alt Hacker NewsI hope they don't bet too much on AI
Based on DO's monthly newsletters, all it cares about anymore is AI.
I don't think its written a single bullet point in two years that wasn't about AI.
It's as if some wave of amnesia came over DO and it forgot it has thousands of existing customers who are not AI wantrapreneurs.
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nine_k • yesterday at 7:38 PM
Come on, this is plain wrong, fortunately.
I'm subscribed to the DO newsletter; let me skim the archive. What they introduced in the last couple of years was: per-second billing, various identity providers for their SSO, managed Postgres upgrades, storage autoscaling, a NAT gateway, "bring your ow IP", etc. Yes, they do actively build out their GPU offerings, and access to open-weight models, but it's by far not the only thing.
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The problem is that their current capacity is literally full. They were running a highly profitable business for the last 2-3 years and recently switched up the strategy to build more datacenters to meet the ai demand.
I can see they want to do it as they are currently demand constrained.