Not an answer to your question - but as an aside, why the tone? In the classic HN example, isn't Dropbox just an inferior Rsync?

Eg, if someone wants to clone something and it manages to succeed, they clearly got _something_ right. Either a captive audience, a better UX, a better pricing structure, etc. There's almost always room for ~innovation~ competition, so why poke fun at it?

I suppose if you think it's truly inferior in every way compared to Caprover your tone might make sense - but even then, i've never heard of Caprover, if i was a customer looking for this product (and i may be) i'd probably have defaulted to DigitalOcean for this. If that alone ends up being profitable for them - a Caprover clone with a well known name - why wouldn't they do it?

I see these types of "HN Dropbox" comments on HN so frequently and i just don't get it. There's lots of angles to product viability, and these comments seem to be purposefully ignorant. Not saying you are ignorant, just that the comments seem to try to ignore any logical reason for competition.

I like the sentiment here, competition is great.

But there's also the problem of fragmentation in open source.

I've been using caprover from the early days, and I've seen how much work githubsaturn has put into making it really easy to use.

I think digital ocean has left a lot to be desired on their new offering, which could have been avoided, if they considered collaborating.

And ofcourse I never said digital ocean is just rsync. Just like caprover isn't just docker swarm. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

But their new offering is definitely inferior in terms of functionality.

Digital ocean also has a lot of love. Maybe it’s the heyday MacBook of cloud providers and developers will try this just because it is a DO thing. And I think the love comes from providing a really good platform for side projects. It’s probably a badass user kind of a thing (see the book called badass).

I had to go to Heroku before to be badass but now I can do that with DO who align more to my way of thinking as a developer.

Well DigitalOcean usually have pretty amazing docs, which was something I found lacking with caprover. DO documentation feels like it was written for humans instead of.. I dunno caprover just feels too technically written. It activates the CBA "I'll find something easier to use" feeling

Or yes, use their one click droplet and be using DO anyway except you manage the server if it breaks. Also auto scaling? That's on you

I don't see DO mentioning auto scaling in their docs, links?

It's from this comment thread. Upcoming rather than available

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24698927

I won’t mention the dropbox trope!

Their value add is that it's a managed service

First time I'm hearing of this thing. It looks like another take on Dokku?