I have 13 production instances on DO and have been very pleased. Some of them are heavy on the CPU. I did quite a bit of testing comparing equivalent DO 8&16GB instances to Linode and DO came out ahead each time. That may have changed now that Linode released all their upgrades.
I'm interested as I have a customer who pays around £200 a month per dedicated box at the minute for nearly half the spec. They are true dedicated boxes though and the network they are on hardly ever goes down (roughly 20 minutes downtime in 3 months due to an edge router firmware upgrade gone badly wrong).
The provider is transparent though and the issue hasn't happened previously or since.
The 16GB RAM package at £100 a month is just amazing if it really is that stable.
Do you do any type of redundancy between DCs / networks? How did you find their redundancy tools if you did?
I wouldn't call 3 months with 20 minutes of downtime a great track record. I'm not saying that the company isn't worthwhile, but more time might be deserved before calling it stable.
We had 3 months where we had 20 minutes of downtime. The edge router was ~15 minutes and there was a denial of service on a machine in the same portion of the network which took a few minutes to isolate.
That is the only downtime we received in our 12 month initial contract which started Feb 2013 and ended Feb 2014 (we are on a rolling contract now).
So (20 / 12) = 1.6 minutes a month averaged. For arguments sake it puts us around the four 9s in availability a month.
