#1 most frequent
United States of America
40.2%215,192 installations of 534,662
What is DigitalOcean?
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.
Categories & Use Cases
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Top Performing Features
Pre-configured templates
Pre-defined templates for virtual machines
Category average: 7.9
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
Areas for Improvement
Operating system support
Range of operating systems available as pre-configured images
Category average: 8.3
Security controls
Compliance with security protocols like SSL and AES
Category average: 8.7
Automation
Automation of administrative tasks
Category average: 7.6
Who Buys & Uses DigitalOcean
#2 most frequent
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
11.2%59,772 installations of 534,662
#3 most frequent
Canada
6.1%32,614 installations of 534,662
DigitalOcean is a good value and flexible
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I use DigitalOcean as a LAMP stack server for my web hosting. I host a few PHP-based websites, along with a WordPress blog install and a few Drupal website installs. I also use it as a place to host random one-off projects that need a back-end language or a database. My server currently does not get an excessive amount of traffic, but the Drupal installs especially use a fair amount of server resources.
Pros
- Hosting flexibility
- Server stability
- Good uptime
- Good pricing
Cons
- Setting usage limits to prevent large bills
- Support for beginners
- ARM-based server options
Return on Investment
- Low pricing, saving about 50% of my previous hosting costs
- Good uptime
- Easy to get going
Usability
Alternatives Considered
DreamHost and Amazon Web Services
Other Software Used
Discord, Netlify Platform, Docker, Next.js, React, Vue.js, Microsoft Visual Studio Code, Microsoft Teams
Easy to use and cost effective cloud service provider for application developers and startups
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
In my organization, DigitalOcean is primarily used to create droplets and databases. DigitalOcean is an excellent choice for early startups as they can deploy their infrastructure at lower cost compared to the relatively bigger cloud providers. We have also integrated our SaaS application as a DigitalOcean marketplace Add-On. This helps our application business by serving as a channel for acquiring new customers.
Pros
- Cost effective
- Easy to use
- Easy to integrate
- Great technical support
Cons
- Fine grained role based access control
- AI chatbot
- Ability to easily generate and get spaces credentials like personal access token using an OAuth application so as to build easy to use applications for our end users
Return on Investment
- Reduced cost
- Increased revenue through marketplace integration
- Increased trust on our application as we are listed on the marketplace
Usability
Alternatives Considered
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Google Cloud Platform
Other Software Used
PostgreSQL, Couchbase Capella, Google Cloud Platform
Just perfect Very happy
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use DigitalOcean since at least 10 years for our needs of servers and web servers, it's definitely very handy and helpful, as it is possible just to have a server for few minutes and delete it, or test the various type of installations (OS), capacity or hard disk (SSD). It's very flexible and extremly competitive at the level of the prices compared with other datacenter... and one of the must is that you can select the datacenter you prefer geogrphically, choosing which country you prefer and that has the best bandwith to your customers.
Pros
- Pricing
- Geographical Datacenter
- Various OS available
- Possibility to setup a server in seconds and also remove it as quickly.
Cons
- I really find out that the service is perfect
- keeping some common older OS could be helpful for specific installation
- VoIP PABX such as Trixbox/Asterisk could be good
Return on Investment
- Very quick and flexible
- Prices are extremly attractable
- Geographical zones are just what we needed
Usability
Infrastructure made it simple.
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I use DigitalOcean to host client websites, run marketing tools, and scale our services efficiently. Also, Droplets allows me to deploy reliable servers quickly, and managed databases help organize and store all of our campaign data. I recently started using Spaces to store media assets and backups of all the media generated for our clients. With DigitalOcean’s straightforward pricing, I can easily manage costs while delivering high-quality digital solutions to our clients.
Pros
- We are storing all media assets for our clients.
- Manage databases to generate reports and statistics for our campaigns.
- Really simple to deploy Droplets.
Cons
- It's a little bit better control panel, but maybe I'm just picky.
- There are more options on GPU droplets, maybe AMD ones.
- Better backup prices.
Return on Investment
- DigitalOcean’s straightforward pricing has helped me manage infrastructure costs effectively.
- The ease of spinning up servers and launching websites has reduced development time, and that makes our clients happy.
- Scalability allows me to quickly expand services and handle more clients without significant additional investment.
Usability
Alternatives Considered
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Other Software Used
Cloudflare, Oracle Cloud Platform
DigitalOcean: move forward fast
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We are building a MVP of a mobile application for personal trainers. We are using DigitalOcean Droplets as a runtime environment for our API. We also use Spaces buckets to store and serve via CDN user provided data.
Pros
- Ease of use and ease of configuration
- Competitive pricing
- Good documentation and knowledge base
Cons
- Container registry could have a larger free tier (500mb is almost nothing)
- We lack Secrets Manager service
Return on Investment
- We were able to deploy first version within a single work day
Alternatives Considered
DigitalOcean Spaces
Other Software Used
Twilio, Stytch