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Digital Ocean launches in London!

iKeyZiKeyZ Veteran
edited July 2014 in Providers

Today we are thrilled to announce that developers can now launch Droplets in our newest region, London, United Kingdom.

Our community has been requesting a UK region for a while now, and we’re excited to announce that it is now available. It is through our users’ support that we have now been able to expand to five regions globally.

London is experiencing a boom in tech and entrepreneurship that looks very similar to NYC’s own tech expansion a few years ago, and we want to provide innovative companies in the United Kingdom with the infrastructure they need to grow and succeed. Additionally, we want to ensure that UK developers can comply with data privacy regulations by having a native facility.

IPv6 and private networking are available for Droplets deployed in the new London region. We are excited to see what is developed in the London datacenter and look forward to offering more DigitalOcean regions around the world as we continue to grow.

https://www.digitalocean.com/company/blog/introducing-our-london-region/

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  • SunnSunn Member

    OMG, i am soo hype..

  • rds100rds100 Member
    edited July 2014

    Creating droplet. Let's see if it's proper ipv6 this time.

    edit: Meh, seems like one shared /64 for everyone.

  • NekkiNekki Veteran

    Actually London, or fucking pissing Kent?

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  • trexostrexos Member

    Geolocated in the UK?

  • rds100rds100 Member
    edited July 2014

    Nekki said: Actually London, or fucking pissing Kent?

    178.62.0.1

    CPU model :  Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630L v2 @ 2.40GHz
Number of cores : 1
CPU frequency :  2399.998 MHz
Total amount of ram : 502 MB
Total amount of swap : 0 MB
System uptime :   5 min,       
Download speed from CacheFly: 28.3MB/s 
Download speed from Coloat, Atlanta GA: 13.0MB/s 
Download speed from Softlayer, Dallas, TX: 15.4MB/s 
Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 6.50MB/s 
Download speed from i3d.net, Rotterdam, NL: 35.2MB/s
Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 56.8MB/s 
Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 7.59MB/s 
Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 5.53MB/s 
Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 11.3MB/s 
Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 25.7MB/s 
I/O speed :  164 MB/s
  • jhjh Member

    Softlayer too ;)

  • 0xdragon0xdragon Member

    Where's the free credit?

  • wychwych Member
    edited July 2014

    1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.1

    2 14 ms 13 ms 13 ms lo0.11.central11.ptn-bng01.plus.net [195.166.128.229]

    3 14 ms 14 ms 14 ms irb.11.ptw-cr02.plus.net [84.93.249.18]

    4 14 ms 14 ms 14 ms ae2.ptw-cr01.plus.net [195.166.129.4]

    5 21 ms 14 ms 15 ms te-4-2.car5.London1.Level3.net [217.163.45.249]

    6 14 ms 14 ms 14 ms ae-51-51.csw1.London1.Level3.net [4.69.139.88]

    7 14 ms 14 ms 14 ms ae-123-3509.edge5.London1.Level3.net [4.69.166.33]

    8 16 ms 15 ms 15 ms ae-3.r00.londen10.uk.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.9.125]

    9 17 ms 16 ms 17 ms ae-15.r02.londen03.uk.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.3.30]

    10 22 ms 16 ms 16 ms ae-2.r02.londen01.uk.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.3.1]

    11 16 ms 16 ms 16 ms hds.r00.londen01.uk.bb.gin.ntt.net [83.231.181.126]

    12 16 ms 26 ms 17 ms 178.62.0.1

  • NekkiNekki Veteran

    rds100 said: 178.62.0.1

    Currently geo-locates to the US, route definitely goes into London...

  • rmlhhdrmlhhd Member
    edited July 2014

    .

  • TammyTammy Member

    great.Creating droplet

  • wychwych Member

    @Nekki said:
    Currently geo-locates to the US, route definitely goes into London...

    MM is showing Russia for me?

  • J1021J1021 Member
    edited July 2014

    Any idea what facility they're using?

    No additional IP kills DO for me.

  • RazzaRazza Member

    @Nekki said:
    Currently geo-locates to the US, route definitely goes into London...

    Mine geo-locates to london

  • IshaqIshaq Member

    kcaj said: Any idea what facility they're using?

    Equinix LD5 London

  • InfinityInfinity Member, Host Rep

    Mmm, most of the routes go over NTT which is quite crap imo, not getting the best latency ever.

  • kyakykyaky Member

    will give a try

  • rm_rm_ IPv6 Advocate, Veteran
    edited July 2014

    NTT+Telia http://bgp.he.net/AS202109
    They clearly get wholesale deals from these carriers, due to using them in many of their other locations too.

    All in all, pretty underwhelming, do not see the need for London when they already have not just one, but two DCs in Amsterdam, which is pretty close. Would've been much more awesome to see JP/HK or even South America added. And if they want to expand in Europe, Stockholm would've made more sense from the diversity/coverage standpoint.

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  • LeeLee Veteran

    It may appear underwhelming but I suspect the market within the UK itself for those who want a UK location is big enough to justify the move. As I have said before, the market DO and others are chasing is far bigger than the free credit chasers and lowend markets.

  • pauliakaspauliakas Member

    Great news from DO, defiantly will try out new DS

  • netomxnetomx Moderator, Veteran

    Will they get DDoS too there? It will be interesting

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  • hostnoobhostnoob Member

    @netomx said:
    Will they get DDoS too there? It will be interesting

    I guess, but don't DO have unlimited money?

  • netomxnetomx Moderator, Veteran

    @hostnoob said:
    I guess, but don't DO have unlimited money?

    We hope

  • instatechinstatech Member

    Good news.Also I will like to ask that stupid ddoser who have taken down alot of LET hosts.Where are you now?Let see how you will stop them taking digitalocean UK location down will only be in your dreams.That ddoser is gonna pee in his pants.

  • RaymiiRaymii Member

    DO should fix their kernel shit and allow custom ISO booting.

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  • Jono20201Jono20201 Member

    @Ishaq said:
    Equinix LD5 London

    Unfortunately not central London like the dedi's we have in Tutis Point.

  • J1021J1021 Member

    ServerBear benchmark: http://serverbear.com/benchmark/2014/07/15/Cq86tNyBMRH6kmpt

  • InfinityInfinity Member, Host Rep

    @Jono20201 said:
    Unfortunately not central London like the dedi's we have in Tutis Point.

    Agreed, Slough is crap and it's noticable with the crappy transit they have. Although location even if it's slap in the middle of London isn't really any good if you have crappy transit.

  • bigcatbigcat Member

    Anyone able to pinpoint the exact datacenter yet?

  • J1021J1021 Member

    bigcat said: Anyone able to pinpoint the exact datacenter yet?

    Ishaq said: Equinix LD5 London

    http://www.equinix.co.uk/locations/united-kingdom-colocation/london-data-centers/ld5

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