DigitalOcean Reviews and Ratings

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

DigialOcean is a good option for those looking to run their own web server at an affordable price, with the flexibility to grow with your needs. Because of the low price and ease of starting a server, it's also a good place to test out ideas and prototypes.

DigialOcean is not a good option for anyone who lacks experience using the command line, as well as anyone not willing to manually maintain a server, including installing updates.

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

As DigitalOcean is cost effective, it is an excellent choice for individual application developers and / or small teams working in early startups to deploy their infrastructure in the cloud. It is also easy to host a SaaS application on DigitalOcean marketplace. If fine grained role based access control is a must then you are better off going with the bigger cloud providers such as AWS, Google Cloud.

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

Just possible to do what you need and helpful for all daily needs. We installed our web server with mutiple domains with a pacjegs perfectly adapted to the OS available. If we had some issues, the server was possible to delete and start again, really handy as the time to setup is very quick, and easy/handy via the DigitalOcean GUI.

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

DigitalOcean is perfect for hosting client websites, running marketing tools, and managing media storage with Spaces and CDN. The use of Droplets to quickly launch landing pages or WordPress sites for campaigns is a Godsend. It’s great for fast, cheap, and scalable solutions. But for complex microservices or projects needing strict compliance (like HIPAA), DigitalOcean may not always be the best fit, but that depends heavily on your project.

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

DigitalOcean is perfect when you need to move forward fast and you don’t want to waste time on struggling with extensive configurations.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

DigitalOcean is a powerful tool so as to control the virtual server in the cloud. It's widely used in our organization so that the servers can be allocated in multiple regions as per our needs. It's a highly scalable and flexible tool to host websites and web apps that allows us to use our own servers as well. The performance is great and the server cost is inexpensive. The user can eventually have full control over the machine with its user friendly interface.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

DigitalOcean is used to host our apps and website. Before using it, we were using share-hosting and were having issues with website speed and capacity at peak times. Our website often crashed for too many people at the same time on it, so we decided to change to dedicated servers and ended up choosing DigitalOcean.

Likelihood to Recommend

If you are looking for a reliable platform to host your website and apps, DigitalOcean is one of the best out there. Since it's a pay-per-use and scalable platform, you will never have problems with having too many customers on your website at the same time. Since it's a dedicated servers platform, you need high volume to justify using it compared to shared servers.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using DigitalOcean for storing our statics website and WordPress websites. With DigitalOcean we were able to migrate from AWS and unlock [an] easier, cheaper cloud platform. With DigitalOcean we are able to [set up] a scalable server easily and as [quickly] as possible[.]

Likelihood to Recommend

DigitalOcean is suitable if you'd like to have a scalable server for cheaper prices than the competition and with a quick and easy setup process. If you otherwise prefer a server [that] is highly [customizable] then it's not suitable for you.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it to host a couple of websites, APIs, and apps for our organization.

Likelihood to Recommend

DigitalOcean is well suited if you need to be able to create a server that scales and you want full control/responsibility of your tech stack. We recommend using some kind of serverless solution if you are smaller and don't want the management overhead.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We've used DigitalOcean for running microservices. It's only used by our development team and isn't often used by other departments. It isn't our primary hosting service (we use AWS/Heroku) but I've used it both at work and on personal projects to quickly and cheaply launch prototypes. DigitalOcean is better for people who are a little more technical but it has some nice templated hosting solutions (e.g. WordPress) that less technical members of the team can use.

Likelihood to Recommend

Scenarios where DigitalOcean is well suited:

- I would recommend DigitalOcean for any startup looking to get up and running quickly, but concerned about scalability and infrastructure costs

- DigitalOcean is also a powerful tool for running microservices; it can be useful for prototyping or quickly launching pre-configured services

Scenarios where DigitalOcean is less appropriate:

- DigitalOcean would be less appropriate for companies with limited devops experience in their teams (you need to be more on top of your infrastructure and may not get the automated infrastructure updates that you would from something like AWS).