The best bang for your buck droplet platform
June 09, 2025

The best bang for your buck droplet platform

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with DigitalOcean Droplets

We use DigitalOcean's Droplets to power our web servers for client sites, SaaS platforms, custom app backends, and more. They have been a great option that mixes an easy-to-use deployment options with optimal performance. The dashboard provides access to critical statistics on our servers, allowing us to address any performance issues with one-click upgrades.

Pros

  • Easy to launch
  • Performant
  • Secure

Cons

  • Some platforms offer better performance for cheaper servers
  • Only positive - without their great offering at a great price, we wouldn't be able to server our clients and quickly release new products
Other platforms dashboard console is more difficult to use. DigitalOcean's dashboard is clean, simple, and straightforward.
Vultr had better performance in some instances but overall the dashboard was a mess to use a lot of times. When you zoom out from server performance and price, DigitalOcean offered more useful features, and the API was more consistent in some of the use cases we needed.

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

Vultr, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Cloudflare
There are some other platforms that compete with DigitalOcean Droplets that have more performant servers for a very minimal price decrease. However, DigitalOcean's servers still have great performance, and the experience is better when you consider the developer console, managed options, and uptime that DigitalOcean offers. DigitalOcean is the better all-around package.

DigitalOcean Droplets Feature Ratings

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
8.8
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime
10
Dynamic scaling
10
Elastic load balancing
5
Pre-configured templates
5
Monitoring tools
10
Pre-defined machine images
9
Operating system support
10
Security controls
10
Automation
10

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