DigitalOcean vs. IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
| Product | Rating | Most Used By | Product Summary | Starting Price |
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 DigitalOcean | Score9 out of 10 | N/A | DigitalOcean 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 |
 IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers | Score8.7 out of 10 | N/A | IBM Cloud bare metal servers are cloud servers configurable in hourly/monthly options, on-demand, from any location—with a selection of standard features and services for small businesses and enterprise demands. Users can customize RAM and SSDs with 11M+ configurations from which to choose. | $0.51 per hour |
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| Additional Details | — | IBM Bare Metal Servers offer a choice between hourly or monthly pre-configured servers or can be customized with single to quad processing solutions. Bare metal servers are available worldwide and with no monthly contracts. Amonthly bare metal server built to spec can be ordered and made available in two to four hours—with 500 GB/month outbound bandwidth included. An hourly bare metal server can be ordered, and it is made ready for in 20 to 30 minutes. Public outbound bandwidth is charged per gigabyte. | ||||||||||||||
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 8.2 | 8.2 |
| Likelihood to Renew | 9.0 | - |
| Usability | 8.0 | - |
| Availability | 10.0 | - |
| Performance | 9.0 | - |
| Support Rating | 8.8 | 7.3 |
| Implementation Rating | - | 8.0 |
| Product Scalability | 10.0 | - |