[nmjohn]

I have a handful of sites that are more than just hobby sites, but the number of 9's in the SLA won't affect the bottom line at all. 5 DO droplets = $25 / month makes significantly more sense in this case than paying over $150 for the equivalent at AWS.

And I think this use is a large enough market for DO to make a fortune.

[bryanlarsen]

Sure, but I'm willing to bet that if DO offered failover, you'd be willing to pay them more to take advantage of it. Perhaps not a lot more, but it's money they're leaving on the table.

I do think that offering IP failover would be a much better way for DO to pick up extra revenue in the future than offering a competitor to S3 or EBS or Cloudfront or whatever.

[opendais]

Fair enough.

I've never worked on that sort of thing so to me downtime == $$ lost. I need a load balancer for anything more than a hobby project as a result. The one thing I can't find anywhere is truly multi-DC load balancers as a service from a hosting provider I'd use.