[funwithjustin]

I create DigitalOcean droplets on-demand via their API and roughly 10% of the requests just fail with a generic error message, and then get into an error state with "failure to create droplet."

It's... pretty frustrating, so I'm looking for a new provider with a simple API.

[dldlecec]

Hey Justin, Danny from DO here :-). can you open a ticket by and make sure you add "funwithjustin" in the email, we want to make sure you're having fun and not buzzkilled.

[dldlecec]

@ghshephard @riffic @tyingq Your feedback is really important to us, we internalize it and make sure it is heard loud and clear with our Product leads. Totally appreciate the feedback.

[ghshephard]

Yup - I've had the same experience with Digital Ocean through their web interface - though feels closer to 20% for me. It always seems to work the second time I try and create a droplet though, so it's never really bothered me - though I did find it rather ... odd? One would think that creating new droplets by now would be absolutely foolproof.

[riffic]

Have you contacted DO support? You may want to dig deeper into finding a root cause for this.

[tyingq]

Wow...is that a common experience, or unique to your account? Sounds terrible, I'm surprised this isn't more well known.