July Product Update

lock Storage in NYC1, SFO2, more soon!
Scale disk space independent of compute with highly available SSD Block Storage volumes from 1GB to 16TB. Volumes have a straightforward price of $0.10/GB per month.

For more details, read the Block Storage blog post, see our growing list of tutorials on the subject, or try it for yourself via the cloud control panel, API or the command-line interface: DOCTL.

Live Snapshots for Droplets
Snapshots just got a lot better: You can now create snapshots without powering down your Droplet! Use snapshots to transfer droplets between regions, send to other users, and restore your droplet to a previous state.

Updates to Community
If you’ve visited community recently you may have noticed some updates

Users can now upvote content they find helpful within Q&A, tutorials and projects

Answers to questions can now be marked as accepted by the question author

Improvements to Teams
We released some major updates to how teams work on DigitalOcean:

• One account can belong to as many as 10 teams
• Easily switch between teams and your personal account
• Improved invitations & team management
• New role for “billing”

www.digitalocean.com/company/blog/teams-work-better-together/


More Datacenters: Bangalore and San Francisco
We opened our Bangalore datacenter in May, bringing droplets to the fastest growing ecosystem of startups and entrepreneurs, India. Our second San Francisco datacenter (SFO2) opened in July, greatly expanding capacity in one of our most popular regions.

RethinkDB Horizon One-Click
Recently, the team at RethinkDB released Horizon, a realtime, open-source backend for JavaScript apps. Our One-Click Application provides a convenient way to get started with Horizon and get your RethinkDB-powered projects up and running quickly.
www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-the-horizon-one-click-install-image