Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
DigitalOcean
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
DigitalOcean is an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform from the company of the same name headquartered in New York. It is known for its support of managed Kubernetes clusters and “droplets” feature.
$5
Starting Price Per Month
Lumen Edge Private Cloud
Score 7.0 out of 10
N/A
Lumen® Edge Private Cloud helps manage digital workloads and cloud ecosystems at scale. It is used to increase workload performance while accelerating innovation by optimizing latency‑sensitive apps with scalable private cloud computing and storage.N/A
UpCloud
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
UpCloud is a global cloud hosting company offering cloud servers on an hourly billed infrastructure-as-a-service. Their IaaS services include MaxIOPS block storage, their Simple backup service, SDN services, and resource isolation.
$0.09
per month per GB
Pricing
DigitalOceanLumen Edge Private CloudUpCloud
Editions & Modules
1GB-16GB
$5.00
Starting Price Per Month
8GB-160GB
$60.00
Starting Price Per Month
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Private Cloud Storage
€0.085
per month per GB
Block Storage - Standard
€0.085
per month
Block Storage - MaxIOPS
€0.220
per month
SDN Private Networks - Floating IP address
€3.15
per month
Private Cloud Hosts -Standard Nodes
€2,499
per month
Cloud Servers - General Purpose
Starting from €7
per month
GPU Servers
Starting from €1.111
per hour
Cloud Servers - High CPU
Starting from €130
per month
Cloud Servers - Developer
Starting from €3
per month
Cloud Servers - High Memory
Starting from €40
per month
Cloud Servers - Cloud Native
Starting from €12
per month
Relational Databases - 1 Node
Starting from €30
per month
Managed Object Storage
starting from €5
per month 250GB
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
DigitalOceanLumen Edge Private CloudUpCloud
Free Trial
NoNoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsExact prices depend on memory and CPU demands.
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Community Pulse
DigitalOceanLumen Edge Private CloudUpCloud
Considered Multiple Products
DigitalOcean

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Lumen Edge Private Cloud

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UpCloud
Chose UpCloud
We trialed UpCloud to see if it would be better than DigitalOcean but for our needs, it was not. On DigitalOcean once a droplet is created, almost no thought needs to go into maintenance, outages, or other reliability-based issues.
Features
DigitalOceanLumen Edge Private CloudUpCloud
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Product A and Product B
DigitalOcean
9.1
36 Ratings
10% above category average
Lumen Edge Private Cloud
-
Ratings
UpCloud
6.0
1 Ratings
31% below category average
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime9.931 Ratings00 Ratings9.11 Ratings
Dynamic scaling9.932 Ratings00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
Elastic load balancing9.423 Ratings00 Ratings4.51 Ratings
Pre-configured templates10.029 Ratings00 Ratings2.71 Ratings
Monitoring tools9.235 Ratings00 Ratings6.41 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images9.433 Ratings00 Ratings4.51 Ratings
Operating system support8.933 Ratings00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
Security controls8.732 Ratings00 Ratings5.51 Ratings
Automation6.55 Ratings00 Ratings5.51 Ratings
Best Alternatives
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Small Businesses
DigitalOcean Droplets
DigitalOcean Droplets
Score 9.4 out of 10

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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

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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

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SAP on IBM Cloud
SAP on IBM Cloud
Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
DigitalOceanLumen Edge Private CloudUpCloud
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
(36 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
5.5
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(2 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.8
(10 ratings)
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-
(0 ratings)
Availability
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.8
(9 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
10.0
(1 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
DigitalOceanLumen Edge Private CloudUpCloud
Likelihood to Recommend
DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean is perfect for hosting client websites, running marketing tools, and managing media storage with Spaces and CDN. The use of Droplets to quickly launch landing pages or WordPress sites for campaigns is a Godsend. It’s great for fast, cheap, and scalable solutions. But for complex microservices or projects needing strict compliance (like HIPAA), DigitalOcean may not always be the best fit, but that depends heavily on your project.
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Lumen Technologies
CenturyLink Private Cloud is well suited for companies that are smaller and wouldn't have to undergo scaling for a longer time. Apart from that, it does well in almost all categories. It wouldn't actually be useful for bigger companies since the UI is a bit laggy sometimes and usually, it's not advisable for big companies.
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UpCloud
If you're looking for a cost-effective solution then this is a good choice, be sure to keep on top of your balance! The 100% uptime is also a nice addition, although not unique in a cloud hosting service.
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Pros
DigitalOcean
  • DigitalOcean provides some of the best cost-to-value services available
  • The DigitalOcean cloud console is very intuitive and easy to navigate
  • DigitalOcean has great support for Docker and other dev ops tools like Terraform.
  • DigitalOcean iterates quickly and provides cutting edge features for organizations that want to keep up with the latest and greatest dev ops tooling
  • DigitalOcean has a great developer community and numerous support docs/tutorials
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Lumen Technologies
  • robust framework
  • amazing customer support in case you're facing maintenance issues
  • collaborative ability is off the charts
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UpCloud
  • Pricing
  • Ease of use - super easy to manage existing servers and deploy new ones
  • Great customer service
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Cons
DigitalOcean
  • Some products/services available on other Cloud providers aren't available, but they seem to be catching up as they add new products like Managed SQL DBs.
  • While they have FreeBSD droplets (VMs), support for *BSD OSs is limited. I.e. the new monitoring agent only works on Linux.
  • There are no regions available on South America.
  • They don't seem to offer enterprise-level products, even basic ones as Windows Server, MS SQL Server, Oracle products, etc.
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Lumen Technologies
  • UI can be really improved, since it sometimes lags a lot
  • Very few know about the product, so they should advertise a bit more
  • There maybe scaling issues since it's a relatively smaller company compared to its competitors
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UpCloud
  • The billing reports are quite hard to read, could be simplified
  • A control panel function would be useful
  • The re-billing process could be better, not so cut throat if you miss a payment!
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Likelihood to Renew
DigitalOcean
I've been very happy with it for my purposes and I plan to continue to use DigitalOcean for the foreseeable future!
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Lumen Technologies
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UpCloud
No answers on this topic
Usability
DigitalOcean
I honestly can't think of an easier way to set up and maintain your own server. Being able to set up a server in minutes and have fully control is awesome. The UX is incredibly intuitive for first-time users as well so there's no reason to be intimidated when it comes to giving DigitalOcean a shot.
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Lumen Technologies
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UpCloud
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Reliability and Availability
DigitalOcean
Have not found a single second of down time myself. Superior availability.
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Lumen Technologies
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UpCloud
No answers on this topic
Performance
DigitalOcean
Very quick response and high performance, you have to fine tune configurations on your machines though.
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Lumen Technologies
No answers on this topic
UpCloud
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
DigitalOcean
They have always been fast, and the process has been straight-forward. I haven't had to use it enough to be frustrated with it, to be honest, and when I have an issue they fix it. As with all support, I wish it felt more human, but they are doing aces.
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Lumen Technologies
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UpCloud
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean is an inexpensive product as compared to other products available in the market. The UI is easy and the beginner can also understand the UI with the step by step guide. It provides a lot of custom features and the user needs to pay only for what they are using. Amazon has a complex UI and is on the expensive side. DigitalOcean is simple to use and is easily manageable and the servers can easily be set up without additional cost and such.
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Lumen Technologies
It doesn't stack up that well against them, since these are big companies and have huge infrastructures and they provide smooth scaling features. However CenturyLink Private Cloud is a little concise and not many people know about it, so I feel like they should advertise more and try to improve their customer outreach.
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UpCloud
We trialed UpCloud to see if it would be better than DigitalOcean but for our needs, it was not. On DigitalOcean once a droplet is created, almost no thought needs to go into maintenance, outages, or other reliability-based issues.
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Scalability
DigitalOcean
Great scalability, you can start with small plans and move up to premium features at a very good price.
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Lumen Technologies
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UpCloud
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
DigitalOcean
  • Positive - Elastic computer instances make it possible to pay for only for what you need.
  • Positive - Competitive pricing - some of the products that DigitalOcean offers are much cheaper than those offered by competitors.
  • Negative - Having to go to other cloud computing platforms for more specific, advanced services like Computer Vision optimized services, GPU cloud compute instances, etc...
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Lumen Technologies
  • We reduced our cloud hosting costs a lot after switching to CenturyLink Private Cloud
  • Maintenance is very easy since there is documentation available for every part
  • It had some issues with the UI but we can neglect those considering the pricing options they provide.
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UpCloud
  • The low cost means you don't really need to worry about pricing
  • To us as a business it was not as useful as DigitalOcean
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