Why DigitalOcean Dominates the VPS Market
Updated March 12, 2021
Why DigitalOcean Dominates the VPS Market
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DustMoon is a media company that publishes hand-picked stories from the tech. I founded the company with some help from my colleagues. DustMoon quickly outgrew shared hosting with over 500K visits per month. We then decided to try out DigitalOcean as it is the most hyped VPS provider at that time. It exceeded our expectations with its performance. We used the entry-level VPS with 512MB RAM. Configuration: Nginx, Redis, MariaDB & Varnish. Adding Varnish to the stack is our best decision. We load tested our server stack with Blitz and it successfully handled 3-4.5 million visits with a very low response times.
And thereafter, we implemented the same stack for our sister network, consisting of 3 sites.
And thereafter, we implemented the same stack for our sister network, consisting of 3 sites.
- 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.
- 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.
- DigitalOcean is best suited for SMBs. Very obviously, they get very get profound ROI on DigitalOcean. Return on Investment is very high.
- Scalability: The only problem is when the SMBs turn into large enterprises. They feel like moving away to another cloud provider like Amazon Web Service or Microsoft Azure who provide more specific products for successfully running an enterprise.
- Support: Support might be a drawback as they have a very less support personnel all over the world. It's because of their business model.
- Vultr and Linode
Vultr is a new player in the game. They don't advertise their hardware model and for that reason, people may not trust them. I have run few benchmarks on Vultr, they performed slightly better than DigitalOcean but they aren't trustworthy. Their transparency index is very low and also they're inconsistent. Linode is the granddad of all. This is the oldest player in the game. Very stable and old. Their platform is a little buggy. People have complained about losing their data on Linode several times. Also, they're the only VPS provider to be hit by large scale DDoS attacks. Obviously, I don't want my site to go down, therefore Linode isn't my first preference.