Appen vs. DigitalOcean App Platform (Nanobox)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Appen
Score 10.0 out of 10
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The Appen platform combines human intelligence from over one million people all over the world with models to create training data for ML projects. Appen users can upload data to the Appen platform, and they provide the annotations, judgments, and labels needed to help create ground truth for models.N/A
DigitalOcean App Platform (Nanobox)
Score 8.0 out of 10
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The DigitalOcean App Platform enables developers to build, deploy, and scale apps on what they describe as a simple, fully managed PaaS. Users of the former Nanobox, acquired by DigitalOcean in 2019, have been migrated to the App Platform upon Nanobox's end of life in March 2021.N/A
Pricing
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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Features
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Platform-as-a-Service
Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
Appen
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Ratings
DigitalOcean App Platform (Nanobox)
6.8
2 Ratings
17% below category average
Ease of building user interfaces00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Scalability00 Ratings4.02 Ratings
Platform management overhead00 Ratings4.02 Ratings
Platform access control00 Ratings4.02 Ratings
Services-enabled integration00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Development environment creation00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Development environment replication00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Issue monitoring and notification00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
Issue recovery00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Upgrades and platform fixes00 Ratings6.02 Ratings
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User Ratings
AppenDigitalOcean App Platform (Nanobox)
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(1 ratings)
7.0
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
AppenDigitalOcean App Platform (Nanobox)
Likelihood to Recommend
Appen
It is well suited for the users and potential employee who are free of any job perspective and need their free time to be utilized. Users can use their free time to be used for submission of interesting tasks.
Whereas the number of tasks are very less and processing time is also very extensive and recruitment takes time more.
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DigitalOcean
I would only get into it if I where willing to pay for the support plan and getting some assurances from the team as to where they are headed. The platform itself is great and can save you a ton of hard work and money. but it's hard to be confidant in it's sustainability.
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Pros
Appen
  • Project listing
  • Hiring of the potential and qualified users
  • Tracking of the projects
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DigitalOcean
  • Hosting of serverless application
  • Hosting of load balancer
  • Hosting of virtual appliances
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Cons
Appen
  • Selection procedure is bit .
  • The questionnaire need to be reviewed.
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DigitalOcean
  • The company has not been very communicative as of lately. Not much news, no apparent work on missing features.
  • Some components are incomplete as far as some critical features. For example, I use RethinkDB as my database and it's missing critical features like backup and clustering, so It is unusable and they should have made that clear from the get go.
  • The pricing on the support plan is vague. I do have the feeling it is actually well worth the money, but it's hard to form a decisions based without more predictable specific.
  • Seems to me like the platform's future is unclear.
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Alternatives Considered
Appen
Appen offers projects mostly related to my native language and also according to my expertise . It offers very interesting projects to be completed , which requires not very expertise and less time to be completed for each task. It is also very convenient to use after selection for the task and also well rewarding against the time consumed for the task completion.
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DigitalOcean
It can help you to host your virtual appliance or serverless application at very low cost. DigitalOcean marketplace also helps you to deploy the serverless app or virtual appliance effortlessly. It is suitable for small scale deployment and the process to setup an account and roll out your app via marketplace is easy and cheap.
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Return on Investment
Appen
  • It has Positive impact as it provides opportunity for new jobs in my area of expertise.
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DigitalOcean
  • The platform is saving me a lot of time I would have been wasting on operations instead of development.
  • The platform is saving me a lot of money as I can easily switch between cloud providers to find the best price.
  • I am worried though for the price I might have to pay in case of an unexpected system issue.
  • Hopefully I will be able to pay the support plan before that.
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