DigitalOcean Droplets vs. SCloud UHost

DigitalOcean Droplets

SCloud UHost

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
SCloud UHost	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	SCloud UHost is a cloud computing service that allow users to spin up a host in 18 regions in the world of various Operating Systems (OS) to offer the following: Cloud Servers - Including virtual machines, dedicated servers, and bare metal servers. Cloud Storage - Including object storage, block storage, and file storage. Cloud Networking - Including virtual private clouds (VPCs), load balancers, and…	N/A

Pricing

DigitalOcean Droplets

SCloud UHost

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 Droplets	SCloud UHost
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	SCloud UHost
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?	SCloud UHost Verified User Anonymous Chose SCloud UHost Both Azure and Oracle offer some sort of lock in, either by the initial discounts or software. What is truly locked in are our data and we really thought carefully from day one as we are a corporate. Even in thinking of going multi-cloud, we are afraid of big vendors like them. … Incentivized Helpful?

Features

DigitalOcean Droplets

SCloud UHost

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Product A and Product B
	DigitalOcean Droplets - Ratings	SCloud UHost 8.9 Ratings 10% above category average
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime	00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Dynamic scaling	00 Ratings	7.00 Ratings
Elastic load balancing	00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Pre-configured templates	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Monitoring tools	00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images	00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Operating system support	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	DigitalOcean Droplets	SCloud UHost
Small Businesses	Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Score 8.9 out of 10	DigitalOcean Droplets Score 8.7 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	SAP on IBM Cloud Score 9.5 out of 10	SAP on IBM Cloud Score 9.5 out of 10
Enterprises	SAP on IBM Cloud Score 9.5 out of 10	SAP on IBM Cloud Score 9.5 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	DigitalOcean Droplets	SCloud UHost
Likelihood to Recommend	9.9 (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	DigitalOcean Droplets	SCloud UHost
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	SCloud UHost offers scalable and reliable cloud compute instances with diverse configurations for varied application needs that ensures optimal performance. Its consistent speed and minimal downtime enhance overall reliability, contributing to uninterrupted business operations. SCloud UHost's seamless integration with SCloud services streamlines our cloud ecosystem for operational efficiency. SCloud UHost is less suited for small workloads if you wish to maximise per dollar spent. For smaller workloads, use SCloud ULightHost instead. 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	Good pricing Customer Support Available Regions Incentivized Verified User Anonymous 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	No answers on this topic
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	No answers on this topic
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	Both Azure and Oracle offer some sort of lock in, either by the initial discounts or software. What is truly locked in are our data and we really thought carefully from day one as we are a corporate. Even in thinking of going multi-cloud, we are afraid of big vendors like them. We came across SCloud UHost in an event and proceeded to try and never regretted onwards. Good job to the SCloud UHost team and their management for such great products at competitive prices. 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	Time to Market 10-15% faster Spending on compute 15-25% lower Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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