DigitalOcean Droplets vs. Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)

DigitalOcean Droplets

Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
DigitalOcean Droplets	Score 9.7 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
Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)	Score 6.1 out of 10	N/A	Red Hat Virtualization (formerly Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, broadly known as RHEV) is an enterprise level server and desktop virtualization solution. Red Hat Virtualization also contains the functionality of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktop in later editions of the platform.	$999 Per Year Per Hypervisor

Pricing

DigitalOcean Droplets

Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)

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

Standard: $999.00
Per Year Per Hypervisor
Premium: $1,499.00
Per Year Per Hypervisor

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
DigitalOcean Droplets	Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
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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More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	DigitalOcean Droplets	Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
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?	Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued) NS Naveen Sharma Consultant Chose Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued) Red Hat Virtualization is the best enterprise-level virtualization software for an organization that needs cost-effective and flexible solutions for its environment. We can easily integrate RHEV with other Red Hat software like OpenStack...etc. RHEV is highly customizable … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued) RHV has the following advantages: They have relatively cheaper subscriptions compared to others. With the future going to Openstack and containerization migrating to KVM-based virtualization will be easier to migrate to future products. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued) Compared to oVirt, RHEV is more stable but has fewer capabilities. ESX is far more difficult to automate. Incentivized Helpful? Emile Swarts Developer Chose Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued) Red Hat Enterprise is more expensive but better supported when it comes to support. Amazon WorkSpaces had more online documentation and resources to scan through. Incentivized Helpful? Matthew J. Fitzpatrick President/CEO Chose Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued) RHEV is an excellent product, includes more features, is less expensive, and has rock solid reliability and is backed with the best Red Hat Support in the industry. RHEV uses KVM under the hood which is used by all the big players in the industry (AWS, Rackspace, etc) to lower … Incentivized Helpful? Valentin Höbel Senior Consultant IT Infrastructure Chose Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued) RHEV offers a decent GUI and many management features, such as an API. Incentivized Helpful? IN Ian Neveu Cloud Services Engineer Chose Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued) We use them both, as one is not better than the other at all facets required. There is still a need to use both products, as we have not fully switched to RHEV due to Vsphere still having an edge over them with edits available to the systems while they are operational or they … Incentivized Helpful? Charles Inglese Senior System Engineer Chose Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued) VMware ESXi is a more mature technology, as it has been around for a longer period of time. However, automating ESXi installations requires hacking OEM media and an intense amount of knowledge of how ESXi operates under the hood. The WebUI and associated functionality for ESXi … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued) Pretty much Open Source sums it up. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued) RHEV is more stable than ovirt but less capability. Much easier to automate than esx Incentivized Helpful?

Features

DigitalOcean Droplets

Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Product A and Product B
	DigitalOcean Droplets 8.8 Ratings 6% above category average	Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued) - Ratings
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Dynamic scaling	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Elastic load balancing	5.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Pre-configured templates	5.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Monitoring tools	10.00 Ratings	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

Server Virtualization

Comparison of Server Virtualization features of Product A and Product B
	DigitalOcean Droplets - Ratings	Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued) 7.7 Ratings 4% below category average
Virtual machine automated provisioning	00 Ratings	7.90 Ratings
Management console	00 Ratings	7.30 Ratings
Live virtual machine backup	00 Ratings	7.20 Ratings
Live virtual machine migration	00 Ratings	6.90 Ratings
Hypervisor-level security	00 Ratings	8.90 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	DigitalOcean Droplets	Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
Small Businesses	Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Score 8.9 out of 10	DigitalOcean Droplets Score 9.7 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	SAP on IBM Cloud Score 9.0 out of 10	VMware vSOM (discontinued) Score 10.0 out of 10
Enterprises	SAP on IBM Cloud Score 9.0 out of 10	VMware vSOM (discontinued) Score 10.0 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	DigitalOcean Droplets	Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (0 ratings)	6.6 (0 ratings)
Usability	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	DigitalOcean Droplets	Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
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	Red Hat Virtualization is suitable for small implementation and hosting VMs. However, when you start asking for additional features or enhancements, the engineering team is not the flexible as other engineering teams in Red Hat. It is very likely they will not accept adding features or in the best case. They wouldn't commit to a plan when it is possible to be available. 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	RHV issues/bugs can be reported via Bugzilla to RH support. The service is great and typically responds soon. Red Hat distribution integration is seamless as it is integrated into the kernel. OpenStack support enables more customized VM templates and network configuration control. 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	Documentation of RHEV needs more improvement. RHEV GUI needs a lot of improvements in some versions of RHEV, GUI will not work properly (shows incorrect details of VM ). Need fast rollout of patch releases. Need good linux Knowledge to manage the RHEVM. Incentivized NS Naveen Sharma Consultant 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	Red Hat Virtualization is the best enterprise-level virtualization software for an organization that needs cost-effective and flexible solutions for its environment. We can easily integrate RHEV with other Red Hat software like OpenStack...etc. RHEV is highly customizable software, which helps us to customize our environment. Since RHEV is an open-source tool, we can install it on any hardware. There is no proprietary dependency. Incentivized NS Naveen Sharma Consultant 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	It has had an extremely positive impact on my overall business and has allowed me to utilize and leverage it as an offering to my clients. It's an extremely solid, robust, and reliable product built off of KVM Virtualization technology. Less expensive solution than VMware and includes more features! Incentivized Matthew J. Fitzpatrick President/CEO Read full review
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