DigitalOcean Droplets vs. IBM Cloud Internet Services

DigitalOcean Droplets

IBM Cloud Internet Services

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
DigitalOcean Droplets	Score 8.7 out of 10	N/A	DigitalOcean's Droplets is designed to help the user spin up a virtual machine in just 55 seconds. Standard, General Purpose, CPU-Optimized, or Memory-Optimized configurations provide flexibility to build, test, and grow an app from startup to scale.	$4 per month
IBM Cloud Internet Services	Score 8.8 out of 10	Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)	IBM Cloud Internet Services is a set of edge network services for securing internet-facing applications from DDoS attacks, data theft, and bot attacks, as well as optimizing their web apps or ensuring global responsiveness and the ongoing availability of their internet-facing applications.	$275 per month, per domain

Pricing

DigitalOcean Droplets

IBM Cloud Internet Services

Editions & Modules

Basic: $4
per month
CPU-Optimized: $42
per month
General Purpose: $63
per month
Memory-Optimized: $84
per month
Storage-Optimized: $131
per month

IBM Cloud Internet Services - Standard: $275.00
per month, per domain
IBM Cloud Internet Services - Enterprise: Call

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
DigitalOcean Droplets	IBM Cloud Internet Services
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

Pricing for DigitalOcean Droplets varies depending on the size of the virtual environment and the associated data needs.

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Community Pulse
	DigitalOcean Droplets	IBM Cloud Internet Services
Considered Both Products	DigitalOcean Droplets Verified User Anonymous Chose DigitalOcean Droplets 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. Incentivized Helpful? Prashant Chaudhari Head of Engineering & Founding team member Chose DigitalOcean Droplets Cost is much lesser Interface is very easy to use Documentation is readily available for most of the usecases. Incentivized Helpful? Anuj Rai Senior Associate Technology Chose DigitalOcean Droplets The reason for selecting digital ocean was since we require a cloud solution for testing applications internally without being bothered about servers needing to be deployed in different geographical locations. As Droplets can be deployed very easily and boot faster than any … Incentivized Helpful? LA Laila Abouizza Backend Developer Chose DigitalOcean Droplets DigitalOcean Droplets has more advanced options and the devs at our team are extremely geeky and they prefer to have full control on the server via SSH rather than cPanel. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose DigitalOcean Droplets DigitalOcean Droplets is continuously evolving to be more and more powerful. It has great features and has low cost options, which is really great for developers. Its CDN, Loadbalancer, etc. make it a good place to host a high-traffic application. Moroever, DigitalOcean … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose DigitalOcean Droplets 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. Incentivized Helpful?	IBM Cloud Internet Services Alexandre Carvalho Senior Technical Support Engineer Chose IBM Cloud Internet Services IBM Cloud difference is the ability to use PPC hardware and to use IBM I operating system. Other cloud providers have a better interface and features for regular unix/windows vms. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Cloud Internet Services I have used Salesforce to explore it as an app but I have found them both able to solve my needs and requirements when it comes to security. While I choose IBM Cloud Internet Services for more accessibility, a better price was available with Saleforce. Although that is just my … Incentivized Helpful? Ramindu Deshapriya Lead Consultant - Technology Chose IBM Cloud Internet Services IBM Cloud Internet Services is the best service to use to ensure security, performance and reliability of applications deployed to IBM Cloud, as it is a service that provides in-built solutions for IBM Cloud Foundry applications. It also provides a great deal of pre-configured … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Cloud Internet Services Another option we looked into was Cloudflare, but we ended up with IBM Cloud Internet services mostly because of the intuitive interface and reliable customer support center. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Cloud Internet Services IBM Cloud Internet Services edged out Cisco solutions in terms of quality of user experience and need to have flexibility in parameterizing the solution in global organization. Amazon cloud solutions are comparable to IBM solutions. Incentivized Helpful? TS Telmo Salazar Gerente Tecnologías de la Información Chose IBM Cloud Internet Services Barracuda Web Filter is used to limit internet access to certain websites. This is a great tool with an easy to use interface that you can log into to monitor web browsing activities from your end user. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Cloud Internet Services They are IBM products that my engineers ramp up on in terms of skills Incentivized Helpful? Christophe MEUNIER-JACOB CEO & Co Founder Chose IBM Cloud Internet Services We prototyped a new feature based on it Incentivized Helpful?

Best Alternatives
	DigitalOcean Droplets	IBM Cloud Internet Services
Small Businesses	Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Score 8.9 out of 10	No answers on this topic
Medium-sized Companies	SAP on IBM Cloud Score 9.5 out of 10	Cisco ACI Score 7.6 out of 10
Enterprises	SAP on IBM Cloud Score 9.5 out of 10	Cisco ACI Score 7.6 out of 10
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User Ratings
	DigitalOcean Droplets	IBM Cloud Internet Services
Likelihood to Recommend	9.9 (0 ratings)	7.5 (0 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	6.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	DigitalOcean Droplets	IBM Cloud Internet Services
Likelihood to Recommend	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	In terms of business challenges, it simplifies the job of my engineers and significantly increases the productivity of my teams when they collaborate with IBM teams all over the world. Now that we have completed a proof-of-concept using the services supplied by IBM, we expect it to assist us in managing them more efficiently; thus far, management has been straightforward. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	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 Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	build servers in Power PC architecture (ppc) take advantage of IBM datacenters infrastructure around the world continue to use your apps running on AIX Incentivized Alexandre Carvalho Senior Technical Support Engineer Read full review
Cons	In terms of an availability zone, they have limitations not available in most of the geographical locations. No live support is available which can cause problem if you have outage. Number of service is quite limited. Incentivized Anuj Rai Senior Associate Technology Read full review	Request proxying is done by way of DNS name resolution, which is inflexible. Proxy services do not work on wildcard DNS entries. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	Other platforms dashboard console is more difficult to use. DigitalOcean's dashboard is clean, simple, and straightforward Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	I have seen faster and more user friendly interfaces like Azure Incentivized Alexandre Carvalho Senior Technical Support Engineer Read full review
Alternatives Considered	DigitalOcean Droplets has more advanced options and the devs at our team are extremely geeky and they prefer to have full control on the server via SSH rather than cPanel. Incentivized LA Laila Abouizza Backend Developer Read full review	I have used Salesforce to explore it as an app but I have found them both able to solve my needs and requirements when it comes to security. While I choose IBM Cloud Internet Services for more accessibility, a better price was available with Saleforce. Although that is just my observation. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Digital Ocean has been great helping us move web apps to the cloud Digital Ocean has been really helpful when hiring contractors The interface could use some work, but overall its not terrible Incentivized Tom Blazek IT Manager Read full review	Reduced security configuration time for Internet of Things applications by more than 50% Provided better security incident SLA for CouchDB databases via IBM Cloudant Reduced security verification time for CloudFoundry applications by ~15% Incentivized Ramindu Deshapriya Lead Consultant - Technology Read full review
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