DigitalOcean Droplets

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
DigitalOcean Droplets	Score 9.4 out of 10	N/A	DigitalOcean's Droplets is designed to help the user spin up a virtual machine in just 55 seconds. Standard, General Purpose, CPU-Optimized, or Memory-Optimized configurations provide flexibility to build, test, and grow an app from startup to scale.	$4 per month

Pricing

Editions & Modules

Basic: $4
per month
CPU-Optimized: $42
per month
General Purpose: $63
per month
Memory-Optimized: $84
per month
Storage-Optimized: $131
per month

Offerings

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

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

Pricing for DigitalOcean Droplets varies depending on the size of the virtual environment and the associated data needs.

More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	DigitalOcean Droplets
Considered Both Products	DigitalOcean Droplets Verified User Team Lead Chose DigitalOcean Droplets Vultr had better performance in some instances but overall the dashboard was a mess to use a lot of times. When you zoom out from server performance and price, DigitalOcean offered more useful features, and the API was more consistent in some of the use cases we needed. Incentivized Helpful? Prashant Chaudhari Head of Engineering & Founding team member Chose DigitalOcean Droplets Cost is much lesser Interface is very easy to use Documentation is readily available for most of the usecases. Incentivized Helpful? Anuj Rai Senior Associate Technology Chose DigitalOcean Droplets The reason for selecting digital ocean was since we require a cloud solution for testing applications internally without being bothered about servers needing to be deployed in different geographical locations. As Droplets can be deployed very easily and boot faster than any … Incentivized Helpful? LA Laila Abouizza Backend Developer Chose DigitalOcean Droplets DigitalOcean Droplets has more advanced options and the devs at our team are extremely geeky and they prefer to have full control on the server via SSH rather than cPanel. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Technician Chose DigitalOcean Droplets Both Linode and DigitalOcean Droplets perform about the same and cost about the same. However we prefer the DigitalOcean Droplets interface, and the Cloud Firewall service is a must for us. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Director Chose DigitalOcean Droplets DigitalOcean Droplets is continuously evolving to be more and more powerful. It has great features and has low cost options, which is really great for developers. Its CDN, Loadbalancer, etc. make it a good place to host a high-traffic application. Moroever, DigitalOcean … Incentivized Helpful?

Features

DigitalOcean Droplets

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Product A and Product B
	DigitalOcean Droplets 8.8 1 Ratings 7% above category average
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime	10.01 Ratings
Dynamic scaling	10.01 Ratings
Elastic load balancing	5.01 Ratings
Pre-configured templates	5.01 Ratings
Monitoring tools	10.01 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images	9.01 Ratings
Operating system support	10.01 Ratings
Security controls	10.01 Ratings
Automation	10.01 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	DigitalOcean Droplets
Small Businesses	Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Score 8.9 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 Droplets
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (8 ratings)
Usability	10.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	DigitalOcean Droplets
Likelihood to Recommend	DigitalOcean DigitalOcean Droplets are the best choice for developers teams that need reliable Linux servers to deploy their projects, the ability to create a droplet for testing purposes then destroy it, and only get charged for the few hours used makes the chances of messing up very slim. DigitalOcean Droplets is a great solution because the servers are scalable and the process of adding more resources like CPU or RAM to an existing droplet takes only a few minutes and once a server is scaled up it can also be scaled down if necessary which is perfect for supporting a temporary peak in traffic for example. Incentivized LA Laila Abouizza Backend Developer Read full review
Pros	DigitalOcean Simplicity to scale services--the interface is very quick and effective to use Reliability--this is key for us, as any downtime effects our reputation Keeps the costs down--hosting our own equivalent infrastructure would cost a lot more Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	DigitalOcean In terms of an availability zone, they have limitations not available in most of the geographical locations. No live support is available which can cause problem if you have outage. Number of service is quite limited. Incentivized Anuj Rai Senior Associate Technology Read full review
Usability	DigitalOcean Other platforms dashboard console is more difficult to use. DigitalOcean's dashboard is clean, simple, and straightforward Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	DigitalOcean DigitalOcean Droplets is continuously evolving to be more and more powerful. It has great features and has low cost options, which is really great for developers. Its CDN, Loadbalancer, etc. make it a good place to host a high-traffic application. Moroever, DigitalOcean Droplets has a nonprofit program that helps nonprofit sites to run their infrastructure, which is tremendous and no competitor of DigitalOcean Droplets does that. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	DigitalOcean Digital Ocean has been great helping us move web apps to the cloud Digital Ocean has been really helpful when hiring contractors The interface could use some work, but overall its not terrible Incentivized Tom Blazek IT Manager Read full review
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