Amazon Lightsail vs DigitalOcean | TrustRadius

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Score 7.6 out of 10

Based on 6 reviews and ratings

Score 8.1 out of 10

Based on 89 reviews and ratings

Feature Rating Comparison

Amazon Lightsail

DigitalOcean

Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime

Dynamic scaling

Elastic load balancing

Pre-configured templates

Monitoring tools

Pre-defined machine images

Operating system support

Security controls

Pros

Value instances packages
Better organized UI
Easy billing resulting in higher efficiency
Cheaper than competition
Better support staff
Can adjust for any bills you may have incurred by accident

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FrontEnd Development Engineer

Genius Systems Pvt. LtdInternet, 201-500 employees

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Ease of use - You can get set up with a new server in a matter of minutes. It doesn't get any easier than that.
Support - The public forums are incredibly helpful as are the official help articles. I've never needed to contact the support team because of this. All of the information is at my fingertips.
Pricing - We're only paying $10/mo for a solution that gives our customers more confidence in us and is a selling point for us.

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VP of Technology & Human Resources

Quality Ironworks, Inc.Construction, 51-200 employees

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Cons

Very little documentation
Fewer support options in Amazon Lightsail
They only allow one adjustment and force you to terminate the instance that caused the issue before adjusting
Be aware of your usage in AWS
Always check for any extra unwanted bills

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FrontEnd Development Engineer

Genius Systems Pvt. LtdInternet, 201-500 employees

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Some products/services available on other Cloud providers aren't available, but they seem to be catching up as they add new products like Managed SQL DBs.
While they have FreeBSD droplets (VMs), support for *BSD OSs is limited. I.e. the new monitoring agent only works on Linux.
There are no regions available on South America.
They don't seem to offer enterprise-level products, even basic ones as Windows Server, MS SQL Server, Oracle products, etc.

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Leonel Quinteros

Director of Technology

Global Brigades, Inc.Non-Profit Organization Management, 11-50 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

No score

No answers yet

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DigitalOcean 9.0

Based on 2 answers

I've been very happy with it for my purposes and I plan to continue to use DigitalOcean for the foreseeable future!

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Devops Engineer

Tommy BahamaComputer Software, 1-10 employees

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Usability

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DigitalOcean 8.5

Based on 6 answers

While DigitalOcean is a top notch host in our opinion, it could be more user friendly. There have been great strides taken in the last year with user friendliness, and while if you are experienced with web hosting, the services they offer will be easy to use, if you are not then it will require some research on your part.

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Brandon Mullins

CEO

Moon Books PublishingEntertainment, 1-10 employees

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Reliability and Availability

No score

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DigitalOcean 10.0

Based on 1 answer

Have not found a single second of down time myself. Superior availability.

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Front-end developer

Velocity PartnersInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Performance

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DigitalOcean 9.0

Based on 1 answer

Very quick response and high performance, you have to fine tune configurations on your machines though.

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Front-end developer

Velocity PartnersInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Support Rating

No score

No answers yet

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DigitalOcean 8.6

Based on 10 answers

They have always been fast, and the process has been straight-forward. I haven't had to use it enough to be frustrated with it, to be honest, and when I have an issue they fix it. As with all support, I wish it felt more human, but they are doing aces.

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Co-Founder / Full Stack Dev

Madness LabsComputer Software, 1-10 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Amazon Lightsail is a great platform. Before we started using it, we were using AWS EC2 instances as our primary servers after being dissatisfied with other providers. After Amazon Lightsail's introduction, we were able to reduce our operating costs, improve our quality assurance tasks, and provide much more efficient and better apps with our microservices architecture.

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FrontEnd Development Engineer

Genius Systems Pvt. LtdInternet, 201-500 employees

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Amazon has a very complex UI and many products to offer. They haven't polished up their UI and it has a much greater learning curve compared to DigitalOcean. However, Amazon Web Services (AWS) does have more comprehensive cloud computing services, which forces some companies to migrate their backend and other services to AWS as they scale up.

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Co-Founder/CEO

aspace, Inc.Computer Software, 1-10 employees

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Scalability

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DigitalOcean 10.0

Based on 1 answer

Great scalability, you can start with small plans and move up to premium features at a very good price.

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Front-end developer

Velocity PartnersInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Return on Investment

Highly efficient for our microservices architecture
Price to performance
Scalability
Adjustments for unwanted bills or charges
Wide selection of services entice you to use Amazon Lightsail
Able to deploy web apps to a full infrastructure.

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FrontEnd Development Engineer

Genius Systems Pvt. LtdInternet, 201-500 employees

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With DigitalOcean, I've been able to move all my sites to https using my own implementations of SSL with LetsEncrypt.
Since moving my sites to DigitalOcean, my hosting plan costs less than 40% of what I paid for similar hosting from Site5.

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Jeanine Schoessler

Web Developer

satinflame designHigher Education, 1-10 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Amazon Lightsail Editions & Modules

Edition

512 MB Linux	$3.50¹
1 GB Linux	$5.00¹
2 GB Linux	$10.00¹

Per Month

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General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

DigitalOcean Editions & Modules

Edition

1GB-16GB	$5.00¹
8GB-160GB	$60.00¹

Starting Price Per Month

Additional Pricing Details

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