DigitalOcean - Worth it?
June 06, 2016

DigitalOcean - Worth it?

Fareed Abolhassani | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with DigitalOcean

I used it for myself and it pretty much fixed the server performance issues.
  • Great performing servers
  • Lots of operating systems & images
  • Awesome management panel
  • Great community
  • Cannot install system by yourself or provide your own ISO
  • Security issues with ssh host keys
  • Does not have a SAN but instead uses local storage in RAID5
  • Performance improved.
  • Cheap!
  • Very simple and easy to use, saved lots of time trying to tweak settings.
  • Azure
DigitalOcean offers low prices, much lower than AWS (Azure) however AWS provides much more features and better performance than DigitalOcean.

I chose DigitalOcean to save myself some money.
If you desire excellent server performance (server network speed: 1GBPS), access to scale down/up servers with a few clicks, then DigitalOcean is right for you.

DigitalOcean Feature Ratings

Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime
8
Dynamic scaling
5
Elastic load balancing
5
Pre-configured templates
6
Monitoring tools
2
Pre-defined machine images
10
Operating system support
8
Security controls
4