DigitalOcean Droplets vs. wasmCloud

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting 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
wasmCloud
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
wasmCloud is a dynamic, elastically scalable WebAssembly host runtime for securely connecting actors and capability providers, from Cosmonic headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. Users can build functions and services in WebAssembly and run them anywhere. Functions and services can be built in the language desired and run securely, everywhere. wasmCloud is available free and open source.N/A
Pricing
DigitalOcean DropletswasmCloud
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 DropletswasmCloud
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
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 DropletswasmCloud
Features
DigitalOcean DropletswasmCloud
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
wasmCloud
7.6
6 Ratings
8% below category average
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime10.01 Ratings8.21 Ratings
Dynamic scaling10.01 Ratings7.66 Ratings
Elastic load balancing5.01 Ratings7.96 Ratings
Pre-configured templates5.01 Ratings5.55 Ratings
Monitoring tools10.01 Ratings7.55 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images9.01 Ratings7.74 Ratings
Operating system support10.01 Ratings8.45 Ratings
Security controls10.01 Ratings7.96 Ratings
Automation10.01 Ratings7.54 Ratings
Best Alternatives
DigitalOcean DropletswasmCloud
Small Businesses
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Score 8.9 out of 10
DigitalOcean Droplets
DigitalOcean Droplets
Score 9.4 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
SAP on IBM Cloud
SAP on IBM Cloud
Score 9.0 out of 10
SAP on IBM Cloud
SAP on IBM Cloud
Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises
SAP on IBM Cloud
SAP on IBM Cloud
Score 9.0 out of 10
SAP on IBM Cloud
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
DigitalOcean DropletswasmCloud
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(8 ratings)
8.8
(6 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(1 ratings)
7.4
(6 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.8
(6 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
6.8
(2 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
7.6
(3 ratings)
User Testimonials
DigitalOcean DropletswasmCloud
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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Cosmonic
If you want to start pivoting your legacy code into a serverless paradigm this is the platform to target. If you want to start moving away from walled gardens and back into a space where code isn't centralized, costs can be offset by utilizing customer or edge hardware this is the platform to focus on. If you want a model that will scale well past many of the existing serverless frameworks, that won't get caught up in the security weaknesses of current paradigms this is what you need to invest in. If you want modern code to interact with legacy code in a safe way that doesn't expose vulnerabilities you can't patch against wasmCloud is awesome. If you want to write simple code that can jump from cloud to cloud to the user or edge node check it out!
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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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Cosmonic
  • Host density of workloads
  • Streamlined security approach to writing code and reducing bloat
  • Interoperability of modules written in different languages
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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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Cosmonic
  • Simplified open-source model for on-boarding devs, i.e. bare host no elixir/GUI
  • Home-labbers guide to wasmCloud
  • Spark more community involvement for capability providers
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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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Cosmonic
wasmCloud is still in the early stages of development but the product is rapidly evolving and stabilizing and I feel it will be a preferred way of deploying and managing remote, distributed applications in the future.
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Support Rating
DigitalOcean
No answers on this topic
Cosmonic
The core team is extremely responsive in their provided channels. From slack to github issues, there is never a long wait for feedback or guidance.
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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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Cosmonic
No answers on this topic
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
DigitalOcean
No answers on this topic
Cosmonic
Have not made a purchase yet as we are still in the POC stage.
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Professional Services
DigitalOcean
No answers on this topic
Cosmonic
The team is incredibly helpful and informative about the product - I have not needed to use their professional services thus far.
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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
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Cosmonic
  • WasmCloud has massively simplified the required ops expertise needed to run modern software.
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