[brudgers]

My 2 cents: Build an independent autoscaling tool that abstracts over the differences between clouds because:

1. Even if DigitalOcean is the best cloud provider today -- I'm not saying it is or isn't -- the probability it is the best that will ever be is approximately zero. The landscape changes. Heterogeneity among cloud providers is increasing and anyway latency will always be a function of the physical location of data centers where the data is sharded.

2. It's the right alignment for an open source project because it is driven by the broad interests of developers rather than the narrow needs of a single company. DigitalOcean may change its pricing policy. It may cease to exist. It may make breaking API changes. All for legitimate business reasons orthogonal to those of particular developers. If their autoscaling code is platform independent, then that's not a crisis.

Good luck.

[kawera]

Yes, and libcloud is pretty good for abstracting providers: http://libcloud.apache.org/

[gedrap]

The only DO-specific bit would be DO API to create/delete droplets (VPS) so that shouldn't be hard at all :)

[leemalmac]

Thanks.