DigitalOcean Droplets vs. Navisite Managed Infrastructure Services (NaviCloud)

DigitalOcean Droplets

Navisite Managed Infrastructure Services (NaviCloud)

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
DigitalOcean Droplets	Score 9.6 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
Navisite Managed Infrastructure Services (NaviCloud)	Score 7.0 out of 10	N/A	NaviSite boasts flexible and scalable managed services that provide 24x7x365 monitoring and support for any environment a business selects—whether it’s on-premises, in the cloud or hybrid. Their managed infrastructure services include managed infrastructure and hosting, data center colocation services, as well as disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS). Navisite services include those under the former RDX brand, which separated from Charter Communications (as part of the Spectrum Enterprise…	N/A

Pricing

DigitalOcean Droplets

Navisite Managed Infrastructure Services (NaviCloud)

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 Droplets	Navisite Managed Infrastructure Services (NaviCloud)
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	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.

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Community Pulse
	DigitalOcean Droplets	Navisite Managed Infrastructure Services (NaviCloud)
Considered Both Products	DigitalOcean Droplets Verified User Anonymous 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 Anonymous 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? Verified User Anonymous 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?	Navisite Managed Infrastructure Services (NaviCloud) Verified User Anonymous Chose Navisite Managed Infrastructure Services (NaviCloud) Navisite's rates were better and they seemed to have more SQL Server expertise. This was about 5 years ago and it may not be the case anymore Incentivized Helpful?

Features

DigitalOcean Droplets

Navisite Managed Infrastructure Services (NaviCloud)

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Product A and Product B
	DigitalOcean Droplets 8.8 Ratings 7% above category average	Navisite Managed Infrastructure Services (NaviCloud) 8.0 Ratings 3% below category average
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime	10.00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Dynamic scaling	10.00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Elastic load balancing	5.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Pre-configured templates	5.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Monitoring tools	10.00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Operating system support	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Security controls	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Automation	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	DigitalOcean Droplets	Navisite Managed Infrastructure Services (NaviCloud)
Small Businesses	Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Score 8.8 out of 10	DigitalOcean Droplets Score 9.6 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	SAP on IBM Cloud Score 9.0 out of 10	SAP on IBM Cloud Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises	SAP on IBM Cloud Score 9.0 out of 10	SAP on IBM Cloud Score 9.0 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	DigitalOcean Droplets	Navisite Managed Infrastructure Services (NaviCloud)
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (0 ratings)	7.0 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	DigitalOcean Droplets	Navisite Managed Infrastructure Services (NaviCloud)
Likelihood to Recommend	There are some other platforms that compete with DigitalOcean Droplets that have more performant servers for a very minimal price decrease. However, DigitalOcean's servers still have great performance, and the experience is better when you consider the developer console, managed options, and uptime that DigitalOcean offers. DigitalOcean is the better all-around package. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Clarify before hand any additional charges for remote hand and arrangement/SLA for remote hand. Negotiate well on these terms as they tend to be more flexible around this. Clarify shipping and handling charges if any. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	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	Remote hand services often pretty responsive and good follow through Shipping and handling was never an issue at Navisite facility for our hardware orders Managed services were also very competent to address issues within short amount of time Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	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	Not very pro-active outside of monitoring Previous account rep was not customer focused The ticketing system they use, Proximity can be flaky. Sometimes, do not receive ticket updates Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	No answers on this topic	Price and facility equipment, location of the hosting facility factor into the decision to renew Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	Other platforms dashboard console is more difficult to use. DigitalOcean's dashboard is clean, simple, and straightforward Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	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 LA Laila Abouizza Backend Developer Read full review	Navisite's rates were better and they seemed to have more SQL Server expertise. This was about 5 years ago and it may not be the case anymore Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	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	Cost savings by not having a full-time DBA on staff - saving of at least 50K a year Data team not on call 24/7 Navisite team will try to fix issue if possible - e.g. shrink log files that have grown Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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