedious database administration and focus their limited time and energy on building and enhancing their apps. ","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"With this in mind, we introduced Managed Databases a couple of years ago and are excited to add Managed MongoDB to our portfolio. With this release, DigitalOcean Managed Databases now supports the following engines:","spans":[{"start":33,"end":50,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/products/managed-databases/"}}]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/87745cc1-1c5f-4463-b104-104b7fc30dc7_managed-databases-logos.png?auto=compress,format","alt":null,"copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":849,"height":104}},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Managed MongoDB launch comes on the heels of DigitalOcean App Platform, a modern, reimagined PaaS (Platform as a Service) that we released a few months ago. App Platform makes it very easy to build, deploy, and scale apps and static sites. You can deploy code by simply pointing to your GitHub and GitLab repos, and App Platform will do all the heavy lifting of managing infrastructure, app runtimes, and dependencies. App Platform, along with Managed Databases, helps fulfill DigitalOcean’s mission by empowering developers, startups, and SMBs to focus more on their apps, and less on the underlying infrastructure and databases.","spans":[{"start":45,"end":70,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform/"}}]},{"type":"heading2","text":"How Managed MongoDB works","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"DigitalOcean provides you with various compute options to build your apps like:","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Droplets: On-demand, Linux virtual machines suitable for production business applications and personal passion projects.","spans":[{"start":0,"end":8,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/products/droplets/"}}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"DigitalOcean Kubernetes: Managed Kubernetes with automatic scaling, upgrades, and a free control plane.","spans":[{"start":0,"end":23,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/products/kubernetes/"}}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"DigitalOcean App Platform: A fully managed Platform as a Service.","spans":[{"start":0,"end":25,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"No matter which compute option you choose to build your apps, you can easily add Managed MongoDB to it. In addition to this, Managed MongoDB also integrates with the Node.js 1-Click App from DigitalOcean Marketplace making it a lot easier to build Node.js apps.","spans":[{"start":166,"end":215,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/apps/nodejs"}}]},{"type":"heading2","text":"Simple, predictable pricing","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Just like all DigitalOcean products, Managed MongoDB provides simple, predictable pricing that allows you to control costs and prevent any surprise bills. You can spin up a database cluster for just $15/month, or a highly available three-node replica set for $45/month. Click here for more information.","spans":[{"start":270,"end":301,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/#managed-databases"}}]},{"type":"heading2","text":"Regional availability","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Managed MongoDB is currently available in the following regions:","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"NYC3 (New York, USA)","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"FRA1 (Frankfurt, Germany)","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"AMS3 (Amsterdam, Netherlands)","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We will be making Managed Mongo available in other regions soon. Please check out the release notes for most up to date information on regional availability.","spans":[{"start":86,"end":99,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/release-notes/"}}]},{"type":"heading2","text":"Join us at deploy, DigitalOcean’s virtual user conference","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Today we have deploy, DigitalOcean’s signature user conference, which focuses on celebrating, educating, and connecting awesome builders from all over the world.","spans":[{"start":14,"end":20,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://deploy.digitalocean.com/home"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Check out the keynote session from DigitalOcean's CEO, Yancey Spruill, in which he talks about where we're headed as a company and shares some exciting product updates. His keynote will be followed by sessions from community members, engineers, customers, and other experts that are building technologies and businesses powered by the cloud. With live Q&A and an active Discord server, there’s ample opportunity to engage and learn something new. Click here to attend the deploy conference.","spans":[{"start":14,"end":69,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://deploy.digitalocean.com/agenda/session/552806"}},{"start":347,"end":384,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"http://do.co/deploy-discord"}},{"start":461,"end":489,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"http://do.co/deploy"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We are also launching a hackathon for DigitalOcean Managed MongoDB. Learn how you can participate, submit an app and get a t-shirt.","spans":[{"start":24,"end":66,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/mongodb-hackathon"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We hope you will give Managed MongoDB a try. Here are some sample datasets and sample apps that you can use to kick the tires. Check out the docs and let us know what you think!","spans":[{"start":22,"end":43,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://cloud.digitalocean.com/databases/new?engine=mongodb"}},{"start":59,"end":90,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://github.com/do-community/mongodb-resources","target":"_blank"}},{"start":141,"end":145,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/mongodb/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"If you’d like to have a conversation about using DigitalOcean and Managed MongoDB in your business, please feel free to contact our sales team.","spans":[{"start":120,"end":142,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/company/contact/sales/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Happy coding!","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"André Bearfield","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Director of Product Management","spans":[]}],"tags":[{"tag1":{"__typename":"PRISMIC_Tag","tag":"Product Updates","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"product-updates"}}}],"author":{"__typename":"PRISMIC_Author","author_name":"André Bearfield","author_image":{"dimensions":{"width":553,"height":547},"alt":"André Bearfield","copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/fdc7c85186f0a850b04083e1d4306bd1c19772e8_andre-bearfield.png?auto=compress,format"},"_meta":{"uid":"andre-bearfield"}},"_meta":{"uid":"introducing-digitalocean-managed-mongodb"}},"featured_blog_2":{"__typename":"PRISMIC_Blog","_linkType":"Link.document","blog_header_image":{"dimensions":{"width":790,"height":400},"alt":"Droplet Console","copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/710499ae-78cc-4179-afc1-15793637b200_DODX3727-790x400-logo-2.jpg?auto=compress,format"},"blog_headline":[{"type":"heading1","text":"Securely connect to Droplets with SSH key pairs using a new Droplet Console","spans":[]}],"blog_post_date":"2021-08-10","blog_post_content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"The famous author Ken Blanchard once said, “Feedback is the breakfast of champions.\" This is something we truly believe at DigitalOcean, and we always strive to enhance our products based on customer feedback.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"With this goal in mind, we are excited to introduce a new Droplet Console that will make it much easier to connect to your Droplets securely. 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At a high level, SSH works by creating cryptographic key pairs consisting of a public and private key, which are computer generated and stored separately to ensure their security. ","spans":[{"start":80,"end":117,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://cybernews.com/best-password-managers/most-common-passwords/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"SSH has become the default encryption protocol for many industries, but it was difficult to use SSH keys with DigitalOcean’s current Recovery (VNC) console, which is why we developed our new Droplet Console. The new Droplet Console is backed by an agent that security supervises the key pair, while also providing one-click SSH access to our users. You can see the full list of features below.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading2","text":"The new Droplet Console: More time saving, less time wasting ","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The new Droplet Console is for everyone who is looking to build fast, secure apps and avoid hassles with SSH access & usability issues.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"In addition to easier SSH access, the new Droplet Console comes with:","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Copy/paste text: Instead of typing lengthy key pairs and text manually, you can use copy/paste to save time. ","spans":[{"start":0,"end":17,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Multi-color support: Multi-color support makes the console more useful and intuitive, and breaks the conventional standard appearance which is black text on a white background. ","spans":[{"start":0,"end":41,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Multi-language support: DigitalOcean’s new Droplet Console supports multiple languages, meaning you can now type and view any content in any language that is supported by UTF-8","spans":[{"start":0,"end":24,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"OS/images supported: Linux distributions (Ubuntu(16.04 - 20.04), Fedora (32 & 33), Debian (9), CentOS (7.6 & 8.3), CentOS 8 Stream, Rocky Linux and Marketplace images.","spans":[{"start":0,"end":20,"type":"strong"},{"start":148,"end":159,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The new Droplet Console is available by default on any new Droplets you spin up. 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You’re welcome to spin some Droplets up right now, and try out the new Droplet Console – why wait?","spans":[{"start":72,"end":103,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://cloud.digitalocean.com/droplets/new"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Happy coding!","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Harsh Banwait, Senior Product Manager","spans":[]}],"tags":[{"tag1":{"__typename":"PRISMIC_Tag","tag":"Product Updates","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"product-updates"}}}],"author":{"__typename":"PRISMIC_Author","author_name":"Harsh Banwait","author_image":{"dimensions":{"width":600,"height":399},"alt":null,"copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/e83ff690-b20c-4d88-a2b6-57e562558cd6_download.png?auto=compress,format"},"_meta":{"uid":"harsh-banwait"}},"_meta":{"uid":"new-droplet-console-ssh-support"}},"featured_blog_3":{"__typename":"PRISMIC_Blog","_linkType":"Link.document","blog_header_image":{"dimensions":{"width":790,"height":400},"alt":null,"copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/588e28d3-d41e-480b-937b-8c3b19201f6e_DODX3568-790x400-Blog.jpg?auto=compress,format"},"blog_headline":[{"type":"heading1","text":"How to scale your SaaS product without breaking the bank","spans":[]}],"blog_post_date":"2021-06-22","blog_post_content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"These days, if you are in the business of software, chances are you are delivering or plan to deliver your services using a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model. A combination of internet-based delivery, subscription-based pricing, and low-friction product experiences have made SaaS solutions valuable tools for their users, and an excellent vehicle for software builders looking to distribute their products.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"These factors have made SaaS solutions ubiquitous; SaaS is the largest segment in the public cloud market, and is used to provide functionality ranging from personal finance apps for consumers, to productivity software for businesses, and even tools and services for software developers themselves to compose their applications and simplify their workflows. It is also not uncommon to find micro-SaaS applications being built for specific industries such as retail, job functions such as accounting or marketing, or tasks such as event management. 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","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Writing the code, testing, deployment, monitoring the usage in production, and ensuring that your apps are able to handle the additional demand when customer base and usage grows are all essential and time-consuming tasks.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Additionally, being able to test multiple ideas, pivot, and double down on the ideas that actually work is critical in early stages of SaaS development. Once growth comes, it is equally important to scale up without compromising on performance or reliability. 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The last thing SaaS teams want is surprising and indecipherable bills from your cloud provider. Unfortunately, smaller businesses often experience unpredictable costs with cloud providers who are busy serving only the large enterprises.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading2","text":"DigitalOcean provides a simple, cost effective solution for SaaS builders","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Fortunately, at DigitalOcean we have a laser focus on small software development teams, who are trying to build the next generation of applications. Today, DigitalOcean customers are already building SaaS applications which serve all kinds of customers.","spans":[{"start":191,"end":217,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/solutions/saas/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We believe SaaS builders should focus on building apps that power their business, and not spend their valuable time on managing infrastructure. 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We plan to move a lot of our apps to DigitalOcean App Platform and other fully managed products.” - Roman Svichar, CTO of Vidazoo","spans":[{"start":0,"end":7,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://vidazoo.com/"}},{"start":187,"end":583,"type":"em"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We believe in meeting customers where they are. If they already have an understanding of cloud infrastructure technologies, they should be able to leverage that knowledge and get started with our products without any further ramp up.","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Whatfix is an enterprise SaaS provider that offers a digital adoption platform to businesses. The company helps enterprises gain the full value of their investments in enterprise applications by providing real-time, interactive, and contextual guidance to users of those applications. \n\n“What we really love about the DigitalOcean platform is the ease of use. We feel like we know infrastructure and can handle most of the configuration and management. What we needed from a cloud was not bells and whistles but efficiency and reliability. DigitalOcean provides us a platform to build our apps and then gets out of the way. Just how we like it.” - Achyuth Krishna, Director of Engineering of Whatfix","spans":[{"start":0,"end":7,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://whatfix.com/blog/driving-the-future-now-were-excited-to-announce-our-90-million-series-d-funding/"}},{"start":287,"end":648,"type":"em"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We understand that scaling while maintaining reliability of applications and profitability of business is important, so we provide robust solutions which minimize downtime.","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Centra is a SaaS-based e-commerce platform for global direct-to-consumer and wholesale e-commerce brands. 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The app costs $1.99 to download.","spans":[{"start":102,"end":134,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"With that being said, we've tested it and it works really well! =]","spans":[]}],"blog_post_date":"2013-02-19","tags":[{"tag1":{"tag":"Community","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"community"}}}],"_meta":{"uid":"our-customers-rock-introducing-basin-for-android-and-iphone"}}},{"node":{"author":{"_linkType":"Link.document","author_name":"DigitalOcean","author_image":{"dimensions":{"width":600,"height":600},"alt":"Sammy avatar","copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/a10e3c2eb15b74ee43f872be3044313423b1c9a9_sammy_avatar.png?auto=compress,format"},"_meta":{"uid":"digitalocean"}},"blog_header_image":null,"blog_headline":[{"type":"heading1","text":"Happy Thanksgiving from Sammy the Turkey!","spans":[]}],"blog_post_content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":" ","spans":[]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/d3482542b659a8d95749c1547a3bf624db69df03_do-mascot-turkey.png?auto=compress,format","alt":"Sammy the Turkey","copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":500,"height":427}},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Before everyone in the US heads home to get stuffed on Turkey (or Tofurkey, or Turducken, or whatever else is your preference for the holiday), we here at DigitalOcean wanted to seize the season to give big Thank Yous to everyone who got us where we are now.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Our Users","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We launched DigitalOcean to little fanfare in July of 2011— when we celebrated Thanksgiving last year, we had racked up all of about 100 users on our site. From so small a beginning, we now witness over 60,000 people trying our servers, spinning up droplets, and sending in feedback. The momentum our users generated is incredible and we are grateful for all of the love and support our customers have given us.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Twitter","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"To everyone who shouted out to us on twitter: Thank you! Thank you for being there and spreading the word—we love your tweets, keeping a livestream of our favorites on our site: Customer Stories.","spans":[{"start":178,"end":194,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/customer-stories"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Bug Reports","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"As we grow and build out our features from the users' feedback, we really appreciate the time some take to send in bug reports, helping us shed some light on dark nooks and crannies of DigitalOcean. Those are only cries of joy from the engineers in our office when a user sends in info on an especially tricky bug.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"New York Tech Meetup","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Our first public debut happened on the stage of the Skirball Theater at the March New York Tech Meetup. The five-minute presentation netted more hits to our site than we had ever had before; but more than that, it gave us our first taste of how just awesome the New York startup community was. Thank you to the @nytm for the service they do in bringing the New York Tech Community together and for giving us the opportunity to present before it.","spans":[{"start":311,"end":316,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://twitter.com/nytm"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"New York Tech Day 2012","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We are thankful for being able to collaborate with @nytechday in the 2012, first ever, New York Tech Day! That science fair for startups showed that New York is a new tech city to be reckoned with (hello, Sillicon Valley!).","spans":[{"start":51,"end":61,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://twitter.com/nytechday"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"TechStars Boulder","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Outside the borders of NYC, we want to give a shout to the amazing startup scene in Boulder, Colorado. We were there as a part of the 2012 @techstars class. Aside from all the hours we got to play werewolf, we are grateful for the amazing mentorship that we experienced in the program. Thank you to @nglaros, @seats, and @jp_obrien for their invaluable advice and support!","spans":[{"start":139,"end":149,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://twitter.com/techstars"}},{"start":299,"end":307,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://twitter.com/nglaros"}},{"start":309,"end":315,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://twitter.com/seats"}},{"start":321,"end":331,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://twitter.com/jp_obrien"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Journalists","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"As a growing startup, we are always thankful for the press that we have received and the journalists who made it possible. We must sincerely thank @danreich from Forbes, @trevoragilbert from Pandodaily, and @bradmccarty from TheNextWeb for their great articles that spread the DigitalOcean name further than ads ever could.","spans":[{"start":147,"end":156,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://twitter.com/danreich"}},{"start":170,"end":185,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://twitter.com/trevoragilbert"}},{"start":207,"end":219,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://twitter.com/bradmccarty"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Makers","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"There are just a few last shout outs we must give!","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"-For creating the PHP Class and Python Wrapper for the DigitalOcean API, thank you to Giacomo Tuefekci and @ahmontero respectively","spans":[{"start":86,"end":102,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://github.com/tuefekci"}},{"start":107,"end":117,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://twitter.com/ahmontero"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"-For keeping us on our toes and sending in the most helpful bug report tickets, thank you to @randymorse and @jesper_wallin","spans":[{"start":93,"end":104,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://twitter.com/randymorse"}},{"start":109,"end":123,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://twitter.com/jesper_wallin"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"-For giving the internet a clear, objective record of our server speed, thank you to the folks at @serverbear!","spans":[{"start":98,"end":109,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://twitter.com/serverbear"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"This is just a short list. The amount of people who got us to where we are today stretches far beyond this post. If we did not mention you above, we sincerely apologize!","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We are so grateful to everyone that helped us grow and are thankful that you have made it possible for us to keep doing what we love: serving the tech community at large.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Proudly Made in NYC","spans":[{"start":0,"end":19,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"http://nytm.org/made-in-nyc/"}}]}],"blog_post_date":"2012-11-20","tags":[{"tag1":{"tag":"Community","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"community"}}}],"_meta":{"uid":"happy-thanksgiving-from-sammy-the-turkey"}}},{"node":{"author":{"_linkType":"Link.document","author_name":"DigitalOcean","author_image":{"dimensions":{"width":600,"height":600},"alt":"Sammy avatar","copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/a10e3c2eb15b74ee43f872be3044313423b1c9a9_sammy_avatar.png?auto=compress,format"},"_meta":{"uid":"digitalocean"}},"blog_header_image":null,"blog_headline":[{"type":"heading1","text":"DigitalOcean Badge Images for Your Website","spans":[]}],"blog_post_content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"Due to high demand, we've created 256px x 34px DigitalOcean badges for all of our amazing customers. 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As an incentive/contest, we offered a $500 credit to the customer that launches the 10,000th virtual server(droplet). Needless to say, there was a great story behind how the winner of the contest came to DigitalOcean.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The winner of the contest was Dave, owner of [Naugi.com](http://www.naugi.com/), a bridal tiaras and jewelry website. His search of a new cloud hosting provider started when his website went down on SliceHost/Rackspace cloud servers. He immediately notified his customers on Twitter of the outage... ","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Dave found out that SliceHost had issues with their data center and it ended being the longest outage that he's ever experienced. Eventually his site, Naugi.com, came back online.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Dave wasn't satisfied. During that outage, his company lost out on expected revenue and this ultimately hurt his business. He felt responsible for finding a more stable web infrastructure and eventually came across DigitalOcean, saw that there was a free trial, and ended up launching the 10,000th virtual server. He found that the control panel was easy-to-use and immediately began hosting his website here.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Dave now has enough credits to host his website at no cost for the next 2-3 years on DigitalOcean! 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We were lucky enough to spend some time with Jason Mendelson at High Plains Raceway, of all places, and picked his brain on how we could clearly articulate the vision we had for DigitalOcean. From that meeting, we knew that where we were failing was in how we were positioning ourselves.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"With a renewed focus, we spent the next two weeks rewriting our entire pitch. By the end we ended up with around 10 different demo day pitches. While other companies were busy refining their pitch, we were rewriting ours from scratch.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Luckily it paid off! We went into Demo Day with a pitch that we just finished writing the Friday before. Ben nailed the pitch delivery and the audience loved our story. Nicole prompted us to be prepared to answer those same hard questions that we've heard the entire way through TechStars. But an amazing thing happened: by answering the biggest question that we had during the entire program, we effectively not only told the vision of DigitalOcean, but simultaneously answered the question that was on everyone's mind. The result was that every investor conversation that followed: not a single person asked us how we were going to differentiate from our competitors. Our pitch had already answered that.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Sometimes the things that we resist the most provide the largest value. What we thought was a useless exercise ended up clarifying our company vision and getting us even more excited about what we were creating.","spans":[]}],"blog_post_date":"2012-08-15","tags":[{"tag1":{"tag":"Community","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"community"}}}],"_meta":{"uid":"presenting-at-techstars-demo-day-boulder-2012"}}},{"node":{"author":{"_linkType":"Link.document","author_name":"Moisey Uretsky","author_image":null,"_meta":{"uid":"moisey_uretsky"}},"blog_header_image":null,"blog_headline":[{"type":"heading1","text":"NYC Startup Weekend","spans":[]}],"blog_post_content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"This weekend, DigitalOcean was a very proud contributing sponsor at the NYC Startup Weekend event held at General Assembly. The event was focused around Music and Gaming and gave the participants an awesome opportunity to build a company in a weekend.","spans":[{"start":72,"end":91,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"http://nyc.startupweekend.org/"}},{"start":106,"end":122,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"http://generalassemb.ly/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Participants brainstormed ideas and then these ideas were voted on. The appropriate skill sets were then assigned to each idea and teams were created. Each group consisted of at least a business person, a developer, and a designer. They spent the rest of the weekend building the company and getting ready to pitch to the judges.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"And build they did…","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"One of my favorite parts of watching an event like this is seeing how the ideas transform into prototypes. On Saturday morning, the GA was filled with rough ideas and a lot of what ifs. By Sunday night, the teams were showing off working apps and business models. It's really amazing what can be accomplished in such a short period of time!","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The top 3 team won prizes, and DigitalOcean was excited to provide the first place team with $1,000 of cloud hosting. Here are the winners:","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"First Place: TypeThat — a mobile game that requires you to text the words falling from the sky before they hit the ground. Think Space Invaders meets 2012.","spans":[{"start":129,"end":143,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=437Ld_rKM2s"}}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Second Place: Jam Spot — a site that helps musicians connect with studios to optimize studio usage time and prevent musicians from recording in their uncle's basement.","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Third Place: Startup Trail — inspired by Oregon Trail, this game is based around the life of a startup. Given my addiction to Oregon Trail as a kid, this was surely a hit.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"DigitalOcean was thrilled to award $1,000 worth of cloud hosting to TypeThat and looks forward to watching this team grow. We also provided all of the teams with free cloud hosting to get their apps up and online for the weekend.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"A special thanks to Frank Denbow and all of the organizers, volunteers, judges, participants, and sponsors. Awesome work all around.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"P.S. I hope the TypeThat team doesn't mind me sharing this, but I'm going to anyway :) As I was walking around and talking to the teams before the demos, I was able to listen to TypeThat practice their pitch. It was definitely in a rough state just a few minutes before the final deadline. But with a few small changes and minor tweaks, they were able to pull together a very solid presentation and take home the top honors. That is what we call \"just-in-time\" work at its finest. Nicely done team.","spans":[]}],"blog_post_date":"2012-05-16","tags":[{"tag1":{"tag":"Community","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"community"}}}],"_meta":{"uid":"nyc-startup-weekend"}}}]}}}