[searcheye]

This is an interesting one for me. I run a small network of sites, around 130 or so (Wordpress) that used to be hosted on DO. We had CDN and heavy caching implemented, as well as fail2ban and other security features. For some reason, every site would go down at some point monthly: error connecting to database, Apache crashed, etc... couldn’t get any support on it.

We switched to WP-engine and haven’t had a single issue. We now host our web apps with Azure without issue as well. We spend maybe $5-$7k / month on hosting (which is a drop in the bucket for larger companies), but I can’t imagine we are the only ones who encountered this.

[swyx]

that sounds awful. i would certainly be interested in hearing from someone at DO about the real behind the scenes on why it was so bad.

It sounds like you would have stuck with DO if they were simply more reliable though - so their losing you is entirely their fault.

[icemelt8]

I had the same story, my WP site would go down everyday. Switched to SiteGround and haven't looked back