A great basic virtualization provider
August 26, 2019
A great basic virtualization provider
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with DigitalOcean
We used DigitalOcean for some of our one-off virtualization workloads and to see the viability of working with one-off POCs and smaller projects. This was primarily for us to test out other offerings out there to see if it stacked up to products we currently use. We did a POC on a WordPress farm for a year and then kept up a couple of instances for posterity purposes.
- Easy to get started
- Good selection of virtual machine images
- Good dashboarding and metrics to show uptime to stakeholders
- Need better increments for virtualization
- Pricing is a bit steep on some offerings
- Can be a challenge to customize out of the box images
- Allowed us to experiment freely with VM.
- Fairly stable workload.
- Quick provisioning and turn around time for a request.
DigitalOcean can be seen more like a Rackspace or a similar provider. They aren't offering more extended services such as AWS Redshift of something on a larger scale. They are great for just vanilla virtualization and maintaining uptime for those resources across a large set of images that can be provisioned.