#1 most frequent
United States of America
53.1%34 installations of 64
What is DigitalOcean Droplets?
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.
Categories & Use Cases
Top Performing Features
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime
The service uptime as a percentage defined in the SLA
Category average: 8.5
Dynamic scaling
Ease of scaling up or down in response to customer needs
Category average: 8.8
Monitoring tools
Monitoring tools provide alerts when problems are detected
Category average: 7.7
Areas for Improvement
Pre-defined machine images
Range of different server configurations available
Category average: 8.3
Elastic load balancing
Automatic balancing and distribution of resources across multiple virtual computers
Category average: 9
Pre-configured templates
Pre-defined templates for virtual machines
Category average: 7.9
Who Buys & Uses DigitalOcean Droplets
#2 most frequent
Canada
12.5%8 installations of 64
#3 most frequent
India
10.9%7 installations of 64
The best bang for your buck droplet platform
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use DigitalOcean's Droplets to power our web servers for client sites, SaaS platforms, custom app backends, and more. They have been a great option that mixes an easy-to-use deployment options with optimal performance. The dashboard provides access to critical statistics on our servers, allowing us to address any performance issues with one-click upgrades.
Pros
- Easy to launch
- Performant
- Secure
Cons
- Some platforms offer better performance for cheaper servers
Return on Investment
- Only positive - without their great offering at a great price, we wouldn't be able to server our clients and quickly release new products
Usability
Alternatives Considered
Vultr
Other Software Used
Vultr, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Cloudflare
Easier, Cheaper and Performance optimised hosting for developers
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use DO droplets to host our applications. We are SaaS platform which includes more than 30 web applications.
We use Digital Ocean to host some of our services along with manager Load Balancer. We also deploy cloud firewalls to protect these droplets from cyber attacks.
We use Digital Ocean to host some of our services along with manager Load Balancer. We also deploy cloud firewalls to protect these droplets from cyber attacks.
Pros
- Quick to setup
- Faster launch times
- SSD storage by default
- Multiple ready to use images for quickly setting up the stack you need
Cons
- Honestly speaking, we never faced any challenge while using the droplets
- It is developer friendly platform, but may be a bit difficult for non devs to run things
- Nothing else as such
Most Important Features
- Cost benefit
- SSDs for amazing performance
- Ease of setup
Return on Investment
- It helped us run our platform with minimum cost for a long time
- It was easy for our team to quickly understand and get started
- The only negative is that you can't shut down the droplets to save cost, you have to destroy the droplets.
Alternatives Considered
Rackspace Managed Hosting, Linode and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Other Software Used
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Postman, GitHub
The best cloud computing service!
Pros
- pay per hour model
- droplets availability on different regions
- the ability to instantly destroy a droplet
Cons
- it would be great if they can add more server locations preferably in the MENA region
Most Important Features
- snapshots to take a backup of our servers
- the option to scale up and down server resources on demand
- the ability to create test droplets and only get charged few cents for the few hours they've been up
Return on Investment
- DigitalOcean Droplets has no downtime which allows us to always have our website up and take orders from our customers which is a must for our industry
- The DigitalOcean Droplets scaling option saved us multiple times from missing out on acquiring new customers when we had unusual spikes of website traffic
- DigitalOcean Droplets is a reliable and cost-efficient solution that allows us to save a lot of money on buying our own servers and maintaining them
Alternatives Considered
SiteGround
Other Software Used
Shopify Plus, Dropbox Business, monday.com, Typeform
Digital Ocean is a cost effective way to move web apps to the cloud
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Digital Ocean Droplets made it very simple to move some web apps to the cloud. It has also allowed us to utilize contractors, without giving them access to our internal network. I love not having to worry about the security of our web apps, and plan to migrate more things up to the digital ocean in the future
Pros
- Easy to add new VM's
- Easy to share access with others
- Cost is very competitive
Cons
- The interface has a lot going on, so hard to know where to go
- VM configuration could be easier
Most Important Features
- Easy to setup
- Easy to share access with others
- Cost
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
Other Software Used
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), Scale Computing HC3
Affordable cloud Droplet
Pros
- Easy USER interface
- Cost effective compared to other cloud giants
- Quick deployment of Droplets
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.
Most Important Features
- Affordable and cheap pricing
- Quick deployment and server quality is good
- Documentation and tutorials videos easily available and we'll documented.
Return on Investment
- In terms of pricing, it has proved beneficial as we have checked with other cloud providers and their pricing is quite high in comparison to droplets.
- Easy deployment of droplets makes the application available faster for testing purposes.
- Reliability is really good and taking backup is quite easy.
Alternatives Considered
AWS Compute Optimizer
Other Software Used
Datadog, AppDynamics, Pandora FMS