Cost-effective, reliable option for projects such as websites or cloud phone systems
Updated August 03, 2021

Cost-effective, reliable option for projects such as websites or cloud phone systems

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with DigitalOcean Droplets

We use DigitalOcean Droplets to host various VPSes for our clients' public-facing websites. It saves us having to set up our own infrastructure and is used across our whole company. It provides the reliability we need to be able to concentrate on developing our products. We have also used DigitalOcean Droplets to host various apps such as 3CX phone system and Unifi cloud controllers to manage our clients' WiFi equipment.
  • Simplicity to scale services--the interface is very quick and effective to use
  • Reliability--this is key for us, as any downtime effects our reputation
  • Keeps the costs down--hosting our own equivalent infrastructure would cost a lot more
  • No facility to take snapshots of Droplets to another service for backup
  • Allowed us to provide reliable and scalable web hosting to our clients with a good profit margin
  • When support is slow, it can be difficult to get a service back up and running if required
Both Linode and DigitalOcean Droplets perform about the same and cost about the same. However we prefer the DigitalOcean Droplets interface, and the Cloud Firewall service is a must for us.

Do you think DigitalOcean Droplets delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with DigitalOcean Droplets's feature set?

Yes

Did DigitalOcean Droplets live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of DigitalOcean Droplets go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy DigitalOcean Droplets again?

Yes

Linode, Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365), Cloudflare
Testing and development is a excellent use case for DigitalOcean Droplets. You can spin up a new Linux machine in under a couple of minutes, deploy and test your application publicly, and then destroy the instance and only pay for the time it was running. It is perfect for hosting public-facing web applications and other packages such as VoIP phone systems.