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DigitalOcean App Platform vs. Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience

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    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

    Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AThe Salesforce Platform is designed for building and deploying scalable cloud applications with managed hardware provisioning and app stacks. Lightning Web Components are used by developers to build reusable UI components.

    $25

    Per User Per Month

    Pricing
    DigitalOcean App PlatformSalesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    Editions & Modules
    Basic
    $5
    per month
    Professional
    $12
    per month
    Starter
    $25.00
    Per User Per Month
    Plus
    $100.00
    Per User Per Month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    DigitalOcean App PlatformSalesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    DigitalOcean App PlatformSalesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    Considered Both Products
    DigitalOcean
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    Salesforce
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    89%
    Would buy again
    25 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    91%
    Delivers good value for the price
    21 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    89%
    Happy with the feature set
    25 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    12 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    82%
    Implementation went as expected
    14 Answers
    Features
    DigitalOcean App PlatformSalesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of DigitalOcean App Platform and Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    Feature
    DigitalOcean App Platform
    6.8
    2 Ratings
    13% below category average
    Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    7.2
    30 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Ease of building user interfaces7.01 Ratings7.030 Ratings
    Scalability4.02 Ratings8.028 Ratings
    Platform management overhead4.02 Ratings8.024 Ratings
    Platform access control4.02 Ratings7.028 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration9.01 Ratings7.028 Ratings
    Development environment creation10.01 Ratings7.025 Ratings
    Development environment replication10.01 Ratings6.023 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification6.01 Ratings7.026 Ratings
    Issue recovery8.01 Ratings6.025 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes6.02 Ratings8.028 Ratings
    Workflow engine capability00 Ratings8.027 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    DigitalOcean App PlatformSalesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.9
    (36 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (9 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.1
    (15 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    DigitalOcean App PlatformSalesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Salesforce
    If you have a large customer base and a large amount of data on each of your customers, it is really strong in creating personalized content that your salespeople can use in their pitch meetings—and then setting up workflows for automated for lifecycle journey creations to automatically go out to customers.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    DigitalOcean
    • Hosting of serverless application
    • Hosting of load balancer
    • Hosting of virtual appliances
    Incentivized
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    Salesforce
    • It has a very smooth integration with Salesforce and third-party tools, ensuring easy tracking of policies and assets.
    • It also has impressive security features like used-based permissions and encrypted data.
    • Everything can be managed from a centralized place which saves a lot of time.
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Salesforce
    • It takes a while before it recognizes bounced emails.
    • We get so many notifications from a single action. Not sure if this can be modified in the settings though.
    • Error messages are sometimes unclear which makes it hard for us to identify the problem.
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    Usability
    DigitalOcean
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce
    It's very good, but it's still living in a little bit in an older design aspect, but I think a lot of it is about to come out, just hasn't quite gotten there yet. Still a little clunky from a you have to know it to know it or you know it to use it. It takes a little bit of training to get into it. It's not quite the, anybody can come in and start using it immediately, type feel.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    DigitalOcean
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce
    I am not an administrator so there may very well be outstanding Support and I am just not privy to it. On a user level it's hard to gauge the effectiveness and responsiveness of Support because nearly everything has to go through an administrator
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Salesforce
    We were previously using an older version prior to it becoming Salesforce Lightning Platform so we were well adverse on the advantages of using a CRM, to begin with. It made sense to convert to Salesforce Lightning Platform after we were given a free trial of the platform. Certain reps were chosen to experiment with it and from there a decision was made to move forward. We've been customers ever since.
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Salesforce
    • Better visibility of Accounts and Contacts interactions makes it easier to maintain during employee transitions.
    • Tracking of current jobs and relating them to past jobs is very useful.
    • More efficient use of Sales Reps time.
    • Sales Managers have good visibility into how their people are working.
    Incentivized
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