DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean

127 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 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? Verified User Engineer Chose DigitalOcean DigitalOcean's dead simple pricing and solid but basic feature set combine for a no-nonsense way to get your product shipped. Its API makes it nicely scriptable/automate-able compared to traditional shared hosting providers like Dreamhost. I think it compares most closely with … Incentivized Helpful? Joey Yax Web Developer Chose DigitalOcean Linode was my long time go-to and we still have several sites hosted and maintained on their servers. Initially, I was skeptical of DigitalOcean's pricing, but they've proven to be an excellent alternative. Linode is more mature in their toolset, but both are really great … Incentivized Helpful? Edward Larkey Linux System Administrator Chose DigitalOcean It was the right balance of cost, ease of use, and support. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Partner Chose DigitalOcean I started with Linode, but switched to DigitalOcean. when it had a lower price point and used SSDs. Now the pricing is the same and both use SSDs. Incentivized Helpful? Cameron Banga Project manager, designer and co-founder Chose DigitalOcean DigitalOcean easily has the most flexibility, best pricing, and best ease of use, of the competitors we had used. Rackspace offers better engineer access and support, but this comes at a very significant cost. Heroku offers a cloud container system, which has less maintenance, … Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro Easy to use Pro Ease of use Pro Setting up
Top Cons	Minus Cloud providers Minus Ms sql Minus Drive space

Features

DigitalOcean

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Product A and Product B
	DigitalOcean 8.2 31 Ratings 1% above category average
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime	9.026 Ratings
Dynamic scaling	8.228 Ratings
Elastic load balancing	7.220 Ratings
Pre-configured templates	9.325 Ratings
Monitoring tools	7.730 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images	8.729 Ratings
Operating system support	7.729 Ratings
Security controls	7.728 Ratings
Automation	8.02 Ratings

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User Ratings
	DigitalOcean
Likelihood to Recommend	8.6 (31 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.0 (2 ratings)
Usability	8.6 (6 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 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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous 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 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. Incentivized Fedor Paretsky Co-Founder/CEO 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 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. Incentivized Jeanine Schoessler Web Developer Read full review
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