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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    DigitalOcean

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/ADigitalOcean is an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform from the company of the same name headquartered in New York. It is known for its support of managed Kubernetes clusters and “droplets” feature.

    $5

    Starting Price Per Month

    Google App Engine

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/AGoogle App Engine is Google Cloud's platform-as-a-service offering. It features pay-per-use pricing and support for a broad array of programming languages.

    $0.05

    Per Hour Per Instance

    Pricing
    DigitalOceanGoogle App Engine
    Editions & Modules
    1GB-16GB
    $5.00
    Starting Price Per Month
    8GB-160GB
    $60.00
    Starting Price Per Month
    Starting Price
    $0.05
    Per Hour Per Instance
    Max Price
    $0.30
    Per Hour Per Instance
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    DigitalOceanGoogle App Engine
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    DigitalOceanGoogle App Engine
    Considered Both Products
    DigitalOcean
    Chose DigitalOcean
    DigitalOcean is not quite as simple as Heroku to get up and running, but it provides a better price point and more configurability. However, in my opinion it's much simpler to get up and running with than AWS OpsWorks and even Google App Engine. It also provides a better price …
    Incentivized
    Chose DigitalOcean
    DigitalOcean isn't nearly as robust as Google Cloud. DigitalOcean provides VPSs, as does Google Cloud. However, Google Cloud offers many other products as well.

    ChunkHost is very similar to DigitalOcean, but doesn't have the infrastructure that DigitalOcean has. Geographical …
    Incentivized
    Google
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    DigitalOceanGoogle App Engine
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of DigitalOcean and Google App Engine
    Feature
    DigitalOcean
    8.3
    33 Ratings
    Google App Engine
    -
    Ratings
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime9.228 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling9.029 Ratings00 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing7.021 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates10.027 Ratings00 Ratings
    Monitoring tools10.032 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images7.531 Ratings00 Ratings
    Operating system support8.331 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security controls9.029 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automation5.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of DigitalOcean and Google App Engine
    Feature
    DigitalOcean
    -
    Ratings
    Google App Engine
    8.7
    31 Ratings
    Ease of building user interfaces00 Ratings9.017 Ratings
    Scalability00 Ratings9.031 Ratings
    Platform management overhead00 Ratings9.031 Ratings
    Workflow engine capability00 Ratings9.023 Ratings
    Platform access control00 Ratings9.030 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration00 Ratings8.027 Ratings
    Development environment creation00 Ratings9.028 Ratings
    Development environment replication00 Ratings8.027 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification00 Ratings9.027 Ratings
    Issue recovery00 Ratings9.025 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes00 Ratings8.028 Ratings
    User Ratings
    DigitalOceanGoogle App Engine
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.2
    (33 ratings)
    8.0
    (35 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.3
    (8 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (7 ratings)
    7.7
    (7 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.8
    (9 ratings)
    8.4
    (12 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)