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DigitalOcean App Platform vs. DigitalOcean Functions

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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    DigitalOcean App Platform

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AThe 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.

    $5

    per month

    DigitalOcean Functions

    N/AN/ADigitalOcean Functions is a serverless computing solution that runs on-demand, enabling users to focus on code, scale instantly with confidence, and save costs by eliminating the need to maintain servers. Users can invoke functions (snippets of code) in response to web events, and are charged when resources are active, or scale up or down instantly and automatically based on demand without the need for pre-provisioned resources.N/A
    Pricing
    DigitalOcean App PlatformDigitalOcean Functions
    Editions & Modules
    Basic
    $5
    per month
    Professional
    $12
    per month
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    DigitalOcean App PlatformDigitalOcean Functions
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    DigitalOcean App PlatformDigitalOcean Functions
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of DigitalOcean App Platform and DigitalOcean Functions
    Feature
    DigitalOcean App Platform
    6.8
    2 Ratings
    13% below category average
    DigitalOcean Functions
    -
    Ratings
    Ease of building user interfaces7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scalability4.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform management overhead4.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform access control4.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Development environment creation10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Development environment replication10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Issue recovery8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes6.02 Ratings00 Ratings
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    DigitalOcean App PlatformDigitalOcean Functions
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    Score6.5 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
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    Score9.6 out of 10
    AWS Lambda
    Score8.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    Score8.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    DigitalOcean App PlatformDigitalOcean Functions
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    DigitalOcean App PlatformDigitalOcean Functions
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    DigitalOcean
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    Pros
    DigitalOcean
    • Hosting of serverless application
    • Hosting of load balancer
    • Hosting of virtual appliances
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    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
    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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    DigitalOcean
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    Return on Investment
    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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    DigitalOcean
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