DigitalOcean vs. Navisite Managed Infrastructure Services (NaviCloud)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
DigitalOcean
Score 8.3 out of 10
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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
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
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Editions & Modules
1GB-16GB
$5.00
Starting Price Per Month
8GB-160GB
$60.00
Starting Price Per Month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
DigitalOceanNavisite Managed Infrastructure Services (NaviCloud)
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Top Pros
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Features
DigitalOceanNavisite Managed Infrastructure Services (NaviCloud)
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Product A and Product B
DigitalOcean
8.2
31 Ratings
1% above category average
Navisite Managed Infrastructure Services (NaviCloud)
8.0
1 Ratings
2% below category average
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime9.026 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Dynamic scaling8.228 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Elastic load balancing7.220 Ratings00 Ratings
Pre-configured templates9.325 Ratings00 Ratings
Monitoring tools7.730 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images8.729 Ratings00 Ratings
Operating system support7.729 Ratings00 Ratings
Security controls7.728 Ratings00 Ratings
Automation8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
DigitalOceanNavisite Managed Infrastructure Services (NaviCloud)
Likelihood to Recommend
8.6
(31 ratings)
7.0
(2 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(2 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
8.6
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Availability
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.8
(9 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
DigitalOceanNavisite Managed Infrastructure Services (NaviCloud)
Likelihood to Recommend
DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean is a powerful tool with respect to the services and pricing that it offers. It is easier than other products and also provides servers that are inexpensive with great performance. DigitalOcean also offers additional add-ons such as additional IP addresses, scheduling of backups, etc. One of the best advantages is that it is efficient and is open source. Although, it is suited for a firm that is looking to cut down cost. Also, it is not suited for an organization where the dev/platform/DBA team is less experienced.
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NaviSite
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.
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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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NaviSite
  • 24/7 monitoring
  • Immediate notification in the event of failures
  • Dedicated Senior DBA
  • Dedicate Account rep
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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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NaviSite
  • San Jose facility power outage caused damage to company's credibility, this should not occur again being 7x24 facility and backup generator
  • Avoiding too many management changes will help create good connection with individuals for sustained harmony
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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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NaviSite
Price and facility equipment, location of the hosting facility factor into the decision to renew
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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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NaviSite
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Reliability and Availability
DigitalOcean
Have not found a single second of down time myself. Superior availability.
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NaviSite
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Performance
DigitalOcean
Very quick response and high performance, you have to fine tune configurations on your machines though.
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NaviSite
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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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NaviSite
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Alternatives Considered
DigitalOcean
Amazon has a very complex UI and many products to offer. They haven't polished up their UI and it has a much greater learning curve compared to DigitalOcean. However, Amazon Web Services (AWS) does have more comprehensive cloud computing services, which forces some companies to migrate their backend and other services to AWS as they scale up.
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NaviSite
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
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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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NaviSite
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Return on Investment
DigitalOcean
  • With DigitalOcean, I've been able to move all my sites to https using my own implementations of SSL with LetsEncrypt.
  • Since moving my sites to DigitalOcean, my hosting plan costs less than 40% of what I paid for similar hosting from Site5.
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NaviSite
  • 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
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