DigitalOcean vs. Redis Cloud

DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean

129 Reviews and Ratings

Redis Cloud

Redis Cloud

10 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
DigitalOcean	Score 8.8 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
Redis Cloud	Score 10.0 out of 10	N/A	Redis Labs in Mountain View, California offers Redis Enterperise Cloud, available on AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, delivered as a service and boasting maximal uptime, easy migration with on-prem deployments of Redis, designed to enable users to run any query, simple or complex, at sub-millisecond performance at virtually infinite scale without worrying about operational complexity or service availability. *Redis is a trademark of Redis Ltd. Any rights therein are reserved to Redis…	N/A

Pricing

DigitalOcean

Redis Cloud

Editions & Modules

1GB-16GB: $5.00
Starting Price Per Month
8GB-160GB: $60.00
Starting Price Per Month

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
DigitalOcean	Redis Cloud
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	DigitalOcean	Redis Cloud
Considered Both Products	DigitalOcean Vinaya Kumar B Engineering Lead Chose DigitalOcean The target segment of DigitalOcean is application developers and small teams working in startups for easily configuring and deploying infrastructure in the cloud. We selected DigitalOcean for some of our usecases as it is cost effective and easy to integrate with compared to … Incentivized Helpful? Jan Saggiori Director Chose DigitalOcean Simple, and quick setup, competitive pricing as well as geographically you can choose the location of the datacenter. The setup of the machine with RAM / CPU and SDD gives all options, it is just what we always needed and find our self very well with such type of service by … Incentivized Helpful? Fernando Orozco CTO Chose DigitalOcean I chose DigitalOcean over Oracle Cloud because it's simpler, more cost-effective, and quicker to deploy. DigitalOcean’s intuitive interface allows me to manage servers easily, while Oracle Cloud is more complex and suited for larger enterprises. Also, DigitalOcean’s transparent … Incentivized Helpful? Krzysztof Falcman Lead Backend Engineer Chose DigitalOcean DigitalOcean Spaces Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose DigitalOcean DigitalOcean is an inexpensive product as compared to other products available in the market. The UI is easy and the beginner can also understand the UI with the step by step guide. It provides a lot of custom features and the user needs to pay only for what they are using. … Incentivized Helpful? AS Antoine St-Pierre Digital Automation Manager Chose DigitalOcean DigitalOcean is really one of the cheapest options out there for dedicated servers. Plus, their pay-per-use pricing helps companies to grow at their own pace without having to pay for a higher performance or service they don't need initially. Their platform is well built and … Incentivized Helpful? Marco Carnevali VP Products Chose DigitalOcean DigitalOcean is an easier and cheaper way to [set up] new machines. The UX is really good and it's easy to find what you need. Competition offer[s] a complicated way to manage machines and the cost is sometimes more than [...] double of what DigitalOcean offer[s]. However[,] … Incentivized Helpful? Bobby Johnson Co-Founder / Full Stack Dev Chose DigitalOcean As I have said, DigitalOcean was slightly more expensive than something like HostGator, but the amount of customization and quality of service make it worth any difference. AWS was always a pain to set up and use, but DigitalOcean makes it cake. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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 Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose DigitalOcean Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Heroku Platform and Google Compute Engine Incentivized Helpful? Leonel Quinteros Director of Technology Chose DigitalOcean Digital Ocean is easier to start with and was a great choice for that project. On other projects, I may choose Google Cloud products because of their more complex product offerings and advanced features. Products like Storage or Pub/Sub isn't available on Digital Ocean and the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose DigitalOcean DigitalOcean can be seen more like a Rackspace or a similar provider. They aren't offering more extended services such as AWS Redshift of something on a larger scale. They are great for just vanilla virtualization and maintaining uptime for those resources across a large set of … Incentivized Helpful? Fedor Paretsky Co-Founder/CEO Chose DigitalOcean Amazon has a very complex UI and many products to offer. They haven't polished up their UI and it has a much greater learning curve compared to DigitalOcean. However, Amazon Web Services (AWS) does have more comprehensive cloud computing services, which forces some companies to … Incentivized Helpful? Tarun Mangukiya Co-Founder Chose DigitalOcean Initially we started using DigitalOcean due to their pricing point as we were in development phase. Slowly when we used it, we starting liking it a lot as it is very fast & easy to get started, compared to the other Cloud Providers we've used. Also they have blogs and … Incentivized Helpful? Jeanine Schoessler Web Developer Chose DigitalOcean Site5's customer service and support have declined over the recent years. The last couple of tickets that I submitted in 2016 were never addressed by their help team. The only customer service agent seems to be on their Twitter account. Site5 does not allow any configuration of … Incentivized Helpful? Praneeth Karnena Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief Chose DigitalOcean Vultr is a new player in the game. They don't advertise their hardware model and for that reason, people may not trust them. I have run few benchmarks on Vultr, they performed slightly better than DigitalOcean but they aren't trustworthy. Their transparency index is very low … Incentivized Helpful? Craig Nash Sr. Network Engineer Chose DigitalOcean Compared service to service, Digitalocean comes out on top usually, for smaller better spec servers. This is what they do, and specialty shops are always the best route, with no exception here. However, if you need more than a server, or are not comfortable doing more than … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose DigitalOcean Cheaper than Heroku which is prohibitively expensive for a small self-funded startup. We quickly outgrew their free tier and migrated to DigitalOcean. AWS is more feature complete however, we found its maintenance overly confusing and not as well thought out. For many use cases … Incentivized Helpful? Chris Putnam Senior Web Developer 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 Helpful? Tyler Longren IT Consultant 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 Helpful? Hernán Silva Front-end developer Chose DigitalOcean AWS: Too complex to set things up. Period. Mediatemple: Great features, services and customer service. Prices are a bit high for what they offer. Linode: Outstanding features and customer support. Difficult to start with for novice users. Incentivized Helpful? Chris Gabriel Interactive Designer & Developer Chose DigitalOcean My cost savings were significant and I felt like I was much more in control of the hardware and processes. I also had issues with certain marketing decisions my former hosting company made, DigitalOcean was an easy choice! Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose DigitalOcean DigitalOcean's dead simple pricing and solid but basic feature set combine for a no-nonsense way to get your product shipped. Its API makes it nicely scriptable/automate-able compared to traditional shared hosting providers like Dreamhost. I think it compares most closely with … Incentivized Helpful? Joey Yax Web Developer Chose DigitalOcean Linode was my long time go-to and we still have several sites hosted and maintained on their servers. Initially, I was skeptical of DigitalOcean's pricing, but they've proven to be an excellent alternative. Linode is more mature in their toolset, but both are really great … Incentivized Helpful? Edward Larkey Linux System Administrator Chose DigitalOcean It was the right balance of cost, ease of use, and support. Incentivized Helpful?	Redis Cloud Verified User Anonymous Chose Redis Cloud We primarily selected Redis Cloud for 3 reason—it's performance and reliability, the overall low cost, and it can easily be scaled to meet our needs as we grow. More secondary to those reasons were the ease of use and how it could be used within our current technology stack … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Redis Cloud I've used Heroku Redis and RedisToGo. Redis Cloud has the best free/developer plan, and we have never had an issue. Incentivized Helpful?

Features

DigitalOcean

Redis Cloud

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Product A and Product B
	DigitalOcean 8.3 Ratings 3% above category average	Redis Cloud - Ratings
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime	9.20 Ratings	00 Ratings
Dynamic scaling	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Elastic load balancing	7.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Pre-configured templates	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Monitoring tools	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images	7.60 Ratings	00 Ratings
Operating system support	8.40 Ratings	00 Ratings
Security controls	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Automation	5.00 Ratings	00 Ratings

Database-as-a-Service

Comparison of Database-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
	DigitalOcean - Ratings	Redis Cloud 8.5 Ratings 2% below category average
Automatic software patching	00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Database scalability	00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Automated backups	00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Database security provisions	00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Monitoring and metrics	00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Automatic host deployment	00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	DigitalOcean	Redis Cloud
Small Businesses	DigitalOcean Droplets Score 8.7 out of 10	IBM Cloudant Score 7.4 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	SAP on IBM Cloud Score 9.5 out of 10	IBM Cloudant Score 7.4 out of 10
Enterprises	SAP on IBM Cloud Score 9.5 out of 10	IBM Cloudant Score 7.4 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	DigitalOcean	Redis Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend	8.2 (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	8.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Availability	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	9.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	8.8 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	DigitalOcean	Redis Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend	DigitalOcean is a powerful tool with respect to the services and pricing that it offers. It is easier than other products and also provides servers that are inexpensive with great performance. DigitalOcean also offers additional add-ons such as additional IP addresses, scheduling of backups, etc. One of the best advantages is that it is efficient and is open source. Although, it is suited for a firm that is looking to cut down cost. Also, it is not suited for an organization where the dev/platform/DBA team is less experienced. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Redis Cloud is great for quick and easy development as well as deployment. It's reliable in production and makes a great primary Redis solution. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Ease of use - You can get set up with a new server in a matter of minutes. It doesn't get any easier than that. Support - The public forums are incredibly helpful as are the official help articles. I've never needed to contact the support team because of this. All of the information is at my fingertips. Pricing - We're only paying $10/mo for a solution that gives our customers more confidence in us and is a selling point for us. Incentivized Chris Widner VP of Technology & Human Resources Read full review	Ease of setup and deployment via Heroku Reliability and splicity Fair pricing Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Some products/services available on other Cloud providers aren't available, but they seem to be catching up as they add new products like Managed SQL DBs. While they have FreeBSD droplets (VMs), support for *BSD OSs is limited. I.e. the new monitoring agent only works on Linux. There are no regions available on South America. They don't seem to offer enterprise-level products, even basic ones as Windows Server, MS SQL Server, Oracle products, etc. Incentivized Leonel Quinteros Director of Technology Read full review	The only area of improvement I have found is the documentation is sometimes lacking and could be a little more comprehensive. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	I've been very happy with it for my purposes and I plan to continue to use DigitalOcean for the foreseeable future! Incentivized Creede Lambard Devops Engineer Read full review	No answers on this topic
Usability	With DigitalOcean it is very easy to start up a server/droplet. They have several templates and server images to select from, and they have good instructions on how to get a server set up and started. The monitoring tools in the dashboard look good and are easy to understand. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Reliability and Availability	Have not found a single second of down time myself. Superior availability. Incentivized Hernán Silva Front-end developer Read full review	No answers on this topic
Performance	Very quick response and high performance, you have to fine tune configurations on your machines though. Incentivized Hernán Silva Front-end developer Read full review	No answers on this topic
Support Rating	They have always been fast, and the process has been straight-forward. I haven't had to use it enough to be frustrated with it, to be honest, and when I have an issue they fix it. As with all support, I wish it felt more human, but they are doing aces. Incentivized Bobby Johnson Co-Founder / Full Stack Dev Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	I chose DigitalOcean over Oracle Cloud because it's simpler, more cost-effective, and quicker to deploy. DigitalOcean’s intuitive interface allows me to manage servers easily, while Oracle Cloud is more complex and suited for larger enterprises. Also, DigitalOcean’s transparent pricing helps control costs, unlike Oracle’s more intricate and complex pricing model. Incentivized Fernando Orozco CTO Read full review	We primarily selected Redis Cloud for 3 reason—it's performance and reliability, the overall low cost, and it can easily be scaled to meet our needs as we grow. More secondary to those reasons were the ease of use and how it could be used within our current technology stack without issue. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Scalability	Great scalability, you can start with small plans and move up to premium features at a very good price. Incentivized Hernán Silva Front-end developer Read full review	No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	DigitalOcean has very competitive egress pricing, which has been positive for reducing our costs when running services with a large amounts of data transfer DigitalOcean templates have helped us quickly launch services that would otherwise require a lot of configuration (saving time) We haven't had much in the way of negative ROI impacts using DigitalOcean as we don't use it extensively for our core product, but based on personal project experience it can require more engineering time to get up and running with than some other infrastructure services like Heroku. This has been one of the greatest barriers in pushing its adoption in our organization. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Redis Cloud is very affordable and therefore the cost is negligible when compared to the benefits— immediate ROI with very little startup costs. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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