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DigitalOcean Droplets vs. OpenVZ

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting 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
OpenVZ
Score 9.1 out of 10
N/A
OpenVZ is container-based virtualization for Linux supported by Virtuozzo and fundamental to that company's commercial offering. It is open source and free.N/A
Pricing
DigitalOcean DropletsOpenVZ
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
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
DigitalOcean DropletsOpenVZ
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsPricing for DigitalOcean Droplets varies depending on the size of the virtual environment and the associated data needs.—
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Community Pulse
DigitalOcean DropletsOpenVZ
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.
Prashant Chaudhari | TrustRadius Reviewer
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.
Anuj Rai | TrustRadius Reviewer
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 …
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.
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 …
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.
OpenVZ
Vadim Kuts | TrustRadius Reviewer
Vadim Kuts
DevOps Engineer
Chose OpenVZ
Kubernetes and Docker are de-facto standards today, but I think that OpenVZ and Proxmox are better solutions
Features
DigitalOcean DropletsOpenVZ
Server Virtualization
Comparison of Server Virtualization features of Product A and Product B
DigitalOcean Droplets
-
Ratings
OpenVZ
9.1
Ratings
11% above category average
Virtual machine automated provisioning00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Management console00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Live virtual machine backup00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Live virtual machine migration00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Best Alternatives
DigitalOcean DropletsOpenVZ
Small Businesses
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Score 8.9 out of 10
DigitalOcean Droplets
DigitalOcean Droplets
Score 8.7 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
SAP on IBM Cloud
SAP on IBM Cloud
Score 9.5 out of 10
VMware vSOM (discontinued)
VMware vSOM (discontinued)
Score 10.0 out of 10
Enterprises
SAP on IBM Cloud
SAP on IBM Cloud
Score 9.5 out of 10
VMware vSOM (discontinued)
VMware vSOM (discontinued)
Score 10.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
DigitalOcean DropletsOpenVZ
Likelihood to Recommend
9.9
(0 ratings)
9.1
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
DigitalOcean DropletsOpenVZ
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.
Verified User
Anonymous
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If you are considering to use Docker and Kubernetes then you can give a try to OpenVZ and Proxmox. It is a good alternative and it is as good as Docker and Kubernetes
Vadim Kuts | TrustRadius Reviewer
Vadim Kuts
DevOps Engineer
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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
Verified User
Anonymous
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  • It is container-based virtualization
  • It is not resource-heavy
  • It is better then KVM
Vadim Kuts | TrustRadius Reviewer
Vadim Kuts
DevOps Engineer
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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.
Anuj Rai | TrustRadius Reviewer
Anuj Rai
Senior Associate Technology
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  • Since it is a container-based solution, you can't run any other OS, except for Linux
  • It is not so popular as Docker, but it's not that bad
Vadim Kuts | TrustRadius Reviewer
Vadim Kuts
DevOps Engineer
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Usability
Other platforms dashboard console is more difficult to use. DigitalOcean's dashboard is clean, simple, and straightforward
Verified User
Anonymous
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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.
LA
Laila Abouizza
Backend Developer
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Kubernetes and Docker are de-facto standards today, but I think that OpenVZ and Proxmox are better solutions
Vadim Kuts | TrustRadius Reviewer
Vadim Kuts
DevOps Engineer
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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
Tom Blazek | TrustRadius Reviewer
Tom Blazek
IT Manager
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  • It's free, so you can try it and figure out if it suited for your needs
Vadim Kuts | TrustRadius Reviewer
Vadim Kuts
DevOps Engineer
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