DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean

140 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
DigitalOcean	Score 8.5 out of 10	N/A	DigitalOcean is an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform from the company of the same name headquartered in New York. It is known for its support of managed Kubernetes clusters and “droplets” feature.	$5 Starting Price Per Month

Pricing

DigitalOcean

Editions & Modules

1GB-16GB: $5.00
Starting Price Per Month
8GB-160GB: $60.00
Starting Price Per Month

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
DigitalOcean
Free Trial
No
Free/Freemium Version
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Community Pulse
	DigitalOcean
Considered Both Products	DigitalOcean Verified User Engineer Chose DigitalOcean DigitalOcean is cheaper and more flexible than DreamHost, but DreamHost is easier to maintain than DigitalOcean. DigitalOcean has many more server options and templates/images than DreamHost. Amazon Web Services is much more confusing to use. The DigitalOcean website is much … Incentivized Helpful? Vinaya Kumar B Engineering Lead Chose DigitalOcean The target segment of DigitalOcean is application developers and small teams working in startups for easily configuring and deploying infrastructure in the cloud. We selected DigitalOcean for some of our usecases as it is cost effective and easy to integrate with compared to … Incentivized Helpful? Jan Saggiori Director Chose DigitalOcean Simple, and quick setup, competitive pricing as well as geographically you can choose the location of the datacenter. The setup of the machine with RAM / CPU and SDD gives all options, it is just what we always needed and find our self very well with such type of service by … Helpful? Fernando Orozco CTO Chose DigitalOcean I chose DigitalOcean over Oracle Cloud because it's simpler, more cost-effective, and quicker to deploy. DigitalOcean’s intuitive interface allows me to manage servers easily, while Oracle Cloud is more complex and suited for larger enterprises. Also, DigitalOcean’s transparent … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Consultant Chose DigitalOcean DigitalOcean is an inexpensive product as compared to other products available in the market. The UI is easy and the beginner can also understand the UI with the step by step guide. It provides a lot of custom features and the user needs to pay only for what they are using. … Incentivized Helpful? AS Antoine St-Pierre Digital Automation Manager Chose DigitalOcean DigitalOcean is really one of the cheapest options out there for dedicated servers. Plus, their pay-per-use pricing helps companies to grow at their own pace without having to pay for a higher performance or service they don't need initially. Their platform is well built and … Incentivized Helpful? Marco Carnevali VP Products Chose DigitalOcean DigitalOcean is an easier and cheaper way to [set up] new machines. The UX is really good and it's easy to find what you need. Competition offer[s] a complicated way to manage machines and the cost is sometimes more than [...] double of what DigitalOcean offer[s]. However[,] … Incentivized Helpful? Praneeth Karnena Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief Chose DigitalOcean Vultr is a new player in the game. They don't advertise their hardware model and for that reason, people may not trust them. I have run few benchmarks on Vultr, they performed slightly better than DigitalOcean but they aren't trustworthy. Their transparency index is very low … Incentivized Helpful? Leonel Quinteros Director of Technology Chose DigitalOcean Digital Ocean is easier to start with and was a great choice for that project. On other projects, I may choose Google Cloud products because of their more complex product offerings and advanced features. Products like Storage or Pub/Sub isn't available on Digital Ocean and the … Incentivized Helpful? Bobby Johnson Co-Founder / Full Stack Dev Chose DigitalOcean As I have said, DigitalOcean was slightly more expensive than something like HostGator, but the amount of customization and quality of service make it worth any difference. AWS was always a pain to set up and use, but DigitalOcean makes it cake. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose DigitalOcean DigitalOcean is not quite as simple as Heroku to get up and running, but it provides a better price point and more configurability. However, in my opinion it's much simpler to get up and running with than AWS OpsWorks and even Google App Engine. It also provides a better price … Incentivized Helpful? Chris Widner VP of Technology & Human Resources Chose DigitalOcean I've tried both AWS and Azure and, while they're both great solutions, they are much more challenging to setup and maintain. The idea that my billing could spike because of something unexpected leaves me a tad uneasy. For our solutions I'd rather pay the $10/mo with … Incentivized Helpful? Brandon Mullins CEO Chose DigitalOcean DigitalOcean and ServerPilot work extremely well together. As for other hosting solutions I feel like I have moved on to the best choice available with DigitalOcean. Times change, and DigitalOcean just feels like the next step in the evolution of hosting providers and I for one … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose DigitalOcean DigitalOcean can be seen more like a Rackspace or a similar provider. They aren't offering more extended services such as AWS Redshift of something on a larger scale. They are great for just vanilla virtualization and maintaining uptime for those resources across a large set of … Helpful? Fedor Paretsky Co-Founder/CEO Chose 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Tarun Mangukiya Co-Founder Chose DigitalOcean Initially we started using DigitalOcean due to their pricing point as we were in development phase. Slowly when we used it, we starting liking it a lot as it is very fast & easy to get started, compared to the other Cloud Providers we've used. Also they have blogs and … Helpful? Jeanine Schoessler Web Developer Chose DigitalOcean Site5's customer service and support have declined over the recent years. The last couple of tickets that I submitted in 2016 were never addressed by their help team. The only customer service agent seems to be on their Twitter account. Site5 does not allow any configuration of … Incentivized Helpful? Chris Putnam Senior Web Developer Chose DigitalOcean DigitalOcean has a much lower price point for VPS - but they are not fully managed as with other services. DigitalOcean VPSs are good for quick simple applications that we are comfortable and efficient at deploying ourselves. We do not generally recommend them for clients, as … Incentivized Helpful? Craig Nash Sr. Network Engineer Chose DigitalOcean Compared service to service, Digitalocean comes out on top usually, for smaller better spec servers. This is what they do, and specialty shops are always the best route, with no exception here. However, if you need more than a server, or are not comfortable doing more than … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose DigitalOcean Cheaper than Heroku which is prohibitively expensive for a small self-funded startup. We quickly outgrew their free tier and migrated to DigitalOcean. AWS is more feature complete however, we found its maintenance overly confusing and not as well thought out. For many use cases … Incentivized Helpful? Tyler Longren IT Consultant Chose DigitalOcean DigitalOcean isn't nearly as robust as Google Cloud. DigitalOcean provides VPSs, as does Google Cloud. However, Google Cloud offers many other products as well. ChunkHost is very similar to DigitalOcean, but doesn't have the infrastructure that DigitalOcean has. Geographical … Incentivized Helpful? Hernán Silva Front-end developer Chose DigitalOcean AWS: Too complex to set things up. Period. Mediatemple: Great features, services and customer service. Prices are a bit high for what they offer. Linode: Outstanding features and customer support. Difficult to start with for novice users. Incentivized Helpful? Chris Gabriel Interactive Designer & Developer Chose DigitalOcean My cost savings were significant and I felt like I was much more in control of the hardware and processes. I also had issues with certain marketing decisions my former hosting company made, DigitalOcean was an easy choice! Incentivized Helpful?

Features

DigitalOcean

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Product A and Product B
	DigitalOcean 9.0 36 Ratings 9% above category average
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime	9.831 Ratings
Dynamic scaling	9.832 Ratings
Elastic load balancing	9.223 Ratings
Pre-configured templates	10.029 Ratings
Monitoring tools	9.335 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images	9.333 Ratings
Operating system support	8.933 Ratings
Security controls	8.732 Ratings
Automation	6.45 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	DigitalOcean
Small Businesses	DigitalOcean Droplets Score 9.4 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	SAP on IBM Cloud Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises	SAP on IBM Cloud Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
	DigitalOcean
Likelihood to Recommend	8.8 (36 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.0 (2 ratings)
Usability	8.8 (10 ratings)
Availability	10.0 (1 ratings)
Performance	9.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	8.8 (9 ratings)
Product Scalability	10.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	DigitalOcean
Likelihood to Recommend	DigitalOcean DigitalOcean is perfect for hosting client websites, running marketing tools, and managing media storage with Spaces and CDN. The use of Droplets to quickly launch landing pages or WordPress sites for campaigns is a Godsend. It’s great for fast, cheap, and scalable solutions. But for complex microservices or projects needing strict compliance (like HIPAA), DigitalOcean may not always be the best fit, but that depends heavily on your project. Incentivized Fernando Orozco CTO Read full review
Pros	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 Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	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. Incentivized Leonel Quinteros Director of Technology Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	DigitalOcean I've been very happy with it for my purposes and I plan to continue to use DigitalOcean for the foreseeable future! Incentivized Creede Lambard Devops Engineer Read full review
Usability	DigitalOcean 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. Incentivized Chris Widner VP of Technology & Human Resources Read full review
Reliability and Availability	DigitalOcean Have not found a single second of down time myself. Superior availability. Incentivized Hernán Silva Front-end developer Read full review
Performance	DigitalOcean Very quick response and high performance, you have to fine tune configurations on your machines though. Incentivized Hernán Silva Front-end developer Read full review
Support Rating	DigitalOcean 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. Incentivized Bobby Johnson Co-Founder / Full Stack Dev Read full review
Alternatives Considered	DigitalOcean DigitalOcean is an inexpensive product as compared to other products available in the market. The UI is easy and the beginner can also understand the UI with the step by step guide. It provides a lot of custom features and the user needs to pay only for what they are using. Amazon has a complex UI and is on the expensive side. DigitalOcean is simple to use and is easily manageable and the servers can easily be set up without additional cost and such. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Scalability	DigitalOcean Great scalability, you can start with small plans and move up to premium features at a very good price. Incentivized Hernán Silva Front-end developer Read full review
Return on Investment	DigitalOcean Positive - Elastic computer instances make it possible to pay for only for what you need. Positive - Competitive pricing - some of the products that DigitalOcean offers are much cheaper than those offered by competitors. Negative - Having to go to other cloud computing platforms for more specific, advanced services like Computer Vision optimized services, GPU cloud compute instances, etc... Incentivized Fedor Paretsky Co-Founder/CEO Read full review
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