{"componentChunkName":"component---src-templates-tag-jsx","path":"/blog/tag/news/4/","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":"<iframe width=\"200\" height=\"113\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/NvHQSV7jnKA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen></iframe>"}},{"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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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. That is exactly what we have been able to enable through our intuitive products that are built for scale and reliability.","spans":[{"start":205,"end":223,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/products/"}}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Vidazoo is an advertising technology company specializing in video streaming and serving. It serves video ads to thousands of websites and handles close to 10 billion requests per day. \n\n“We are as much a data company as an adtech company. Our business relies on speedy and accurate data processing at massive scale. DigitalOcean provides us the perfect set of tools to operate our SaaS business profitably, while not making us feel the need to become full time system administrators. 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. Centra provides a powerful e-commerce backend that lets brands build pixel-perfect, custom designed, online flagship stores. \n\n“How do we enable our customers to create differentiated online experiences? How do we ensure their e-commerce apps stay up and running at all times? How do we scale on-demand when traffic grows or new customers come in? These are the questions that we ask ourselves every day. Thankfully, we have a partner in DigitalOcean that provides just the platform to answer those questions enabling us to guarantee 99.9% uptime for our clients.” - Martin Jensen, CEO of Centra","spans":[{"start":0,"end":6,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://centra.com/"}},{"start":233,"end":673,"type":"em"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"These are just a few examples of SaaS businesses finding success on DigitalOcean. We are constantly amazed by the creativity and innovation that software builders are utilizing our platform for. If you are interested in learning more about product updates, technical deep-dives and best practices for building SaaS products and businesses, please contact us to learn how we can help you get started. ","spans":[{"start":340,"end":357,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/migrate/?utmmedium=blog","target":"_blank"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Come build with DigitalOcean!","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Looking to migrate your SaaS to DigitalOcean? 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The catalyst of this incident was the failure of multiple redundant power distribution units (PDU) within the datacenter. Complications during the recovery effort prolonged the incident and caused intermittent failures of our control panel and API. We'd like to apologize, share more details about exactly what happened, and talk about how we are working to make sure it doesn't happen again.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading2","text":"The Incident","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The initial power loss affected SFO2 including the core networking infrastructure for the region. As power and connectivity were restored, our event processing system was placed under heavy load from the backlog of in-progress events. The database backing this system was unable to support the load of the SFO2 datacenter recovery in addition to our normal operational load from other datacenters. This temporarily disabled our control panel and API. We then proceeded with recovery on multiple fronts.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading2","text":"Timeline of Events","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"06:15 UTC - A datacenter-level PDU in the building housing our SFO2 region suffered a critical failure. 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Our event processing system became overloaded attempting to process the backlog of pending events while also supporting the normal operational load of our other regions. Work commenced to slow-roll activation of services.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"16:32 UTC - All services activated in SFO2 and event processing re-enabled; customers able to start deploying new Droplets. Existing Droplets not yet restarted. 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We're working to implement stronger safeguards and validation of our power management system to ensure this power failure does not reoccur.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"In addition, we're conducting a review of our datacenter recovery procedures to ensure that we can move more quickly in the event that we do lose power to an entire facility.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Finally, we will be adding additional capacity to our event processing system to ensure it is able to sustain significant peaks in load, such as the one that occurred here.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading2","text":"In Conclusion","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We wanted to share the specific details around this incident as quickly and accurately as possible to give you insight into what happened and how we handled it. We recognize this may have had a direct impact on your business and for that we are deeply sorry. We will be issuing SLA credits to affected users, which will be reflected on their May 1st invoice, and we will continue to explore better ways of mitigating future customer impacting events. The entire team at DigitalOcean thanks you for your understanding and patience.","spans":[]}],"blog_post_date":"2017-04-13","tags":[{"tag1":{"tag":"News","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"news"}}}],"_meta":{"uid":"update-on-the-april-11th-sfo2-power-outage"}}},{"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":"Update on the April 5th, 2017 Outage","spans":[]}],"blog_post_content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"Today, DigitalOcean's control panel and API were unavailable for a period of four hours and fifty-six minutes. During this time, all running Droplets continued to function, but no additional Droplets or other resources could be created or managed. We know that you depend on our services, and an outage like this is unacceptable. We would like to apologize and take full responsibility for the situation. The trust you've placed in us is our most important asset, so we'd like to share all of the details about this event.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"At 10:24 AM EDT on April 5th, 2017, we began to receive alerts that our public services were not functioning. Within three minutes of the initial alerts, we discovered that our primary database had been deleted. Four minutes later we commenced the recovery process, using one of our time-delayed database replicas. Over the next four hours, we copied and restored the data to our primary and secondary replicas. 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In the coming days, we will continue to assess further safeguards against developer error, work to improve our processes around data recovery, and explore ways to provide better real time information during future customer impacting events. We take the reliability of our service seriously and are committed to delivering a platform that you can depend on to run your mission-critical applications. The entire team at DigitalOcean thanks you for your understanding and, again, we apologize for the impact of this incident.","spans":[]}],"blog_post_date":"2017-04-04","tags":[{"tag1":{"tag":"News","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"news"}}}],"_meta":{"uid":"update-on-the-april-5th-2017-outage"}}},{"node":{"author":{"_linkType":"Link.document","author_name":"Rafael Rosa","author_image":{"dimensions":{"width":250,"height":250},"alt":"Rafael Rosa","copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/6326cb734e557630247062ec390166664f5d3b63_77d07a0ba7bc27b40afc8f5932c57417.png?auto=compress,format"},"_meta":{"uid":"rafael_rosa"}},"blog_header_image":{"dimensions":{"width":785,"height":419},"alt":"introducing block storage","copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/1cc14265-6279-4707-80e0-1952ebaf6ac3_hero.png?auto=compress,format"},"blog_headline":[{"type":"heading1","text":"Block Storage: More Space to Scale","spans":[]}],"blog_post_content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"At DigitalOcean, our vision has always been to build a platform that allows developers to run their infrastructure at scale without getting in their way. 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With the help of more than 15,000 beta users, we have designed an experience that is focused on reducing friction and allowing you to scale with ease.","spans":[{"start":195,"end":212,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://twitter.com/search?src=typd&amp;q=digitalocean%20upcoming%20storage"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"With Block Storage, you can now scale your storage independently of your compute and have more control over how you grow your infrastructure, enabling you to build and scale larger applications more easily. Like the Droplet, Block Storage is SSD-based and has an easy-to-use API. Our pricing model is straightforward, based only on capacity: $0.10/GB per month. 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It will be our second West Coast datacenter joining SFO1, one of our most popular. By adding a second datacenter to the region, we are enabling developers to build out more resilient infrastructure. Creating redundancy by scaling across multiple datacenters in the same region enables more robust applications.","spans":[{"start":12,"end":16,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"When architecting for high-availability, replicating your data and being able to failover from one datacenter to another can keep application downtime to a minimum even in the face an unlikely outage. SFO2 opens up the possibility for our users in the region to design more fault-tolerant infrastructure.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"SFO2 comes with our latest hypervisor design, and the datacenter is equipped with 40GbE networking. 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In less than 2 hours of the outage, the customer was able to address the trademark notice, and network access was immediately restored.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"DigitalOcean followed procedures that help protect us from having to resolve what can be complicated disputes between third party rights holders and our customers regarding IP issues. In this case we should have given greater care to the customer's voice and their right to engage in parody. In retrospect, we believe that the website identified in the NRA's takedown notice was not a trademark infringement but was instead protected by the First Amendment. We at DigitalOcean champion freedom of speech and the free and open web.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Going forward, we will be working closely with our legal counsel to review our Trust & Safety procedures so we can make better decisions. 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We want to explain what the changes are, provide insight into the thought process behind them, and clearly define what to expect regarding both your credits and future changes to our terms of service.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We want to be open about our processes and where we made mistakes, and we encourage your comments below or via support emails.","spans":[{"start":111,"end":125,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://cloud.digitalocean.com/support/tickets/new"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"If you just want the TL;DR, check out our GitHub repo to review the changes to our Terms of Service, sections 5.8-5.14 about Credit Expiration.","spans":[{"start":42,"end":53,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://github.com/digitalocean/tos/commit/f4bc18c545339b6b0c22959eaf43317e4e11e6ea"}},{"start":83,"end":99,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/legal/terms/"}}]},{"type":"heading2","text":"Why expire promotional credits?","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Since launching in 2012, DigitalOcean has granted over $30M in credit to our customers and community. With those credits, we fund open source projects, incentivize first-time customers to use our product, and reward those who refer friends to DigitalOcean.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"In late 2014, an audit revealed that we had millions of dollars in unused credit outstanding as liabilities on our balance sheet, as shown by the graph below.","spans":[]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/268febd50959270cd62a640ab3a86df55bc86d17_graph.png?auto=compress,format","alt":"Unused credits","copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":932,"height":611}},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Overall, credit expiration is necessary to decrease the liability on our balance sheet so that we can maintain healthy financials. As you'll read, it took over a year to realize we made these changes using the wrong process.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading2","text":"What happened?","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"At the heart of all of this, we are a business that intends to be around for a very long time, so in March of 2015, we updated our Terms of Service to indicate that unused promotional credits would expire 12 months after being applied to an account. This notification was sent only via control panel notification.","spans":[{"start":131,"end":147,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/legal/terms/"}},{"start":286,"end":312,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://cloud.digitalocean.com/notifications"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"In early 2016, we started to write code to expire credit . When we looked at the current amount of outstanding credit, there was a large balance that wasn't covered in the 2015 terms update. We updated the terms again in March 2016 to include expiration for referral credits, but did not provide 12 months advanced notice to our customers. We also neglected to include all other types of credits that aren't promotional credits, such as SLA credits.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"On March 31st, we sent emails and control panel notifications to approximately 280,000 customers explaining that some or all of their account credit would be expiring on May 1st. This included all types of account credit over 12 months old. Through lots of customer feedback, we realized that this email came as a surprise, which we're truly sorry for. It was a mistake on our part to lump referral credit expiration and other credits into the May 1st expiration timeline because we had not provided adequate notice to our customers.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading2","text":"What was the feedback that we received?","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The feedback from roughly 650 customers and members of our community had a few themes, and the major point of contention was that we didn't provide enough notice. This can be articulated in a few ways. First, we need to make it more explicit in our product that credit can expire. Secondly, customers want more than 30 days notice. Lastly, we need to provide more clear updates to our terms of service.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Internally, the sentiment from about 50 DigitalOcean employees closely mirrored what our customers were telling us. A few employees were concerned that we alienated some of our long-time supporters. In further discussions, we realized that our internal communication about this change wasn't as clear as it could have been, which certainly made us realize that our external communication must need more clarity, too. A member of our support team, Jon, summed it up neatly by remarking that we didn't do the wrong thing, but we did it in the wrong way.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"One thing was crystal clear: both our customers and our employees wanted us to be more explicit with changes to our terms and to take some immediate action to rectify the current situation. Cumulatively, all of the input set off about three weeks of work which we've outlined below.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading2","text":"What is the action plan?","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"In the beginning of April, we created a Customer Advocacy Group whose overall mission is to make sure that we cultivate customer-focused decisions. This group is a permanent part of DigitalOcean, and its first task was to create an action plan for credit expiration based on the feedback we received balanced with our business goals. As a result of our group's work, we've implemented the following changes which we feel are a step in the right direction.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"First, we've updated our terms here, and put them into a GitHub repo so that you can see exactly what has changed. You can expect this for any future updates. Here are the highlights with respect to credit expiration:","spans":[{"start":13,"end":35,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/legal/terms/"}},{"start":55,"end":68,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://github.com/digitalocean/tos"}}]},{"type":"o-list-item","text":"Promotional credit will expire 12 months after it has been issued or redeemed. This includes referral sign-up credit, promotion codes you've entered, or credit issued by DigitalOcean staff.","spans":[{"start":0,"end":18,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"o-list-item","text":"Referral and SLA credit will now expire after 12 months of account inactivity, and no sooner than May 2017. This includes credits earned from referring customers to DigitalOcean and SLA credits.","spans":[{"start":0,"end":23,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Additionally, all credit redemption email notifications from now on will link to our terms about credit expiration so our policy is clear to future customers. Soon, we'll be able to expose the credit expiration date on your billing page as well.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Secondly, we're emailing all of customers with much more detail about changes in our terms, which will be our process on all future changes. We're also providing a control panel notification with more detail and links to the GitHub repo. As time progresses, our aim is to provide more than 60 days notice for any expiring credits.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Lastly, if you have credit that's expiring and you would like to utilize it, we highly encourage you to get in touch with our support team. We want to help with your development goals, and encourage you to provide details on how you're using DigitalOcean.","spans":[{"start":104,"end":138,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://cloud.digitalocean.com/support/tickets/new"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"by Zach Bouzan-Kaloustian, Director of Support,\n\nand the DigitalOcean Customer Advocacy Group","spans":[]}],"blog_post_date":"2016-04-25","tags":[{"tag1":{"tag":"News","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"news"}}}],"_meta":{"uid":"details-on-expiring-digitalocean-credits"}}},{"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":"Update on the March 24, 2016 DNS Outage","spans":[]}],"blog_post_content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"Yesterday, DigitalOcean's DNS infrastructure was unavailable for two hours and four minutes. During this time we were only able to respond to a small fraction of the DNS requests sent to ns1, ns2, and ns3.digitalocean.com. We know how much you rely on DigitalOcean, and we take the availability and reliability of our services very seriously. We would like to apologize and share more details about our DNS system in general, this specific attack, and what we are doing to make our systems more resilient from here on.","spans":[{"start":166,"end":169,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System"}}]},{"type":"heading2","text":"Some background","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The resolvers which compose our authoritative DNS infrastructure are fronted by a well-known DDoS mitigation company. The service they offer uses anycast to move traffic from clients all across the world to DigitalOcean's nearest datacenter. We then have authoritative resolvers in all of our facilities to process and respond to DNS queries. One of the most significant advantages to this approach is it allows for simple load distribution across our global footprint and makes it easy to add more resolvers to deal with increased capacity needs.","spans":[{"start":146,"end":153,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anycast"}}]},{"type":"heading2","text":"The incident","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"At 2:34 pm UTC (10:34 am EDT) on March 24, 2016, we began to receive alerts from our monitoring system that all the resolvers were failing to respond to DNS queries. As we investigated the issue, we noticed that the resolvers were receiving orders of magnitude more queries than normal. Although there was significantly more capacity available than is required during typical peak operation, it was still not enough to answer this unusually large quantity of inbound queries. We started to take a closer look  at the queries which were being sent to the resolvers in an attempt to differentiate normal traffic from that of a bad actor. The traffic patterns and source IP addresses matched what we would expect — just at much larger volumes than normal. You can see uncached (the yellow line) and cached traffic (the green line) below.","spans":[]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/7021c1cd69e69f37e271338c8536ca9dba0c7f5d_image01.png?auto=compress,format","alt":null,"copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":1886,"height":1190}},{"type":"paragraph","text":"At this point, our DDoS mitigation provider was engaged. All of our DNS traffic flows through their network, which has numerous protections in place to both identify and mitigate attacks. However, neither of us were able to find anything abnormal about this traffic beyond its volume at that point.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Our DNS daemon was configured to empty the queue of unanswered queries at a certain threshold to ensure the daemon would be able to answer future inbound queries. This inadvertently caused cache invalidation. We rolled out a new configuration that solved this issue, but the caches failed to repopulate. Although the system can withstand all the resolvers losing their query caches under normal conditions, the vastly increased number of queries made it impossible for the resolvers to rebuild their cache. This all took place while the resolvers were already under abnormally high load, causing them further stress.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"At this point, we further engaged with our DDoS mitigation provider to help identify the source and types of traffic and recognized a higher-than-normal percentage of queries for PTR records. We began blocking them to allow us to respond to other queries. They were also able to reduce the number of queries reaching our resolvers by blocking some autonomous system numbers (ASNs) from which the most significant volumes of traffic were originating. Finally, we increased the TTL for cached DNS records, which is the length of time for which the edge caches responses before allowing new queries to hit the origin resolvers.  As we looked through the traffic to find patterns, it became clear that the attacker knew a large number of domains managed with our DNS infrastructure. All of our public subnets are available via ARIN, which means it's possible to find domains which are hosted on our service, infer they are using our DNS, and then send large volumes of legitimate-looking queries. Although the ASN blocking certainly prevented some legitimate DNS lookups from being answered, it almost immediately allowed the system to begin answering most queries.","spans":[{"start":348,"end":373,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_system_(Internet)"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The service began responding to queries with normal latencies starting at 4:40 pm UTC (12:40 pm EDT). Caches began to repopulate and query volume returned to normal levels. At 5:30 pm UTC (1:30 pm EDT), the vast majority of traffic ingressing to our resolvers was clean. In the first graph below, it's possible to see the dramatic increase in query cache hit rate as the service begins to recover.","spans":[]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/8eef2a4c1fdb6a094823ab50b19765cb7c6a7fa9_image02.png?auto=compress,format","alt":null,"copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":1094,"height":472}},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The graph below shows SERVFAILs in green, 50th percentile latencies between the edge and our resolvers in blue, and 90th percentile latencies in yellow.","spans":[]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/b0db6aabe0d8ae40a9fbc08c1c11a98f935390de_image03.png?auto=compress,format","alt":null,"copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":1764,"height":236}},{"type":"paragraph","text":"At 7:22 pm UTC (3:22 pm EDT), the majority of the filtering was removed.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading2","text":"Future measures","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"There are a number of pieces of infrastructure we are reviewing and improving. Most notably, we will be building better means of moving DNS traffic around within our infrastructure. One of the things which caused this incident to span two hours was the lack of control we had over the traffic which was reaching our network. Although we'll continue to work with the DDoS mitigation provider, we will also be improving our own DNS network by creating means to internally move, rate limit, and shape traffic in order to continue to respond to most requests even while under attack. We already have robust tooling in place for mitigating attacks on the Droplet network and will extend that to support DNS as well.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We will be decoupling the provisioning of additional capacity from the DDoS mitigation provider entirely. External communications with our DDoS mitigation provider meant that we had a fairly constant back-and-forth during the incident, making it harder for us to test mitigation techniques on our own. They transparently send through requests to the resolvers, which means our ability to provision more resolver capacity is dependent upon the provider's speed of response. This caused adding additional nodes to the pool to take much longer than is ideal, which subsequently slowed our return to normal operation. We're planning to change how we present our network to the proxies run by our DDoS mitigation provider to make dynamically changing the capacity of the pool easier.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading2","text":"In Conclusion","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"First and foremost, we know that our service is critical in the success of your projects and businesses. All of us at DigitalOcean would like to apologize for the impact of this outage. We will continue to analyze this incident, hone our internal communications, and take steps to improve the reliability and resilience of the systems which power DigitalOcean.","spans":[]}],"blog_post_date":"2016-03-23","tags":[{"tag1":{"tag":"News","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"news"}}}],"_meta":{"uid":"update-on-the-march-24-2016-dns-outage"}}},{"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":{"dimensions":{"width":784,"height":418},"alt":"DO is coming to india","copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/fe06d0c8-d583-42c6-8b4c-2a3643f04681_hero.jpg?auto=compress,format"},"blog_headline":[{"type":"heading1","text":"Announcing the Home of our Next Data Center: Bangalore, India","spans":[]}],"blog_post_content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"Tomorrow morning, India Standard Time, our COO Karl will announce our newest data center region at SURGE conference in Bangalore, India's central tech hub and the place where we plan to power up our next facility this summer.","spans":[{"start":99,"end":104,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://surgeconf.com/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Developers throughout India and the neighboring regions have been with us since the very beginning of DigitalOcean and as early as June 2013 have been urging us to come to India. 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The data center will be equipped with our most up-to-date hardware and network architecture, and it will be among the first to have access to our newest products coming out this year.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We are truly excited to be coming to India, and look forward to hearing feedback on how we can best serve the community. If you are at SURGE, make sure to drop by our developers' lounge. If not, reach out to us in the comments or on Twitter any time. 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It grants developers peace of mind knowing their application is architected to withstand failure scenarios.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Today, we are excited to announce Floating IPs. A Floating IP is an IP address that can be instantly moved from one Droplet to another Droplet in the same datacenter.","spans":[{"start":34,"end":46,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Part of a highly available infrastructure is being able to immediately point an IP address to a redundant server. This is now possible with the addition of Floating IPs.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading2","text":"How It Works","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Single points of failure can be the downfall of any application. With Floating IPs, customers can associate an IP address with a different Droplet, with minimal downtime. This makes it possible to set up a standby Droplet, ready to receive your production traffic at a moment's notice.","spans":[]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/MDliOWQwNTgtMjFkMy00YzJkLTkxOWQtZjYyMDg4Y2NlMjk3_ha-diagram-animated.gif?auto=compress,format","alt":"Traffic is switched to another load balancer using the floating IP","copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":1200,"height":577}},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Floating IPs are free to use. However, due to the shortage of IPv4 addresses available, if you reserve an address but don't assign it to a Droplet,  we charge $0.006 per hour for each unassigned, reserved IP. (You can relinquish unused IPs from the control panel.) 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There are nearly half a million software developers throughout Canada, and we at DigitalOcean have always felt lots of love from the Canadian developer community. Today we're excited to send some love back their way as we proudly open the doors to our Canadian datacenter, TOR1. Universe, a platform for people to discover and create events based in Toronto, is already a DigitalOcean customer. We are excited to help them expand their business in Canada.","spans":[{"start":351,"end":359,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.universe.com/home"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"This was a highly requested location. Each hypervisor comes equipped with 40GbE networking and the latest model of SSDs.","spans":[{"start":11,"end":36,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digitalocean/suggestions/3554083-canadian-datacenter"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Because all of these Droplets will be physically in Canada, if your business needs to keep data in the Great White North, you'll now be able to do that. DigitalOcean is committed to upholding the highest standards in privacy and security, and TOR1 enables us to extend those protections to our customers' customers.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"To celebrate the TOR1 launch with our friends in Canada, we'll be hosting events throughout October. Save the dates for your cities: Toronto (Oct 13-15), Vancouver (Oct 20-22), and Montreal (Oct 28 - 29). The official event details will be added to this post soon.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Head over to the Droplet create page or use the API to spin up a maple-flavored Droplet in TOR1 today!","spans":[{"start":17,"end":36,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://cloud.digitalocean.com/droplets/new"}},{"start":40,"end":51,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://developers.digitalocean.com/documentation/v2/#create-a-new-droplet"}}]}],"blog_post_date":"2015-09-22","tags":[{"tag1":{"tag":"News","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"news"}}}],"_meta":{"uid":"introducing-our-new-canadian-datacenter-tor1"}}},{"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":{"dimensions":{"width":784,"height":418},"alt":"Sunset over ocean with fish jumping over the text 'Thank you!' illustration","copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/ead0daf7acfebeee9c21c3c8759797106654db2a_thank_you.jpg?auto=compress,format"},"blog_headline":[{"type":"heading1","text":"Series B Funding: Writing a New Chapter in the DigitalOcean Story","spans":[]}],"blog_post_content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"For over three years, we've been driven by the desire to empower developers and make cloud infrastructure simple. To date, over 500,000 developers have deployed more than 6 million Droplets on DigitalOcean and as the infrastructure needs of our developer community have continued to evolve, we have aspired to as well.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Today, we're excited to announce that we've closed a Series B funding round worth $83 million, led by Access Industries with participation from Andreessen Horowitz. This funding represents our continued commitment to helping developers thrive and to help scaling startups grow on our infrastructure.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading3","text":"Scaling","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We've experienced many of the growing pains that come with turning into a scalable business. In 2011, our five founders wanted to create a simple infrastructure experience that developers would love to use. In 2012, TechStars accepted us into their Boulder class; we set up shop in Colorado that summer and graduated the program with our first 400 customers.","spans":[]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/8285e1a0c09ab58da49745359130542415501aac_the_beginning.jpg?auto=compress,format","alt":"TechStars","copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":564,"height":396}},{"type":"paragraph","text":"TechStars 2012","spans":[{"start":0,"end":14,"type":"em"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The early DigitalOcean adopters had only two choices of datacenter regions (New York and Amsterdam) on a cloud that was maintained and operated on just a few servers.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Since then, a lot has changed. We've raised a seed round and Series A which we used to build out servers in six locations (New York, London, Singapore, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, and San Francisco), added features like user data, IPv6, private networking, team account management, and updated our Community platform. Our hardware footprint expanded, the complexity of our system deepened, and the technological challenges we faced grew. A cloud that once ran on six servers now is powered by over ten thousand.","spans":[{"start":292,"end":301,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/community"}}]},{"type":"heading3","text":"Growing Together","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Since our outset, we have loved to see the variety of amazing work hosted on DigitalOcean, from single-server hacks created overnight at hackathons to innovative applications which serve millions of happy users.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"As developers and entrepreneurs ourselves, we've seen how quickly a company can grow. That same single-server app, gone viral on Hacker News, can transition from a personal project to a full-fledged business. We want to make that transition effortless and raised this Series B to continue supporting individual developers further on in their journey.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"How? The $83 million is going directly into growing our team and expanding our product offerings with networking and storage features. When we started, we felt the pain points of developers who had to contend with questions on how to spin up a single server rather than being able to focus on their applications. We solved this by providing developers with a simple and intuitive control panel. Now, by learning from our own company's growth, we're focused on addressing developers' challenges as they grow; spinning up a server should be simple, but so should creating a production environment to handle load at any scale.","spans":[{"start":44,"end":60,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/company/careers/"}}]},{"type":"heading3","text":"Thank You!","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We are extraordinarily indebted to the amazing people who have personally made all of this possible.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Thank you to the DigitalOcean family for building and supporting this cloud with your signature love, creativity, passion, and hard work!","spans":[{"start":17,"end":36,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/company/about/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Thank you to our investors, IA Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, and Access Industries for believing in our vision.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Last but certainly not least, we would like to thank you, our community! Thank you for growing with us and for challenging us to be better every day. We wouldn't be here without you.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Here's to writing this new chapter together!","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"DigitalOcean HQ 2015","spans":[{"start":0,"end":20,"type":"em"}]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/0470fe0347edc7a6a3342eb5940af5300b213e5b_the_team.jpg?auto=compress,format","alt":"DigitalOcean HQ","copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":2000,"height":1333}}],"blog_post_date":"2015-07-07","tags":[{"tag1":{"tag":"News","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"news"}}}],"_meta":{"uid":"series-b-funding-writing-a-new-chapter-in-the-digitalocean-story"}}}]}}}