I create DigitalOcean droplets on-demand via their API and roughly 10% of the requests just fail with a generic error message, and then get into an error state with "failure to create droplet."
It's... pretty frustrating, so I'm looking for a new provider with a simple API.
Long-shot, but if there's any chance you're in the Bay Area, do you think I could buy you coffee or lunch to check it out some time? I really want to see a Curta in-person.
Serious question - what could cause this? I don't know much about network configuration or DNS. Could it be a coordinated attack on Comcast's infrastructure somewhere? Seems a little crazy that they'd be experiencing problem nation-wide with no redundancy baked into their system.
I tried manually flipping over to Google's DNS servers with the same result.
I did some research on this a few months ago and landed on this book, which is highly recommended by physicians with interest in the relationship between gut health and autoimmune diseases.