DigitalOcean Droplets vs. VMware ESXi
| Product | Rating | Most Used By | Product Summary | Starting Price |
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 DigitalOcean Droplets | Score8.8 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 |
 VMware ESXi | Score7.6 out of 10 | N/A | A bare-metal hypervisor that installs directly onto a physical server. With direct access to and control of underlying resources, VMware ESXi partitions hardware to consolidate applications and cut costs. | N/A |
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| Entry-level Setup Fee | No setup fee | No setup fee | ||||||||||||||
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 9.9 | 9.0 |
| Likelihood to Renew | - | 10.0 |
| Usability | - | 9.0 |
| Availability | - | 10.0 |
| Performance | - | 9.0 |
| Support Rating | - | 10.0 |
| Implementation Rating | - | 10.0 |
| Configurability | - | 10.0 |
| Contract Terms and Pricing Model | - | 5.1 |
| Ease of integration | - | 10.0 |
| Product Scalability | - | 10.0 |
| Vendor post-sale | - | 10.0 |
| Vendor pre-sale | - | 10.0 |