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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    DigitalOcean Droplets

    Score9.7 out of 10
    N/ADigitalOcean'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

    IBM Cloud Private

    Score9.6 out of 10
    N/AIBM Cloud Private is a Kubernetes-based container platform allowing users to build cloud-native applications on their own infrastructure. In addition, it offers common services for self-service deployment, monitoring, logging and security, as well as middleware, data and analytics.N/A
    Pricing
    DigitalOcean DropletsIBM Cloud Private
    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
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    DigitalOcean DropletsIBM Cloud Private
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsPricing for DigitalOcean Droplets varies depending on the size of the virtual environment and the associated data needs.—
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    Community Pulse
    DigitalOcean DropletsIBM Cloud Private
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    DigitalOcean
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    IBM
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    8 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    8 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    88%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    7 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    88%
    Implementation went as expected
    7 Answers
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    Features
    DigitalOcean DropletsIBM Cloud Private
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of DigitalOcean Droplets and IBM Cloud Private
    Feature
    DigitalOcean Droplets
    8.8
    1 Ratings
    6% above category average
    IBM Cloud Private
    -
    Ratings
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Monitoring tools10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Operating system support10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security controls10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automation10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of DigitalOcean Droplets and IBM Cloud Private
    Feature
    DigitalOcean Droplets
    -
    Ratings
    IBM Cloud Private
    9.7
    5 Ratings
    23% above category average
    Ease of building user interfaces00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
    Scalability00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Platform management overhead00 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    Workflow engine capability00 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    Platform access control00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    Development environment creation00 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    Development environment replication00 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    Issue recovery00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
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    DigitalOcean DropletsIBM Cloud Private
    Small Businesses
    IBM Cloud Object Storage
    Score9 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Foundry
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    Score8.7 out of 10
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SAP on IBM Cloud
    Score9 out of 10
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    DigitalOcean DropletsIBM Cloud Private
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (8 ratings)
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    DigitalOcean DropletsIBM Cloud Private
    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.
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    IBM
    IBM Cloud Private is an ideal platform for companies to accelerate their business growth. It helps in reducing the cost of IT and operations while delivering a great customer experience. With IBM Cloud Private, you can gain agility and security with a flexible hybrid model that fits your needs. It's highly recommended to my colleagues from me.
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    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
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    IBM
    • Capacity On Demand to scale up and down environments
    • SaaS model allows our team to have less involvement in managing or controlling the underlying cloud infrastructure including network, servers, operating systems, storage, or even individual application capabilities.
    • SaaS model allows our team to worry less about upgrades, fix packs, environment support etc.
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    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.
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    IBM
    • Bluemix/IBM Cloud UI can be better
    • Changing Brand name from Bluemix to IBM Cloud, as we are habituated to Bluemix more
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    Usability
    DigitalOcean
    Other platforms dashboard console is more difficult to use. DigitalOcean's dashboard is clean, simple, and straightforward
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    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    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.
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    IBM
    With VMware cloud, each VMware Cloud customer must have an SDDC account(VMC) as well as a general AWS account. The two accounts must be linked for the service to work which is a tiresome thing to do for some clients but with IBM Cloud Private all these issues are solved.
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    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
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    IBM
    • IBM Cloud has helped us start using the cloud and migrating old services to the cloud.
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