Key Takeaways
- Hyperscalers are cloud-based infrastructure that can easily and quickly scale-up in response to heavy traffic.
- Digital Ocean offers infrastructure as a service, meaning that SMBs don’t need to keep and maintain their own servers, or understand hyperscalers at all.
- When we talk about scaling up, we’re talking about computability. The example used in the episode is if a group of students on a college campus all decide to start mining Bitcoin. A hyperscaler can respond to that much more quickly than staff can.
- For devs and sysadmins, the better your tools, the more time you have to focus on what you need to focus on.
- Management consoles like Plesk fit in really well with hyperscalers. They are a tools that sits on top so you don’t need to understand Linux commands to do basic things (like install WordPress!)
- Where big providers focus on feature expansion to appease their huge enterprise customers, Digital Ocean takes a different approach: simplicity.
- SMBs are also concerned with scaling rapidly, but may not have the staff or resources to fully understand a solution from the big providers. Digital Ocean’s focus on simplicity means they don’t have to.
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