#1 most frequent
Germany
22.2%2 installations of 9
What is DigitalOcean App Platform?
The DigitalOcean App Platform enables developers to build, deploy, and scale apps on what they describe as a simple, fully managed PaaS.
Users of the former Nanobox, acquired by DigitalOcean in 2019, have been migrated to the App Platform upon Nanobox's end of life in March 2021.
Categories & Use Cases
Top Performing Features
Development environment creation
Ease of creating new development environments
Category average: 8.1
Development environment replication
Ease of replicating new development environments
Category average: 7.9
Services-enabled integration
Ability to integrate with cloud applications and data via APIs and pre-built connectors
Category average: 8
Areas for Improvement
Scalability
Ease of scaling up or down to meet demand
Category average: 8.3
Platform management overhead
Resources required to keep platform up and running
Category average: 7.7
Platform access control
Rules controlling what data different user categories can access
Category average: 7.7
Who Buys & Uses DigitalOcean App Platform
#2 most frequent
India
22.2%2 installations of 9
#3 most frequent
United States of America
22.2%2 installations of 9
Hosting at a cheap cost
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We used the DigitalOcean platform to host our SCIM bridge serverless hosting for another security product. The security product itself had limitation on providing the user automation features via SCIM and hence required a virtual appliance to be the bridge before SCIM can be enabled. We had selected DigitalOcean because of the easy setup and costing over other hosting provider.
Pros
- Hosting of serverless application
- Hosting of load balancer
- Hosting of virtual appliances
Cons
- None
Most Important Features
- Easy of use
- Costing
Return on Investment
- It is the cheapest hosting service you can get.
Alternatives Considered
Cisco Hybrid Cloud Platform for Google Cloud
Other Software Used
OpsGenie, PitchBook, Owler
Nanobox, Focus on code, not operations.
Pros
- Relatively easy setup. One file named "boxfile.xml" controls all relevant services including there communication ports, routes and build steps.
- Scaling is easy - you can put everything on one machine, split certain services to dedicated machines and scale services to multiple machines. best of all this can be done at any time with almost zero down time.
- I have not used this yet, but for a few hundred dollars a month you can get dedicated operational services to help you make your setup even easier and ensure your system is operational.
Cons
- The company has not been very communicative as of lately. Not much news, no apparent work on missing features.
- Some components are incomplete as far as some critical features. For example, I use RethinkDB as my database and it's missing critical features like backup and clustering, so It is unusable and they should have made that clear from the get go.
- The pricing on the support plan is vague. I do have the feeling it is actually well worth the money, but it's hard to form a decisions based without more predictable specific.
- Seems to me like the platform's future is unclear.
Return on Investment
- The platform is saving me a lot of time I would have been wasting on operations instead of development.
- The platform is saving me a lot of money as I can easily switch between cloud providers to find the best price.
- I am worried though for the price I might have to pay in case of an unexpected system issue.
- Hopefully I will be able to pay the support plan before that.
Alternatives Considered
Heroku
Other Software Used
Heroku