[jd007]

I'm a bit turned off by their (Digital Ocean) features page, in the SSD section, where they implied that SATA means traditional spindle-based HDDs. I kind of expect a cloud server host to know the proper terminology for these things. It's probably an editor's mistake but still...

Quote from Digital Ocean Features page: "With our SSD hard drives, you can expect much faster disk i/o performance when compared to a traditional storage medium (e.g. SATA)"

[ckeck]

They likely just called it out like that here because so many other hosting providers use that as standard terminology.

[idev247]

Can't really judge a service by their marketing. A company might have kick-ass benchmarks but a shitty site. Look at Linode. Their site design looks like it's still 2005.