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Overview

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.

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Pricing

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1GB-16GB

$5.00

Cloud
Starting Price Per Month

8GB-160GB

$60.00

Cloud
Starting Price Per Month

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Demos

Demo: Deploying Librarian to DigitalOcean's App Platform in 3 minutes

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Hands on with Redis Labs and DigitalOcean

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MICROWEBER TUTORIAL + DEMO + INSTALL + REVIEW

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DigitalOcean Swimmer Demo

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Features

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

IaaS provides the basic building blocks for an IT infrastructure like servers, storage, and networking, in an on-demand model over the Internet

8.5
Avg 8.1
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Product Details

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.

Deployment

  • Create managed Kubernetes clusters just by specifying the size and location of worker nodes

  • Standard, general purpose, or CPU-optimized compute types

  • App marketplace

  • Global availability

Scalability

  • Scale up, scale down, or migrate between Droplets (virtual machines)

  • Distribute traffic across droplets

  • Redirect network traffic

  • Hourly billing

Storage

  • Managed MySQL, Redis, or PostgreSQL databases

  • Store and retrieve any amount of data (audio, video, etc.)

  • SSD-based storage support

  • Backups and snapshots

Security

  • Cloud firewalls

  • Private networking

  • Two-factor authorization and centralized billing

Monitoring

  • Native integration

  • Resource usage reports and graphs

  • Real-term alerts and notifications

DigitalOcean Video

Premium Droplets by DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Reviewers rate Pre-configured templates and Monitoring tools highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of DigitalOcean are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Comparisons

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Reviews From Top Reviewers

(1-5 of 33)

Infrastructure made it simple.

Rating: 8 out of 10
October 10, 2024
FO
Vetted Review
Verified User
DigitalOcean
5 years of experience
  • 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.

DigitalOcean: move forward fast

Rating: 9 out of 10
May 07, 2024
  • 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

One of the best dedicated server platforms!

Rating: 7 out of 10
April 30, 2021
AS
Vetted Review
Verified User
DigitalOcean
4 years of experience
  • Scalable hosting
  • Price is really good compared to competition
  • Customer support is really efficient and fast to reply
Cons
  • The console is not really efficient and stable
  • Need to pay for backup droplets

Why DigitalOcean Dominates the VPS Market

Rating: 9 out of 10
March 12, 2021
PK
Vetted Review
Verified User
DigitalOcean
4 years of experience
  • The network transit carriers they use are great. They use Tier-1 network providers making a website hosted on DigitalOcean super fast to most of the viewers in every country.
  • Hardware: I had visited DigitalOcean Bangalore collocation provider after getting an approval for a hackathon. They're using the Dell Rack Servers with Samsung SSDs. I'm really happy to be running on DigitalOcean.
  • Customer Support: These guys always excelled it. Excellent support personnel with sound technical knowledge.
Cons
  • More products. Like Amazon Web Services and other cloud providers, DigitalOcean should have launched other products like CDN, and more.
  • Customer Support: Customer Support personnel were warming and great. The only downside is they take a bit longer to respond.
  • The documentation doesn't get updated very frequently and errors and bugs were not addressed properly.
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