[Ellipsis753]

I've got no issues with this. Of course they want people to upgrade themselves. They do provide a very nice guide to using swap which I followed myself.

They want to look the best they can and as fast as they can. If your server is heavily using swap people will think it's slow. Also SSDs do not like being written to again and again. This is exactly what using it for swap does so this could be another little reason against it being on by default.

To be fair, I've got a small Wordpress website with Apache, MySQL and PHP on a $5 droplet. After several weeks of working fine MySQL ran out of memory and stopped. Adding swap space has fixed this and the server can still handle 100 connections at once OK. This isn't amazing but it's enough for me for now. So I'd say, add a little swap but be sure you don't have to use it often. I'm totally happy with it being off by default. More RAM will give much better performance than more swap and $5 is incredibly cheap.

[dhimes]

I'm a new DO customer as well and I have no problem with this either. The $5 is for devs and designers- $10-$15 gets me something the public can use.

No contracts.

I have a couple of laptops in the office I use for devs as well- but it's on a dsl with a dynamic ip. To make it static is $30/mo (last I checked). To upgrade from dsl-- I have to switch providers, get a bigger bundle, etc.

This is waaaay better. I can still use the office machines- and do- but have something easier for most worker to use on a daily basis.

(The office ip is tracked with ddclient and I use dnsdynamic.org to follow it. I also email it to myself 4 times a day because dnsdynamic is free, and a little spotty. By the time I start paying for real ip stuff, I might as well go with DO.)