https://www.half-empty.ca/tags/technology/ Recent content in Technology on Christopher Hylarides Hugo en-us {{year}} Sun, 24 Nov 2024 10:13:37 -0500 https://www.half-empty.ca/post/digital_ocean/ Sun, 29 May 2016 12:52:40 -0400 https://www.half-empty.ca/post/digital_ocean/ <p>I&rsquo;ve setup this website on a FreeBSD droplet on <a href="https://www.digitalocean.com">Digital Ocean</a>. I want to start off by saying that DO is a wicked cool service that is both relatively cheap, quick, and slick.</p> <p>However, there&rsquo;s currently a problem with their FreeBSD droplets. I&rsquo;m getting some bad packet loss which is killing the performance of the service, which is why the website is taking so long to load. It&rsquo;s a known issue that they&rsquo;re working on but they can&rsquo;t/won&rsquo;t give me a timeframe. They&rsquo;ve given me a free 3 month credit, so I&rsquo;m going to wait it out for another month or so before switching to an Ubuntu image.</p>