/edit Just now I'm unable to join using the console access on a few of my droplets. I'm on a pretty fast internet connection (60MBps).
* The AMS1 region used to be out of available droplets quite frequently, and in recent weeks it was entirely unavailable to book new ones (at least for me)- which is bad news for scaling existing installs. * The AMS1 region did not have private networking
The fixing of these two points with the new region makes it much more reasonable to deploy multi-node environments to this region.
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larry ellison has an interesting rant about this on youtube.
"Cloud computing means using a computer that's out there"[1] http://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digital-ocea...