Leaving DigitalOcean, one site at a time
Today DigitalOcean joined the same foundation’s donor list, pledging $1 million a year for three years to the Omacom Foundation, the nonprofit behind DHH’s Omarchy. So, good timing 🙃 I’m not going to do the whole DHH argument again. The last post has the quotes and the sources.
- ▪Today DigitalOcean joined the same foundation’s donor list, pledging $1 million a year for three years to the Omacom Foundation, the nonprofit behind DHH’s Omarchy.
- ▪So, good timing 🙃 I’m not going to do the whole DHH argument again.
- ▪The last post has the quotes and the sources.
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Last week I wrote about canceling 1Password. Today DigitalOcean joined the same foundation’s donor list, pledging $1 million a year for three years to the Omacom Foundation, the nonprofit behind DHH’s Omarchy. Three million dollars. Ten times what made me cancel 1Password. moved a bunch of projects off fly & random various droplets into one medium expensive (to myself) server and it was very annoying so please clap— Keith Kurson (@keithlaugh.love) September 5, 2026 at 8:54 AM I’d already spent the weekend moving my personal site and projects (atmoBB, pollen.place, and the rest) off a pile of DigitalOcean droplets and Fly machines onto one UpCloud machine, an object storage bucket, and a small managed Postgres database. So, good timing 🙃 I’m not going to do the whole DHH argument again.
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