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A few things make Digital Ocean stand out as a hosting provider:
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A very comprehensive tutorial section.  E.g. [https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-configure-nginx-as-a-web-server-and-reverse-proxy-for-apache-on-one-ubuntu-14-04-droplet How to configure nginx as a web server and reverse proxy for apache on a single Ubuntu instance].
 
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Digital Ocean is "Ansible-friendly" because there is a [http://docs.ansible.com/digital_ocean_module.html core module in Ansible for interfacing with the Digital Ocean API]
 
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Very interesting ability to use their API, with not only Ansible, but also their [https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/an-introduction-to-droplet-metadata "User Data"] endpoint.  This can be used to make  "config scripts" for [https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-cloud-config-for-your-initial-server-setup initial server setup].  For more about the User Data endpoints of the API, see https://developers.digitalocean.com/documentation/metadata/
 
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[https://developers.digitalocean.com/libraries/ The API is available as programming-language specific libraries] for just about every popular programming language.  So for example, you can use the [https://github.com/toin0u/DigitalOceanV2 PHP library] to use the DO API in your PHP application.
 
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They offer SSD block storage that you can attach to your host, so if you need a relatively low-power machine but you also need 1TB of disk, you can do that.
 
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Revision as of 12:59, 13 April 2015

A very comprehensive tutorial section makes Digital Ocean stand out. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-configure-nginx-as-a-web-server-and-reverse-proxy-for-apache-on-one-ubuntu-14-04-droplet

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