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DigitalOcean Droplets vs. UpCloud

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
UpCloud
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
UpCloud is a global cloud hosting company offering cloud servers on an hourly billed infrastructure-as-a-service. Their IaaS services include MaxIOPS block storage, their Simple backup service, SDN services, and resource isolation.
$0.09
per month per GB
Pricing
DigitalOcean DropletsUpCloud
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
Private Cloud Storage
€0.085
per month per GB
Block Storage - Standard
€0.085
per month
Block Storage - MaxIOPS
€0.220
per month
SDN Private Networks - Floating IP address
€3.15
per month
Private Cloud Hosts -Standard Nodes
€2,499
per month
Cloud Servers - General Purpose
Starting from €7
per month
GPU Servers
Starting from €1.111
per hour
Cloud Servers - High CPU
Starting from €130
per month
Cloud Servers - Developer
Starting from €3
per month
Cloud Servers - High Memory
Starting from €40
per month
Cloud Servers - Cloud Native
Starting from €12
per month
Relational Databases - 1 Node
Starting from €30
per month
Managed Object Storage
starting from €5
per month 250GB
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
DigitalOcean DropletsUpCloud
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
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.Exact prices depend on memory and CPU demands.
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Community Pulse
DigitalOcean DropletsUpCloud
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.
UpCloud
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose UpCloud
We trialed UpCloud to see if it would be better than DigitalOcean but for our needs, it was not. On DigitalOcean once a droplet is created, almost no thought needs to go into maintenance, outages, or other reliability-based issues.
Features
DigitalOcean DropletsUpCloud
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Product A and Product B
DigitalOcean Droplets
-
Ratings
UpCloud
6.0
Ratings
29% below category average
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Dynamic scaling00 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Elastic load balancing00 Ratings4.50 Ratings
Pre-configured templates00 Ratings2.70 Ratings
Monitoring tools00 Ratings6.40 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images00 Ratings4.50 Ratings
Operating system support00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Security controls00 Ratings5.50 Ratings
Automation00 Ratings5.50 Ratings
Best Alternatives
DigitalOcean DropletsUpCloud
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
SAP on IBM Cloud
SAP on IBM Cloud
Score 9.5 out of 10
Enterprises
SAP on IBM Cloud
SAP on IBM Cloud
Score 9.5 out of 10
SAP on IBM Cloud
SAP on IBM Cloud
Score 9.5 out of 10
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User Ratings
DigitalOcean DropletsUpCloud
Likelihood to Recommend
9.9
(0 ratings)
5.5
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
DigitalOcean DropletsUpCloud
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're looking for a cost-effective solution then this is a good choice, be sure to keep on top of your balance! The 100% uptime is also a nice addition, although not unique in a cloud hosting service.
Verified User
Anonymous
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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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  • Pricing
  • Ease of use - super easy to manage existing servers and deploy new ones
  • Great customer service
Verified User
Anonymous
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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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  • The billing reports are quite hard to read, could be simplified
  • A control panel function would be useful
  • The re-billing process could be better, not so cut throat if you miss a payment!
Verified User
Anonymous
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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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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.
LA
Laila Abouizza
Backend Developer
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We trialed UpCloud to see if it would be better than DigitalOcean but for our needs, it was not. On DigitalOcean once a droplet is created, almost no thought needs to go into maintenance, outages, or other reliability-based issues.
Verified User
Anonymous
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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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  • The low cost means you don't really need to worry about pricing
  • To us as a business it was not as useful as DigitalOcean
Verified User
Anonymous
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