DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean

129 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
DigitalOcean	Score8.9 out of 10	N/A	DigitalOcean is an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform from the company of the same name headquartered in New York. It is known for its support of managed Kubernetes clusters and “droplets” feature.	$5 Starting Price Per Month

Pricing

DigitalOcean

1GB-16GB: $5.00
Starting Price Per Month
8GB-160GB: $60.00
Starting Price Per Month

Pricing Offerings
DigitalOcean
Free Trial
No
Free/Freemium Version
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No

No setup fee

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Considered Both Products	DigitalOcean Vinaya Kumar B Engineering Lead in Engineering at Kloudle (Computer & Network Security, 1-10 employees) Chose DigitalOcean The target segment of DigitalOcean is application developers and small teams working in startups for easily configuring and deploying infrastructure in the cloud. We selected DigitalOcean for some of our usecases as it is cost effective and easy to integrate with compared to … Incentivized Helpful? Jan Saggiori Director in Research & Development at SSSLLC (Computer Networking, 1-10 employees) Chose DigitalOcean Simple, and quick setup, competitive pricing as well as geographically you can choose the location of the datacenter. The setup of the machine with RAM / CPU and SDD gives all options, it is just what we always needed and find our self very well with such type of service by … Incentivized Helpful? Fernando Orozco CTO at Elevo \| BBBO Group (Marketing & Advertising, 1-10 employees) Chose DigitalOcean I chose DigitalOcean over Oracle Cloud because it's simpler, more cost-effective, and quicker to deploy. DigitalOcean’s intuitive interface allows me to manage servers easily, while Oracle Cloud is more complex and suited for larger enterprises. Also, DigitalOcean’s transparent … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose DigitalOcean DigitalOcean is an inexpensive product as compared to other products available in the market. The UI is easy and the beginner can also understand the UI with the step by step guide. It provides a lot of custom features and the user needs to pay only for what they are using. … Incentivized Helpful? Antoine St-Pierre Digital Automation Manager in Marketing at Techo-Bloc (Building Materials, 501-1000 employees) Chose DigitalOcean DigitalOcean is really one of the cheapest options out there for dedicated servers. Plus, their pay-per-use pricing helps companies to grow at their own pace without having to pay for a higher performance or service they don't need initially. Their platform is well built and … Incentivized Helpful? Marco Carnevali VP Products in Engineering at Inkstinct (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose DigitalOcean DigitalOcean is an easier and cheaper way to [set up] new machines. The UX is really good and it's easy to find what you need. Competition offer[s] a complicated way to manage machines and the cost is sometimes more than [...] double of what DigitalOcean offer[s]. However[,] … Incentivized Helpful? Bobby Johnson Co-Founder / Full Stack Dev in Corporate at Madness Labs (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose DigitalOcean As I have said, DigitalOcean was slightly more expensive than something like HostGator, but the amount of customization and quality of service make it worth any difference. AWS was always a pain to set up and use, but DigitalOcean makes it cake. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose DigitalOcean DigitalOcean is not quite as simple as Heroku to get up and running, but it provides a better price point and more configurability. However, in my opinion it's much simpler to get up and running with than AWS OpsWorks and even Google App Engine. It also provides a better price … Incentivized Helpful? Leonel Quinteros Director of Technology in Information Technology at Global Brigades, Inc. (Non-Profit Organization Management, 11-50 employees) Chose DigitalOcean Digital Ocean is easier to start with and was a great choice for that project. On other projects, I may choose Google Cloud products because of their more complex product offerings and advanced features. Products like Storage or Pub/Sub isn't available on Digital Ocean and the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose DigitalOcean 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Fedor Paretsky Co-Founder/CEO in Engineering at aspace, Inc. (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose DigitalOcean Amazon has a very complex UI and many products to offer. They haven't polished up their UI and it has a much greater learning curve compared to DigitalOcean. However, Amazon Web Services (AWS) does have more comprehensive cloud computing services, which forces some companies to … Incentivized Helpful? Tarun Mangukiya Co-Founder in Information Technology at Iconscout (Design, 1-10 employees) Chose DigitalOcean Initially we started using DigitalOcean due to their pricing point as we were in development phase. Slowly when we used it, we starting liking it a lot as it is very fast & easy to get started, compared to the other Cloud Providers we've used. Also they have blogs and … Incentivized Helpful? Jeanine Schoessler Web Developer in Information Technology at satinflame design (Higher Education, 1-10 employees) Chose DigitalOcean Site5's customer service and support have declined over the recent years. The last couple of tickets that I submitted in 2016 were never addressed by their help team. The only customer service agent seems to be on their Twitter account. Site5 does not allow any configuration of … Incentivized Helpful? Praneeth Karnena Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief in Information Technology at DustMoon.Com (Computer & Network Security, 1-10 employees) Chose DigitalOcean 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Craig Nash Sr. Network Engineer in Information Technology at GodAmongGeeks.Com (Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees) Chose DigitalOcean Compared service to service, Digitalocean comes out on top usually, for smaller better spec servers. This is what they do, and specialty shops are always the best route, with no exception here. However, if you need more than a server, or are not comfortable doing more than … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose DigitalOcean Cheaper than Heroku which is prohibitively expensive for a small self-funded startup. We quickly outgrew their free tier and migrated to DigitalOcean. AWS is more feature complete however, we found its maintenance overly confusing and not as well thought out. For many use cases … Incentivized Helpful? Chris Putnam Senior Web Developer in Information Technology at WebpageFX (Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees) Chose DigitalOcean DigitalOcean has a much lower price point for VPS - but they are not fully managed as with other services. DigitalOcean VPSs are good for quick simple applications that we are comfortable and efficient at deploying ourselves. We do not generally recommend them for clients, as … Incentivized Helpful? Tyler Longren IT Consultant in Information Technology at I-35 Spirits (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose DigitalOcean DigitalOcean isn't nearly as robust as Google Cloud. DigitalOcean provides VPSs, as does Google Cloud. However, Google Cloud offers many other products as well. ChunkHost is very similar to DigitalOcean, but doesn't have the infrastructure that DigitalOcean has. Geographical … Incentivized Helpful? Hernán Silva Front-end developer in Engineering at Velocity Partners (Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees) Chose DigitalOcean AWS: Too complex to set things up. Period. Mediatemple: Great features, services and customer service. Prices are a bit high for what they offer. Linode: Outstanding features and customer support. Difficult to start with for novice users. Incentivized Helpful? Chris Gabriel Interactive Designer & Developer at Macy's.com (Design, 10,001+ employees) Chose DigitalOcean My cost savings were significant and I felt like I was much more in control of the hardware and processes. I also had issues with certain marketing decisions my former hosting company made, DigitalOcean was an easy choice! Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose DigitalOcean DigitalOcean's dead simple pricing and solid but basic feature set combine for a no-nonsense way to get your product shipped. Its API makes it nicely scriptable/automate-able compared to traditional shared hosting providers like Dreamhost. I think it compares most closely with … Incentivized Helpful? Joey Yax Web Developer in Engineering at Grady Britton (Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees) Chose DigitalOcean Linode was my long time go-to and we still have several sites hosted and maintained on their servers. Initially, I was skeptical of DigitalOcean's pricing, but they've proven to be an excellent alternative. Linode is more mature in their toolset, but both are really great … Incentivized Helpful? Edward Larkey Linux System Administrator in Information Technology at Cerner Corporation (Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees) Chose DigitalOcean It was the right balance of cost, ease of use, and support. Incentivized Helpful?
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Features

DigitalOcean

Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of DigitalOcean
Feature	DigitalOcean 8.3 33 Ratings
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime	9.228 Ratings
Dynamic scaling	9.029 Ratings
Elastic load balancing	7.021 Ratings
Pre-configured templates	10.027 Ratings
Monitoring tools	10.032 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images	7.531 Ratings
Operating system support	8.331 Ratings
Security controls	9.029 Ratings
Automation	5.03 Ratings

User Ratings
	DigitalOcean
Likelihood to Recommend	8.2 (33 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.0 (2 ratings)
Usability	8.0 (7 ratings)
Availability	10.0 (1 ratings)
Performance	9.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	8.8 (9 ratings)
Product Scalability	10.0 (1 ratings)