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Alibaba Cloud Function Compute vs. DigitalOcean Droplets

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Alibaba Cloud Function Compute
Score 0.0 out of 10
N/A
Alibaba Cloud Function Compute is a fully hosted and serverless running environment that takes away the need to manage infrastructure such as servers and enables developers to focus on writing and uploading code.N/A
DigitalOcean Droplets
Score 9.7 out of 10
N/A
DigitalOcean's Droplets is designed to help the user spin up a virtual machine in just 55 seconds. Standard, General Purpose, CPU-Optimized, or Memory-Optimized configurations provide flexibility to build, test, and grow an app from startup to scale.
$4
per month
Pricing
Alibaba Cloud Function ComputeDigitalOcean Droplets
Editions & Modules
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Basic
$4
per month
CPU-Optimized
$42
per month
General Purpose
$63
per month
Memory-Optimized
$84
per month
Storage-Optimized
$131
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Alibaba Cloud Function ComputeDigitalOcean Droplets
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details—Pricing for DigitalOcean Droplets varies depending on the size of the virtual environment and the associated data needs.
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Community Pulse
Alibaba Cloud Function ComputeDigitalOcean Droplets
Considered Both Products
Alibaba Cloud Function Compute

No answer on this topic

DigitalOcean Droplets
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose DigitalOcean Droplets
Vultr had better performance in some instances but overall the dashboard was a mess to use a lot of times. When you zoom out from server performance and price, DigitalOcean offered more useful features, and the API was more consistent in some of the use cases we needed.
Prashant Chaudhari | TrustRadius Reviewer
Prashant Chaudhari
Head of Engineering & Founding team member
Chose DigitalOcean Droplets
Cost is much lesser
Interface is very easy to use
Documentation is readily available for most of the usecases.
Anuj Rai | TrustRadius Reviewer
Anuj Rai
Senior Associate Technology
Chose DigitalOcean Droplets
The reason for selecting digital ocean was since we require a cloud solution for testing applications internally without being bothered about servers needing to be deployed in different geographical locations. As Droplets can be deployed very easily and boot faster than any …
LA
Laila Abouizza
Backend Developer
Chose DigitalOcean Droplets
DigitalOcean Droplets has more advanced options and the devs at our team are extremely geeky and they prefer to have full control on the server via SSH rather than cPanel.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose DigitalOcean Droplets
DigitalOcean Droplets is continuously evolving to be more and more powerful. It has great features and has low cost options, which is really great for developers. Its CDN, Loadbalancer, etc. make it a good place to host a high-traffic application. Moroever, DigitalOcean …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose DigitalOcean Droplets
Both Linode and DigitalOcean Droplets perform about the same and cost about the same. However we prefer the DigitalOcean Droplets interface, and the Cloud Firewall service is a must for us.
Features
Alibaba Cloud Function ComputeDigitalOcean Droplets
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Product A and Product B
Alibaba Cloud Function Compute
-
Ratings
DigitalOcean Droplets
8.8
Ratings
6% above category average
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Dynamic scaling00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Elastic load balancing00 Ratings5.00 Ratings
Pre-configured templates00 Ratings5.00 Ratings
Monitoring tools00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Operating system support00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Security controls00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Automation00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Alibaba Cloud Function ComputeDigitalOcean Droplets
Likelihood to Recommend
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(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Alibaba Cloud Function ComputeDigitalOcean Droplets
Likelihood to Recommend
No answers on this topic
There are some other platforms that compete with DigitalOcean Droplets that have more performant servers for a very minimal price decrease. However, DigitalOcean's servers still have great performance, and the experience is better when you consider the developer console, managed options, and uptime that DigitalOcean offers. DigitalOcean is the better all-around package.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Pros
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  • Simplicity to scale services--the interface is very quick and effective to use
  • Reliability--this is key for us, as any downtime effects our reputation
  • Keeps the costs down--hosting our own equivalent infrastructure would cost a lot more
Verified User
Anonymous
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Cons
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  • In terms of an availability zone, they have limitations not available in most of the geographical locations.
  • No live support is available which can cause problem if you have outage.
  • Number of service is quite limited.
Anuj Rai | TrustRadius Reviewer
Anuj Rai
Senior Associate Technology
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Usability
No answers on this topic
Other platforms dashboard console is more difficult to use. DigitalOcean's dashboard is clean, simple, and straightforward
Verified User
Anonymous
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Alternatives Considered
No answers on this topic
DigitalOcean Droplets has more advanced options and the devs at our team are extremely geeky and they prefer to have full control on the server via SSH rather than cPanel.
LA
Laila Abouizza
Backend Developer
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Return on Investment
No answers on this topic
  • Digital Ocean has been great helping us move web apps to the cloud
  • Digital Ocean has been really helpful when hiring contractors
  • The interface could use some work, but overall its not terrible
Tom Blazek | TrustRadius Reviewer
Tom Blazek
IT Manager
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