DigitalOcean Droplets

Score9.4 out of 10

30 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for DigitalOcean Droplets are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Pay per hour model: Several users have praised the pay per hour model, stating that it offers flexibility and cost control. The ability to pay only for the hours used allows customers to efficiently manage their expenses and adjust resources as needed.

Availability of droplets on different regions: Many reviewers appreciate the availability of droplets on different regions, as it enhances accessibility and enables efficient data replication. This feature provides users with the flexibility to choose a region closer to their target audience or replicate data across multiple locations for improved performance and reliability.

Instantly destroy droplets: The ability to instantly destroy a droplet has been mentioned by multiple users as a convenient feature. This functionality allows customers to easily manage their resources, saving time and effort in terminating unnecessary instances.

Reviews

8 Reviews

The best bang for your buck droplet platform

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

June 9, 2025

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

Likelihood to Recommend

There are some other platforms that compete with DigitalOcean Droplets that have more performant servers for a very minimal price decrease. However, DigitalOcean's servers still have great performance, and the experience is better when you consider the developer console, managed options, and uptime that DigitalOcean offers. DigitalOcean is the better all-around package.

Verified User

Team Lead in Engineering (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

10 years of experience

Easier, Cheaper and Performance optimised hosting for developers

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

January 27, 2023

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.

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

Likelihood to Recommend

if you are just starting your business and want to quickly setup servers with cheaper cost, Digital Ocean droplets is the way to go.
Minimum size droplet costs just $5 and its much less compared to any other cloud service providers.

Prashant Chaudhari

Head of Engineering & Founding team member in Engineering at Jombay (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

10 years of experience

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Digital Ocean is a cost effective way to move web apps to the cloud

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

November 24, 2021

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

Likelihood to Recommend

Digital Ocean is well suited for moving web apps to the cloud. It allows us to set up test and production environments without having to worry as much about security. It also allows us to bring on contractors and not give them access to our internal resources. Provisioning of resources is pretty easy as well

Tom Blazek

IT Manager in Information Technology at Rancilio Group North America (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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Scalable, decently priced alternatives to major cloud solution providers

Rating: 9 out of 10

November 17, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We were evaluating various cloud-based computation platforms for our internal POC. Digital Ocean droplets were one of the cloud-based solution providers we used. Our POC consisted of using lots of threads to perform computations in parallel. Digital Ocean Droplets were easy to set up and start using, decently priced, and easily scalable. They also provide useful information thus keeping our bills in check to some extent.

Pros

Scalable
Easy to use

Cons

Usage information should be more real time
GPU option should be introduced

Likelihood to Recommend

If you want to set up your cloud infrastructure easily then Digital Ocean Droplets should suit you. They are scalable as well but they offer only CPU computation power. Hence, if your usage is only based on CPU computation then this can be a good option. They are decently priced as well. However, if you require graphics processing then this will not work.

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Affordable cloud Droplet

Rating: 6 out of 10

Incentivized

November 17, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

DigitalOcean is like an alternative cloud solution which we are using right in our organization for UAT environment and to do POC(proof of concept), POV(proof of value). In terms of pricing is far cheaper than another cloud platform like Amazon, Google cloud platform, azure. The UI is quite interactive and easy to navigate for a number of other services.

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

DigitalOcean solution is quite effective if you are a mid-size organization and your end users are not scattered across the globe because the droplet has limitations of launching in different geographical locations as their data center is not widely available, neither they have live chat support to address your issue in case you run out in any kind of outage which will impact your end-user and business.

Anuj Rai

Senior Associate Technology in Information Technology at Synechron (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

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The best cloud computing service!

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

November 6, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

A DigitalOcean Droplet is being used at our company to host our WordPress website and we also use it for cloud computing purposes like running python automation scripts 24/7 on a cloud computer that we can easily manage via SSH, DigitalOcean Droplets makes the process of creating Linux servers extremely easy and the marketplace is full of great 1 click solutions for different purposes like OpenVPN, Plesk, Docker, etc...

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

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Laila Abouizza

Backend Developer in Information Technology at FastEcomAds (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

DigitalOcean--Made for developers by developers

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

June 16, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As our main product is an education platform, we need to host the website. The site being a heavyweight application, I can't use typical hosting. So we buy VPS from DigitalOcean. DigitalOcean Droplets is one of the best in the market according to our need because our platform is non-profit, so we can't afford big servers all month long. DigitalOcean Droplets gives us the flexibility to resize servers when the load increases. Our site is built with PHP and we have built a deployment cycle in our DigitalOcean Droplets, so the development process has been so much easier.

Moreover, we have been selected in DigitalOcean Droplets' non-profit program, where they provide us free credit for a year. That is another reason we chose DigitalOcean Droplets.

Pros

Instant server spin-up
App platform
CDN network

Cons

Managed database
App platform
Mobile app

Likelihood to Recommend

If you need a server with minimal pricing, for testing or something, DigitalOcean Droplets is for you. If you need root level permission to run your app and modify the system as you want, DigitalOcean Droplets is for you.

If you want one-click docker hosting or a highly scalable system, DigitalOcean Droplets might not be the best choice. Yet you can do it by yourself; it's just not properly automated yet. Go for Azure/AWS. Because although DigitalOcean Droplets has an app platform where you can run your app directly and spin up docker container, it has issues. The deployment time is really long, and it takes ages to deploy.

Verified User

Director in Engineering (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

Cost-effective, reliable option for projects such as websites or cloud phone systems

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

April 26, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use DigitalOcean Droplets to host various VPSes for our clients' public-facing websites. It saves us having to set up our own infrastructure and is used across our whole company. It provides the reliability we need to be able to concentrate on developing our products. We have also used DigitalOcean Droplets to host various apps such as 3CX phone system and Unifi cloud controllers to manage our clients' WiFi equipment.

Pros

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

Cons

No facility to take snapshots of Droplets to another service for backup

Likelihood to Recommend

Testing and development is a excellent use case for DigitalOcean Droplets. You can spin up a new Linux machine in under a couple of minutes, deploy and test your application publicly, and then destroy the instance and only pay for the time it was running. It is perfect for hosting public-facing web applications and other packages such as VoIP phone systems.

Verified User

Technician in Information Technology (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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