They need to keep on top of existing demand as well and start running over-capacity. Not joking but it's pretty long wait to get an instance up in a preferred DC sometimes which is putting a lot of us off the platform.
I am going to keep machines at Digital Ocean, but they have had the most failures/downtime I have seen from any host that I've used in nearly a decade, including ec2, rackspace, and gogrid (if there is anyone left using gogrid.)
One problem we've run in to is an instance fails, but it can't be brought back up because the backup image is only located in the datacenter that is already at capacity.
I didn't actually consider that last point. That has effectively killed DO for me instantly from a risk point of view and I'm going to immediately migrate my two machines off it. Literally it's 22:50 here tonight and I don't think I'll sleep until it's done.
Have some company credit left over with Azure so will throw it on there on Ubuntu for now.
