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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

    Liquid Web

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ALiquid Web is a fully managed hosting service, boasting VPS hosting on the Storm Platform, and cloud dedicated hosting on the Storm Platform. Liquid Web supports managed WordPress, managed WooCommerce, VMware Private Cloud, as well as HIPAA and PCI compliant hosting, high availability database hosting, and dedicated or server clusters available for a variety of purposes, as well as websites.

    $19

    per month

    Pricing
    DigitalOceanLiquid Web
    Editions & Modules
    1GB-16GB
    $5.00
    Starting Price Per Month
    8GB-160GB
    $60.00
    Starting Price Per Month
    Managed WordPress
    $19
    per month
    Managed WooCommerce
    $19
    per month
    VPS
    $35
    per month
    Magenta Cloud
    $49
    per month
    Cloud Dedicated
    $149
    per month
    Private VPS Parent
    $149
    per month
    Dedicated
    $169
    per month
    Cloud Servers
    $265
    per month
    HIPPA
    $343
    per month
    Server Clusters
    $743
    per month
    High Performance
    1,127
    per month
    High Availability
    1,448
    per month
    Database Hosting
    1,498
    per month
    VMware Private Cloud
    1,599
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    DigitalOceanLiquid Web
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    DigitalOceanLiquid Web
    Considered Both Products
    DigitalOcean
    Chose DigitalOcean
    DigitalOcean has a much lower price point for VPS - but they are not fully managed as with other services. DigitalOcean VPSs are good for quick simple applications that we are comfortable and efficient at deploying ourselves. We do not generally recommend them for clients, as …
    Incentivized
    Liquid Web Inc.
    Chose Liquid Web
    The only other serious contender was DigitalOcean. Media Temple and GoDaddy are both terrible. While I liked DigitalOcean and the amount of flexibility it offered, we opted for a managed solution to lighten the workload for us. So, in the end, we picked Liquid-Web and we have …
    Incentivized
    Chose Liquid Web
    For me, Liquid-Web is the best overlap of:
    - Web hosting standardized Tools & Software
    - Quality Product (Reliable, Well-Performing)
    Incentivized
    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
    DigitalOceanLiquid Web
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of DigitalOcean and Liquid Web
    Feature
    DigitalOcean
    8.3
    33 Ratings
    Liquid Web
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    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
    User Ratings
    DigitalOceanLiquid Web
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.2
    (33 ratings)
    10.0
    (6 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.8
    (9 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)