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Cloudflare
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Top Rated
162 Ratings
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114 Ratings
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Based on 114 reviews and ratings
Feature Set Ratings
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

Cloudflare
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A

8.0
DigitalOcean
80%
DigitalOcean ranks higher in 9/9 features
DigitalOcean ranks higher in 9/9 features
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime

N/A
0 Ratings

9.0
90%
26 Ratings
Dynamic scaling

N/A
0 Ratings

8.0
80%
28 Ratings
Elastic load balancing

N/A
0 Ratings

7.0
70%
20 Ratings
Pre-configured templates

N/A
0 Ratings

9.5
95%
25 Ratings
Monitoring tools

N/A
0 Ratings

7.4
74%
30 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images

N/A
0 Ratings

8.5
85%
29 Ratings
Operating system support

N/A
0 Ratings

7.4
74%
29 Ratings
Security controls

N/A
0 Ratings

7.4
74%
28 Ratings
Automation

N/A
0 Ratings

8.0
80%
2 Ratings
Attribute Ratings
- Cloudflare is rated higher in 3 areas: Likelihood to Recommend, Likelihood to Renew, Usability
- DigitalOcean is rated higher in 1 area: Support Rating
Likelihood to Recommend

9.1
Cloudflare
91%
76 Ratings

8.5
DigitalOcean
85%
31 Ratings
Likelihood to Renew

10.0
Cloudflare
100%
1 Rating

9.0
DigitalOcean
90%
2 Ratings
Usability

9.0
Cloudflare
90%
1 Rating

8.6
DigitalOcean
86%
6 Ratings
Availability

Cloudflare
N/A
0 Ratings

10.0
DigitalOcean
100%
2 Ratings
Performance

Cloudflare
N/A
0 Ratings

9.0
DigitalOcean
90%
2 Ratings
Support Rating

8.5
Cloudflare
85%
54 Ratings

8.8
DigitalOcean
88%
18 Ratings
Product Scalability

Cloudflare
N/A
0 Ratings

10.0
DigitalOcean
100%
1 Rating
Likelihood to Recommend
Cloudflare
I can't think of a single scenario where Cloudflare isn't useful. Our company uses Cloudflare for ALL sites. In fact, as a Web Development Agency, we don't work with clients unless they allow us to use Cloudflare. It's really that good ;-) and necessary for modern websites and apps.
Web Design & SEO Consultant
Bright AdviceManagement Consulting, 1-10 employees
DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean is a powerful tool with respect to the services and pricing that it offers. It is easier than other products and also provides servers that are inexpensive with great performance. DigitalOcean also offers additional add-ons such as additional IP addresses, scheduling of backups, etc. One of the best advantages is that it is efficient and is open source. Although, it is suited for a firm that is looking to cut down cost. Also, it is not suited for an organization where the dev/platform/DBA team is less experienced.

Verified User
Consultant in Finance and Accounting
Accounting Company, 10,001+ employeesPros
Cloudflare
- When you need a FREE and EASY TO SETUP SSL certificate on your page (if you don't have the locked locker icon when opening your page, you need it)
- When you want to obfuscate your webpage's IP (any connection will give the Cloudflare's IP)
- You need to speed up the connection for static content (it will not help database connections or dynamic content)
- IF your DNS isn't good (Cloudflare's DNS is amazing, quick, easy, and works pretty well)
Marketing Specialist
Bezares SAAutomotive, 201-500 employees
DigitalOcean
- DigitalOcean provides some of the best cost-to-value services available
- The DigitalOcean cloud console is very intuitive and easy to navigate
- DigitalOcean has great support for Docker and other dev ops tools like Terraform.
- DigitalOcean iterates quickly and provides cutting edge features for organizations that want to keep up with the latest and greatest dev ops tooling
- DigitalOcean has a great developer community and numerous support docs/tutorials

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Marketing and Advertising Company, 11-50 employeesCons
Cloudflare
- There is a huge jump in price between the mid-tier and enterprise solutions which is hard to justify for smaller businesses, or companies owning many small businesses.
- It is difficult to convert from a CNAME installation back to a DNS based one
- Setting up page-level caching with web workers is counterintuitive for simple websites
Owner
Full Service Full Stack, LLCInformation Technology & Services, 1-10 employees
DigitalOcean
- 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.
Director of Technology
Global Brigades, Inc.Non-Profit Organization Management, 11-50 employees
Pricing Details
Cloudflare
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
$0
Cloudflare Editions & Modules
Edition
Free | Free |
---|---|
Pro | $202 |
Business | $2002 |
Enterprise | Contact sales team |
- none
- per month
- none
Additional Pricing Details
—DigitalOcean
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
$5 Starting Price Per Month
DigitalOcean Editions & Modules
Edition
1GB-16GB | $5.001 |
---|---|
8GB-160GB | $60.001 |
- Starting Price Per Month
Additional Pricing Details
—Likelihood to Renew
Cloudflare
Cloudflare 10.0
Based on 1 answer
No answer on this topic is available.
DigitalOcean
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!
Devops Engineer
Tommy BahamaComputer Software, 1-10 employees
Usability
Cloudflare
Cloudflare 9.0
Based on 1 answer
While there are some parts of the service that can be tricky to implement if you have a very custom site, like holepunching for cache, for the most part, the service works very well out of the box and is easy to use
Online Marketing Director | Business Develoment
National Air WarehouseConsumer Goods, 1-10 employees
DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean 8.6
Based on 6 answers
I honestly can't think of an easier way to set up and maintain your own server. Being able to set up a server in minutes and have fully control is awesome. The UX is incredibly intuitive for first-time users as well so there's no reason to be intimidated when it comes to giving DigitalOcean a shot.
VP of Technology & Human Resources
Quality Ironworks, Inc.Construction, 51-200 employees
Reliability and Availability
Cloudflare
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean 10.0
Based on 2 answers
Have not found a single second of down time myself. Superior availability.
Front-end developer
Velocity PartnersInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Performance
Cloudflare
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean 9.0
Based on 2 answers
Very quick response and high performance, you have to fine tune configurations on your machines though.
Front-end developer
Velocity PartnersInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Support Rating
Cloudflare
Cloudflare 8.5
Based on 54 answers
I (fortunately) have not encountered an issue I deemed severe enough to require me to submit a ticket to support. Most of the time, the problems I have encountered were fixable by simply waiting (as is usual with DNS services); or Googling and perusing their perfectly serviceable documentation and browsing support forums.

Verified User
General Manager in Engineering
Computer Software Company, 1-10 employeesDigitalOcean
DigitalOcean 8.8
Based on 18 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.
Co-Founder / Full Stack Dev
Madness LabsComputer Software, 1-10 employees
Alternatives Considered
Cloudflare
CloudFlare is always innovating fast and adding new interesting solutions to the CDN, DNS, and DDoS problems that keep appearing as the internet grows and matures. Due to network effects, using CloudFlare is easier, faster, and more reliable than the competitors, and their support is super fast. I have used other solutions in previous companies like Akamai but their APIs were not very easy to use and their interfaces were not that friendly, also their CDNs were not as fast to clear the cache.
Product Design/Development Engineer
TransferwiseFinancial Services, 1001-5000 employees
DigitalOcean
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.
Co-Founder/CEO
aspace, Inc.Computer Software, 1-10 employees
Scalability
Cloudflare
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
DigitalOcean
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.
Front-end developer
Velocity PartnersInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Return on Investment
Cloudflare
- Uptime: With Cloudflare's website protection, we have avoided panic-inducing outages and downtime.
- Reduced hosting load: Cloudflare's CDN allows us to use smaller servers and greatly diminish bandwidth usage.
- Reduced domain renewal cost: Most of our domains could be transferred to Cloudflare, where domain renewals are as cheap as possible.
- Increased total website cost: All of Cloudflare's features aren't free, and they increase our monthly overall website cost. The protection and other features are helpful, just not free.

Verified User
Manager in Information Technology
Restaurants Company, 501-1000 employeesDigitalOcean
- 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.
Web Developer
satinflame designHigher Education, 1-10 employees