[ksec]

1. Choice of Node, DO has both US and EU location. 2. Scalable, Instantly Scale up to 96GB of Memory. 3. API - Dont think any of those VPS has those. 4. Hourly Billing.

And would you trust your hosting with Millions of VC backed money or a small VPS company? ( No offence, it is all part of perception and marketing )

I think for less then $10 hosting only, Ramnode and many others LEH wins. But if you want sometime in production that needs more power in the future DO have you backed.

[brandon272]

I didn't say that DigitalOcean was better or worse than any other provider, I simply implied that they are not the first to be offering low cost SSD services and that dollar for dollar, there are other companies which seem to be doing it the same or better.

I don't see any reason to "trust" DigitalOcean more or less than a company like RamNode. VC backed money is not a guarantee against failure or problems with your hosting account.

The potential of instantly scaling up to 96GB of memory and an API are an advantage, but it's not exactly a killer feature. I would imagine it's a small minority of DO customers that ever use those features.