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Introducing New Enhanced Features for DigitalOcean Support Plans

We are excited to announce new, enhanced features coming to the DigitalOcean Support Plans at no additional cost. Features include resolution time estimates and a customer monthly report.

How ISVs and startups scale on DigitalOcean Kubernetes: Best practices for DOKS adoption

By leveraging the potential of Kubernetes, ISVs can easily manage containerized applications and automate the deployment, scaling, and management of those applications.

Introducing Horizontal Scaling for DigitalOcean Managed Kafka

We're excited to announce Horizontal Scaling for Managed Kafka, empowering our customers to handle increasing data volumes and traffic, improve the reliability of their clusters, and optimize resources.

DigitalOcean partners with Tabnine to bring the power of AI-enabled software development to startups and developers globally

DigitalOcean is excited to announce a strategic partnership with Tabnine to bring AI coding assistant to developers, startups, and growing digital businesses across the world.

DigitalOcean Partners With Beaconhouse National University (BNU) to Catalyze Inclusive Entrepreneurship in Pakistan

Helping millions of developers easily build, test, manage, and scale applications of any size - faster than ever before.

Driving Inclusive Entrepreneurship with DO Impact

Today DigitalOcean is excited to announce our latest philanthropic initiative focused on fostering inclusive entrepreneurship for under-represented founders in key areas.

Driving Inclusive Entrepreneurship with DO Impact

Today DigitalOcean is excited to announce our latest philanthropic initiative focused on fostering inclusive entrepreneurship for under-represented founders in key areas.

A look back at the second official year of DO Impact

In our second year, DO Impact gave $500K+ in cash grants and employee-driven donations to 725 organizations, activated DO Sharks to give back to organizations, and expanded our nonprofit support with infrastructure credits. Plus, a look at what's ahead in 2024.

Introducing the next evolution of DigitalOcean Backups

Powerful enhancements to DigitalOcean Backups now include daily Droplet backups, faster backup times and configurable backup windows. Maximize data protection for your critical workloads by setting up daily backups for your Droplets.

Cilium Hubble now included with DigitalOcean Kubernetes at no cost

DigitalOcean introduces Cilium Hubble, offering advanced network visibility and security for Kubernetes clusters.

Dolphin: Mastering the Art of Automated Droplet Movement

Introducing Dolphin: the system responsible for moving thousands of Droplets around the fleet every day in order to optimize performance, avoid unnecessary server maintenance, and pack our servers as full as possible - all without any customer impact.

Accelerate your ISV journey with DigitalOcean's powerful cloud platform in 2024

In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, choosing the right cloud provider is crucial to your success. While the hyperscalers influence the enterprise market, I want to shed light on how DigitalOcean continues to serve as the superior platform alternative for startups, growing digital businesses and early to advanced ISVs (Independent Software Vendors).

Paperspace by DigitalOcean now offering NVIDIA H100 GPUs

Powerful NVIDIA H100 GPUs now on Paperspace

Hacktoberfest Post-Event Survey Results

We wanted to hear from you, the community, about what you love about Hacktoberfest and what could be improved as we plan 2024’s event. We sent a survey to everyone who signed up to participate in Hacktoberfest 2023 to gather direct, transparent feedback from the people who make Hacktoberfest what it is.

Partnering with DigitalOcean: Unleashing Growth Opportunities for ISVs

ISVs face unique challenges in product development, deployment, and management. They require cloud infrastructure that is not only robust and secure but also flexible and efficient to accommodate the rapid pace of software iterations and the diverse needs of their clientele.

The Massive Global Expansion of DigitalOcean Spaces Built-in CDN brings Seamless Connectivity

DigitalOcean is thrilled to announce a substantial expansion of our built-in Content Delivery Network (CDN) points of presence (PoPs) within Spaces Object Storage, now featuring 274 global PoPs.

The Evolving Needs of Cloud Buyers and Vendor Selection

Helping millions of developers easily build, test, manage, and scale applications of any size - faster than ever before.

Turbocharge Your Business with a Black Friday Cyber Monday Deal from Cloudways

Cloudways is currently offering our best deal of the year—40% off our hosting plans for 4 months for new users.

The 10th anniversary of Hacktoberfest is a wrap!

Hacktoberfest, a month-long celebration of open-source software, has once again joyfully brought individuals together worldwide to contribute to open-source projects during the month of October.

Try the DigitalOcean API directly from our documentation

The API "Try it out" feature allows DigitalOcean customers to test API calls directly from the product documentation website. This enables our customers to securely explore what our API has to offer them without setting up test environments or third-party API platforms.

Startups and SMBs finding success with DigitalOcean Managed Kafka

Helping millions of developers easily build, test, manage, and scale applications of any size - faster than ever before.

Top Ten Reasons Why Small and Medium-Sized Businesses Should Adopt DigitalOcean As Their Cloud Provider

Learn why adopting DigitalOcean as your primary cloud provider can significantly bolster your business's operational efficiency, innovation, and growth trajectory.

Protect your Droplet data from accidental data loss with independent backup deletion dates

Independent backup deletion dates

Introducing Scalable Storage for PostgreSQL and MySQL Managed Databases

Meet DigitalOcean’s new Scalable Storage for PostgreSQL and MySQL—your straightforward solution to effortlessly scale database storage.

How to participate in Hacktoberfest

There are many ways for people of all skill levels to contribute to open source during Hacktoberfest, even for folks who aren’t technical.

Introducing Premium General Purpose Droplets

Introducing DigitalOcean Premium General Purpose Droplets

Introducing DigitalOcean Managed Kafka

Helping millions of developers easily build, test, manage, and scale applications of any size – faster than ever before.

What's new and what's next at DigitalOcean: Managed Kafka, more Droplet choices, GPUs for AI/ML apps, and more

Never before has DigitalOcean been better suited to help startups and small businesses thrive. We’re excited to announce several product enhancements that we’re committed to launching in coming months, starting with DigitalOcean Managed Kafka, which is available right now.

Driving impact with DO for Nonprofits & Social Enterprises

DO Impact is excited to announce the launch of the DO for Nonprofits & Social Entreprises program. This program builds upon Hollie’s Hub for Good by offering more benefits and services to these important customers.

Founder Q&A: Dillon Erb and Daniel Kobran of Paperspace on their recent DigitalOcean acquisition and the future of AI

DigitalOcean recently acquired Paperspace, a leading provider of cloud infrastructure for highly scalable GPU-accelerated applications, such as AI/ML applications. We spoke with the Paperspace founders, Dillon Erb and Daniel Kobran, about how Paperspace first came to be, the challenges and successes they’ve faced as they grew, and what they think is next for the fast-growing AI industry.

Celebrating ten years of Hacktoberfest!

This October we’re excited to kick off a very special month of open source contributions—our tenth annual Hacktoberfest

Announcing new Basic Premium Droplet plans

Additional Basic Premium Droplet plans are now available

Maximizing savings and security: Why tech startups should opt for ACH payments for cloud services

An Automated Clearing House payment or ACH is an electronic payment method that enables you to transfer funds between bank accounts in the US. ACH payments are commonly used for payroll, vendor payments, and direct debits. Setting up ACH payments is as easy as providing your bank information.

Simplify and scale your Kubernetes workloads with Spaces Object Storage

By combining the scalability, simplicity, and flexibility of Spaces with the power of Kubernetes, you can optimize your infrastructure, streamline workflows, and elevate the performance of your applications.

Paperspace Joins DigitalOcean to Expand AI Capabilities

Paperspace Joins DigitalOcean to Expand AI Capabilities

Introducing Spaces Object Storage in Bangalore, India

Stored unstructured data at scale in DigitalOcean's Bangalore data center

Introducing LaunchKit: Streamline your infrastructure deployment on DigitalOcean - now in Beta

Learn how LaunchKit can simply the process of setting up a virtual private network for your business.

Introducing support for DigitalOcean Kubernetes backups with SnapShooter

Backup your DigitalOcean Kubernetes applications with SnapShooter

Harnessing the Power of Multi-Data Center Cloud Deployment

Learn the advantages of multi-data center cloud deployment and how businesses can utilize this strategy to bolster resilience, ensure data availability, and improve system performance across the globe.

DigitalOcean launches Partner Directory

DigitalOcean is happy to announce the launch of our new Partner Directory. The Partner Directory provides customers with the ability to find DO partners with the expertise and technical skills to help solve their business problems.

Create delightful gaming experiences with Premium CPU-Optimized Droplets

Discover how Premium CPU-Optimized Droplets are perfect for gaming apps

Announcing a redesigned DigitalOcean status page

Today we're excited to announce the redesign of our status page to better serve the needs of our customers.

How a Kubernetes high availability control plane maximizes uptime and fortifies reliability

Understand the importance of an HA control plane for Kubernetes clusters. What happens when your control plane goes down? How does it affect your worker nodes and access to your cluster?

Backup Management for Docker-based Applications

Helping millions of developers easily build, test, manage, and scale applications of any size – faster than ever before.

Back up the modern cloud with SnapShooter

Helping millions of developers easily build, test, manage, and scale applications of any size – faster than ever before.

A Migration Success Story: How ScraperAPI’s DevOps team use App Platform to build their DigitalOcean Kubernetes Apps

Learn how ScraperAPI sped up new feature releases by starting on the DigitalOcean App Platform and migrating to DOKS.

How to choose a data center location for your business

Helping millions of developers easily build, test, manage, and scale applications of any size – faster than ever before.

Deliver exceptional experiences with our newest data center in Sydney - SYD1

Helping millions of developers easily build, test, manage, and scale applications of any size – faster than ever before.

How Battlesnake’s game engages with thousands of developers using DigitalOcean

Battlesnake uses DigitalOcean solutions including App Platform to scale across multiple regions, reduce latency, and give developers a seamless gaming experience. Hear from their founder, Brad Van Vugt, on how the team has scaled up while staying true to their mission.

Game hosting: How to choose the best infrastructure provider for your game

How to choose the best infrastructure to host your game and ensure it has fast, reliable performance. Factors to consider for gaming hosting.

Introducing Premium CPU-Optimized Droplets | DigitalOcean

Introducing DigitalOcean Premium CPU-Optimized Droplets for reliable performance & higher network throughput

Founder Diaries: SnapShooter's journey from bootstrapped to acquired

As part of our Founder Diaries series, SnapShooter shares the lessons they've learned as they've built their business.

Secure network connectivity across distributed clouds for SMBs

Many small- to medium-sized businesses (SMB) and startups have remote employees and cloud workloads across multiple regions. This can create complex networking challenges that many businesses struggle to solve.

Latest products and features at DigitalOcean: January 2023

Happy New Year and Black History Month! Last year was one of growth for DigitalOcean. We inaugurated a new Australian data center (SYD1), our storage and App platform are faster, and DOKS introduced another uptime SLA. Our much anticipated serverless offering, DigitalOcean Functions, allows for higher developer productivity and lower operating costs. We also connected with builders at our annual deploy conference, and more. Check out the latest updates and enhancements below.

Fine-Grained RBAC For GitHub Action Workflows With GitHub OIDC and HashiCorp Vault

Helping millions of developers easily build, test, manage, and scale applications of any size – faster than ever before.

How four businesses scale faster with DigitalOcean Managed Kubernetes

DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) can remove some of the complexities associated with containerization and Kubernetes management, helping small businesses access technology that was previously out of reach. Here's how four businesses leverage it for their growth.

Cloud Backup Best Practices for SMBs

Cloud backups can sometimes be overlooked, but backing up important work is a critical need. Here are just a few reasons startups and SMBs should have a comprehensive backup plan in place.

DigitalOcean employee resource groups make a splash by donating $100K to charitable organizations

At DigitalOcean, we believe that our community is bigger than just us. In 2022, our ERGs donated $100,000 to organizations that matter to them and their communities.

Introducing the DigitalOcean Developer Center

We are proud to announce the launch of the DigitalOcean Developer Center, a curated experience to help developers learn and build with DigitalOcean products and services.

Collaborate smarter with DigitalOcean Hatch’s January 2023 Startup of the Month: Ourspace

Learn how Ourspace has leveraged DigitalOcean to build a collaborative team design platform that helps product and tech leaders make better decisions.

Enabling Engineering Teams Through Developer-First Secrets Management

Secrets management is a challenge that every organization must tackle. This article goes through the challenges with shifting left and how to develop developer-first secrets management.

DigitalOcean's journey to Python Client generation

In this blog post, we will dive into our journey of building our new Python Client, and how we used code generation to create the SDK.

A Look Back at the First Official Year of DO Impact

Here’s a recap of progress and highlights from the first official year of DO Impact

Partner post: Why you need monitoring

In this post from DigitalOcean partner Plesk, we explore why you need monitoring for your business.

DigitalOcean expands backup capabilities with acquisition of SnapShooter

To better enable startups and SMBs to protect their cloud data across files, apps, and databases, we’re excited to announce DigitalOcean’s acquisition of SnapShooter, a backup and recovery solutions provider.

Securing your DigitalOcean account

Data breaches in the services we rely on can be scary. Check out these 5 ways you can improve the security of your DigitalOcean account.

2022 demonstrated the strength of small businesses

As 2022 comes to a close, we’re more committed than ever before to being the ideal cloud for SMBs, from SaaS applications and streaming businesses to agencies and eCommerce stores.

A day in the life with DigitalOcean's Customer Success Managers

We get to know DigitalOcean Senior Customer Success Manager Bella Nitonde and how she spends her days helping our customers reach their goals.

How Hachyderm leveraged DigitalOcean Spaces to scale their Mastodon community

As the Hachyderm Mastodon server grew rapidly, they leveraged DigitalOcean Spaces for their storage needs.

Remove complexities and move faster with these sessions from deploy

At this year’s deploy conference, we explored practical ways global development teams can remove complexities in their infrastructure in order to move faster and focus their attention on what matters most—their businesses.

Latest products and features at DigitalOcean: November 2022

This month we inaugurated a new Australian data center SYD1, increased the power of our storage, connected with builders at our annual deploy conference, and more.

AWS vs DigitalOcean: Which cloud platform is the best fit for you?

Comparing DigitalOcean vs AWS and what factors to take into account when choosing a cloud provider for startups and SMBs, including cost and support.

Understand your cloud bill | DigitalOcean

Learn how to best evaluate the four core components of cloud offerings including compute, storage, bandwidth, and support.

DigitalOcean + Let's Encrypt | DigitalOcean

In this post, we’ll walk through where DigitalOcean uses Let’s Encrypt, how our integration works, and some of the enhancements we’ve made along the way.

DO Impact at deploy | DigitalOcean

This year at deploy, the DO Impact team announced a new round of grants, interviewed nonprofits and social enterprises, and had a blast connecting with conference participants in our social impact Discord channel.

Hacktoberfest: Nine years of supporting open source projects through contribution

We’re thrilled that this year, 146,891 people from 194 different countries registered for Hacktoberfest and completed a total of 335,000 contributions during the month of October.

Latest products and features at DigitalOcean: October 2022 | DigitalOcean

This month, we’re excited to share a new generation of AMD Droplets, an increase to Spaces and Volumes Storage throughput limits, and the addition of periodic functions to Serverless.

Migrate any DigitalOcean Kubernetes cluster to the new control plane and add High Availability | DigitalOcean

We're excited to announce that you can migrate any DOKS cluster to the new control plane and enable HA.

Performance Upgrades to Spaces Object Storage and Volumes Block Storage | DigitalOcean

Today we are happy to announce that the performance of our Volumes Block Storage has been increased by 50% and the performance of our Spaces Object Storage has been increased by 100%.

Introducing DigitalOcean’s state-of-the-art data center in Sydney, Australia

We're thrilled to announce our newest data center in Sydney, Australia!

DigitalOcean featured on Tomorrow's World Today

DigitalOcean was recently featured on Season 5 of the Emmy-nominated series Tomorrow’s World Today.

Get to know: Senior Technical Writer II Alex Garnett

We spoke with Alex Garnett, Senior Technical Writer II, about what it’s like to write for community.

Introducing Partner Pod, DigitalOcean’s new partner program

Today we are excited to announce the launch of DigitalOcean Partner Pod, our brand new partner program. Partner Pod expands on DigitalOcean’s commitment to partners and offers a new approach to partnerships that enables partners themselves to choose what benefits they receive.

KubeCon announcements: A Kube native way to manage DigitalOcean Managed Databases and egress traffic

This KubeCon we’re thrilled to announce our new operators that use Kubernetes automation and orchestration to manage DigitalOcean resources and a solution blueprint to manage egress traffic.

A strong alternative to Heroku: DigitalOcean App Platform

Heroku is a popular Platform as a Service offering, but DigitalOcean's App Platform is a strong alternative with benefits in terms of price and flexibility.

Helping entrepreneurs grow with Hatch | DigitalOcean

Find out what the Hatch team learned from surveying over 600 startups.

Prepare eCommerce infrastructure for the holiday season | DigitalOcean

Learn how you can prepare your infrastructure to handle peak loads this holiday season.

DigitalOcean Named to Newsweek’s 2022 Most Loved Workplaces List | DigitalOcean

We're thrilled to share that DigitalOcean has been named to Newsweek's Most Loved Workplaces list in 2022

Join us for deploy 2022 | DigitalOcean

You're invited to DigitalOcean's deploy conference, a virtual event for global development teams.

Latest Products and Features: September 2022 | DigitalOcean

Discover the latest product updates and enhancements at DigitalOcean.

Hacktoberfest 2022 | DigitalOcean

Hacktoberfest, our month-long celebration of the open-source community, is underway! Learn how you can participate and complete your mission for open source.

Supercharge your builds with the latest App Platform updates | DigitalOcean

Learn about the major updates we made to DigitalOcean App Platform, our fully managed Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution, that will significantly increase the speed and flexibility of deploying apps.

5 startup tax credits available in the US | DigitalOcean

Starting a new business is fun, exhilarating, and comes with the potential for immense success. Of course, it's also expensive. Cash running out, or the failure to get more capital, is often listed...

Intern Insights: Serverless Functions | DigitalOcean

For ten weeks in the summer, DigitalOcean interns join our teams to serve a robust and passionate community of developers, teams, and businesses around the world. In this series, we invite them to ...

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Report 2022

I am pleased to share our second annual Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) Report, which highlights our 2021 workforce data and outlines our progress against our DEIB goals. One of ...

Startup of the Month: Discz | DigitalOcean

Hatch is DigitalOcean’s global program for startups that helps businesses grow by offering infrastructure credit, support, a welcoming community, and so much more. The startup of the month series s...

Latest Products and Features | DigitalOcean

In August, the team at DigitalOcean was hard at work adding technology to increase performance and providing updates to help your business run smoothly. Check out the key product enhancements for y...

Announcing DigitalOcean Uptime | DigitalOcean

Providing a good user experience is critical to business success, and that experience depends on both availability (uptime) and response time (latency). We are excited to announce a new product fro...

Inside DigitalOcean's Reserved IP Rails migration | DigitalOcean

Reserved IPs (formerly named Floating IPs) is one of our oldest products, and it has changed little since its launch in 2015. As DigitalOcean grew over the years and more customers adopted Reserved...

Foundational metrics every business should care about

When you run a startup, you need to know the foundational metrics every business should care about. In a stage where every decision matters, focusing on the right priorities can lead to rapid growt...

A summer with the Kubernetes team | DigitalOcean

For ten weeks in the summer, DigitalOcean interns join our teams to serve a robust and passionate community of developers, teams, and businesses around the world. In this series, we invite them to ...

How to successfully bootstrap your startup | DigitalOcean

Founding a startup can be a world-changing endeavor. From amazing personal experiences to life-altering wealth, creating a business is filled with wonderful (and scary) moments. But to start a busi...

Cloudways to join DigitalOcean 

I’m very excited to share that this morning, we announced our intention to acquire Cloudways, the leading managed cloud hosting and SaaS provider for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). This ...

5 tips for a successful product launch | DigitalOcean

Building an exceptional product is the first step to success, but without effective messaging, startups and small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) may still struggle to reach their target market ...

Impact to DigitalOcean customers resulting from Mailchimp security incident

The security of DigitalOcean customers and their data is a responsibility we approach with utmost dedication. When our customers' security is threatened we respond swiftly, communicate with transpa...

Pros and Cons of Crowdfunding Your Startup | DigitalOcean

Crowdfunding is among the most popular means of raising capital for all types of businesses. It's also extremely successful, with crowdfunding generating $17.2 billion every year in North America a...

Latest products and features: July 2022 | DigitalOcean

In July,  the team at DigitalOcean has been hard at work on key product enhancements for your favorite offerings, including App Platform, DigitalOcean Storage options, developer solutions, and more. 

Beginner's guide to pre-seed funding | DigitalOcean

Many business owners and entrepreneurs are familiar with the concept of seed funding, but pre-seed funding is equally important to understand. Under the right circumstances, pre-seed funding may co...

Highlights from the first DigitalOcean Functions Challenge | DigitalOcean

To celebrate the launch of DigitalOcean Functions, we invited developers to experience the power of lightweight serverless compute with a fun activity. The DigitalOcean Functions Challenge was anno...

A Q&A with DigitalOcean's summer interns

We spoke with three of our summer interns, Shivani Kumar, David Hwang, and Carrie Wesley, to learn what their experience has been like at DigitalOcean. 

Use block storage to increase cloud server capacity | DigitalOcean

Rapidly growing businesses frequently need to increase their server’s capacity to address the increasing needs of their applications. This can be due to growing databases, an increase in file stora...

How to raise seed capital for your startup | DigitalOcean

Startups are often filled with ambitious ideas, growth-hungry team members, and excellent positioning. But most share one common problem: they lack funding. In fact, nearly 30 percent of startups f...

Startup funding explained: Series A, Series B, Series C

Startup funding can get confusing. Outside of bootstrapping a startup with founder funds, many early-stage businesses raise funding from a variety of sources. Understanding how to raise early fundi...

Successful Customer Acquisition for Startups | DigitalOcean

For many entrepreneurs attempting to monetize or build a business out of their products, what comes after the initial proof of concept is somewhat of a mystery. Most builders aren’t marketers and i...

JournalDev Joins DigitalOcean | DigitalOcean

At DigitalOcean, we’re deeply committed to supporting developer and startup communities. One of our core values, our community is bigger than just us, drives us to find ways to better foster growth...

Top tips for startups during an economic downturn

As the US confronts a bear market and heads towards a likely recession, technology companies and startups are already starting to take steps to protect themselves. News of hiring freezes, layoffs, ...

Improve the performance of your streaming application | DigitalOcean

A study by Grand View Research found that the global video streaming market alone was valued at $59.14 billion in 2021, and the market grows even more when we consider audio, streaming ads, and oth...

June Product Updates and Features | DigitalOcean

Every month we work hard to bring you the latest technological advancements and this hot summer brings even hotter updates at DigitalOcean. In June, we celebrated our one year partnership with Mong...

Effective messaging for startups | DigitalOcean

A startup needs more to be successful than a brilliant idea and funding to turn that idea into reality. It needs strong messaging and branding to help it make a name for itself from the jump. A rec...

DO Impact: Reflecting on progress and the path ahead | DigitalOcean

It’s been a whirlwind three months since we announced the launch of DO Impact—our global social impact program to empower changemakers through our three pillars of product, philanthropy, and planet...

DigitalOcean Kubernetes Control Plane General Availability (GA), now with a 99.95% SLA

At DigitalOcean, we strive to create a simple and safe managed Kubernetes experience so that you can scale your business with intuitive developer tools.  Today, we are thrilled to announce that Dig...

SMTP restricted by default

Unsolicited, unwelcome, and in some cases, outright harmful communications are ever present in our interconnected world. Postal mail, email, phone, and SMS are all exploited by the mal-intended and...

Introducing DigitalOcean Support Plans

Over the years, DigitalOcean has grown alongside our customers. We’re committed to providing the resources builders of all kinds need to succeed, whether they’re individual developers, startups, or...

A conversation with DigitalOcean’s Afro Sharks Employee Resource Group leaders

At DigitalOcean, we are committed to fostering a welcoming and inclusive place for everyone. As a values-driven organization with love at our core, we want to make sure individuals feel respected, ...

Announcing the DigitalOcean Crossplane Provider | DigitalOcean

We are pleased to announce the first release of the DigitalOcean Crossplane Provider. Crossplane is an open source project that lets you turn a Kubernetes cluster into a universal control plane. Cr...

Building a cloud-based blockchain business

Looking to build a cloud-based blockchain business? DigitalOcean has experience working with multiple blockchain customers, and we understand the unique needs of blockchain businesses. Read on for ...

A conversation with Rainbow DOlphins ERG leaders | DigitalOcean

At DigitalOcean, we are committed to fostering a welcoming and inclusive place for everyone. As a values-driven organization with love at our core, we want to make sure individuals feel respected, ...

April 2022 Products and Features | DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean’s product team has been working hard in April to bring developers new features and capabilities. Find out the latest news, including improvements for PaaS, DBaaS, Developer Solutions, ...

Latest products and features at DigitalOcean: May 2022

May brought one of the year's most anticipated releases—DigitalOcean Functions! Find out the latest on serverless and more, including improvements for PaaS, DBaaS, Developer Solutions, in our updat...

A year with Managed MongoDB | DIgitalOcean

Last June, we launched DigitalOcean Managed MongoDB, a fully managed, database as a service (DBaaS) offering from DigitalOcean, built in partnership with and certified by MongoDB Inc, the service p...

Secrets to organic social media success | DigitalOcean

Nearly 60% of the world’s population uses social media, often for multiple hours per day. It’s no wonder that organizations want to be a part of the conversation. However, as platforms continue to ...

Maximize efficiencies with object storage + CDN | DigitalOcean

The increase in popularity of video streaming and the rise of new technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence has contributed to a rise in the amount of unstructur...

How DigitalOcean's new Droplet Console works | DigitalOcean

We recently released our brand new web based terminal, which makes it much easier for connecting to Droplets. The new Droplet Console provides one-click SSH access to Droplets through a native SSH/...

Top Use Cases for Serverless | DigitalOcean

Function as a service (FaaS), sometimes simply referred to as serverless computing, focuses on event-driven triggers where code runs in response to events or requests. Serverless is gaining popular...

Introducing DigitalOcean Functions: A powerful serverless computing solution

DigitalOcean is committed to providing products that serve developers throughout their journey, and access to serverless computing has been one of the most popular requests from DigitalOcean users ...

Introducing Dedicated CPU DigitalOcean Managed MongoDB | DigitalOcean

Last year, DigitalOcean launched Managed MongoDB to give developers the ability to focus more on building apps while spending less time managing databases. Today, we’re excited to announce dedicate...

Effective collaboration with DigitalOcean Teams | DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean is committed to meeting the needs of builders and small businesses. As part of that commitment, we launched DigitalOcean Teams in 2016, an enhancement that gave developers who discover...

PaaS vs Serverless | DigitalOcean

Solutions such as Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Functions as a Service (Faas) that abstract away backend infrastructure management are quickly gaining popularity. Each option has distinct advant...

New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

Since we introduced Droplets a decade ago, we’ve grown alongside our customers as their needs have changed. We’ve invested in our infrastructure, expanded our geographic footprint, and introduced n...

Kubernetes Starter Kit | DigitalOcean

Organizations interested in adopting Kubernetes are often discouraged by its complexity and the time it takes to implement. Kubernetes isn’t easy to understand, and although community support for d...

DigitalOcean Named to Inc.'s Best Workplaces List | DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean has been named to Inc. Magazine’s annual “Best Workplaces” list for the second year in a row. The “Best Workplaces” list recognizes U.S.-based companies that have “excelled in creating...

DigitalOcean mitigated the AMD vulnerability

Today, AMD publicly disclosed a vulnerability that affected DigitalOcean’s Premium AMD Droplets. 

DigitalOcean at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2022 | DigitalOcean

We’re thrilled to meet up with technologists from leading open source and cloud native communities at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022. This year, DigitalOcean will join talented individuals ac...

Best Practices for Serverless | DigitalOcean

Function as a Service (FaaS) is the subset of serverless computing that’s focused on event-driven triggers where code runs in response to events or requests. Reports and Data predicts that Function...

New in DigitalOcean Kubernetes | DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean Kubernetes, our managed K8s offering, enables developers, startups, and SMBs to provision and deploy production-grade Kubernetes clusters reliably and with increased resilience. 

Announcing Marketplace Add-Ons | DigitalOcean

In 2019, we launched the DigitalOcean Marketplace, so that builders can quickly install common software packages on DigitalOcean Droplets while giving them the flexibility to perform their own soft...

How DigitalOcean supports employees as they balance work and life

As organizations like DigitalOcean have transitioned to remote-first working environments over the past two years, the notion of having a healthy work-life balance has become increasingly important...

What is GitOps | DigitalOcean

GitOps is an operational approach for platform engineers and software developers where every aspect of a project’s infrastructure, including infrastructure as code files, configuration files, and a...

Updated API Management Tokens | DigitalOcean

Today, we are excited to highlight our new API access tokens to boost token management to help improve security and automation. If you’ve recently generated an API access token you’ve likely notice...

Building scalable infrastructure with Kubernetes | DigitalOcean

Just like performance and testing, scalability is critical to the success of your organization and should be considered from the very beginning. Startups aim to grow rapidly, often with the goal be...

March 2022 products and features | DigitalOcean

We're excited to share the latest from DigitalOcean, from product updates, product recommendations, and webinars, to DigitalOcean in London and Break The Code 2—the game that took the tech industry...

Announcing DO Impact

A year ago DigitalOcean joined the Pledge 1% movement, committing $50 million to social impact causes. Today, I’m pleased to share additional information about how that commitment will be realized ...

Now Accepting Apple Pay | DigitalOcean

We are excited to announce that Apple Pay® is now available as a payment option on DigitalOcean! With this update, you can use Apple Pay to create a DigitalOcean account and for your recurring paym...

How to choose the best tech stack for your business

Some of the most important decisions startups face are during the initial build of their applications. Choosing the right tech stack—the group of technologies that allow you to build and maintain y...

Is Kubernetes Right For Me? | DigitalOcean

Since its inception in 2014, Kubernetes has become a de facto standard for container orchestration. It’s being hailed as the new way to deploy and maintain your applications, but do you really need...

Product Marketing for Startups | DigitalOcean

For organizations of all kinds, product marketing plays a critical role in defining product positioning and messaging. It’s arguably one of the most important components of business strategy. In fa...

Upgrade to Postgres 14 with no downtime | DigitalOcean

We’re happy to announce PostgreSQL14 is now available on DigitalOcean Managed Databases. PostgreSQL is arguably the world’s most advanced open-source relational database and PostgreSQL 14 is packed...

Founder Diaries: WordFleet | DigitalOcean

At DigitalOcean, we believe our community is bigger than us, and the ideas of entrepreneurs and builders of all kinds are essential for innovation and growth. That’s why we started the Founder Diar...

CSS-Tricks joins DigitalOcean, expanding our commitment to community

I am excited to announce that DigitalOcean has acquired the CSS-Tricks website, a learning site with 6,500 articles, videos, guides and other content focused on frontend development. CSS-Tricks wil...

Latest products and features at DigitalOcean: February 2022 

DigitalOcean’s product team has been working hard in February to bring developers new features and capabilities. Find out the latest news in this 5-minute read, including improvements for Kubernete...

Forrester Total Economic Impact Report | DigitalOcean

Builders of all kinds rely on DigitalOcean for its developer-friendly features, reliable products, and affordable pricing. DigitalOcean is committed to simplicity in all we do, which includes simpl...

3 ways to sin up a Kubernetes cluster | DigitalOcean

Adopting Kubernetes can be complex and time-consuming. From initial exploration to implementation and beyond, the journey can take weeks, months, or even years. By using a managed Kubernetes servic...

A day in the life of a Data Center Engineer | DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean’s data center employees maintain the physical infrastructure in our data centers.  It’s an incredibly important and interesting career, and the work of our data center team is the foun...

Kubernetes for Startups | DigitalOcean

As the most popular solution for container orchestration and management, businesses of all kinds adopt Kubernetes to increase automation and reduce IT costs. Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF...

How we approach paid leave | DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean is a values-driven company, and we are consistently aiming to improve our employee experience and ensure we are creating an inclusive environment for all. Over the past two years, as C...

What is FaaS? Function as a Service explained | DigitalOcean

Serverless computing allows developers to build and run applications without having to manage cloud infrastructure. There are still servers in serverless, but they are abstracted away from app deve...

New in App Platform | DigitalOcean

Last year, we introduced many new features in DigitalOcean App Platform, our fully managed PaaS (Platform as a Service) offering. Some of the most notable features were - the ability to forward App...

Kubernetes Challenge | DigitalOcean

We are excited to share the results of our first DigitalOcean Kubernetes Challenge!

Migrate your database with minimal downtime | DigitalOcean

For most developers, startups, and SMBs, database management is not an area where they want to build their expertise. Instead, they want to spend their time innovating, creating more apps, and buil...

January 2020 Latest Products and Features | DigitalOcean

Last year, we made significant enhancements to our products that enable our customers to easily build and grow their business on DigitalOcean. We’re committed to the continued support of our custom...

Monolithic vs microservice architecture: Which is best? | DigitalOcean

When building a new application, one of the first questions many developers will confront is if they should start off with a monolithic application or one that leverages microservices. Though both ...

Cloud solutions for Blockchain Technology 

Learn how blockchain businesses can utilize cloud solutions for their computing needs.

What is a CDN (Content Delivery Network)? 

Learn the basics of a CDN, benefits of content delivery networks, and how this tool can be used alongside your cloud computing provider.

A Quick Guide to WordPress Hosting

Learn the basics of Wordpress hosting and which solution may be right for your website.

Introducing Google Pay support for DigitalOcean

Developers can now use Google Pay to create a DigitalOcean account or to set up recurring payments.

IaaS vs. PaaS vs. SaaS: What’s the Difference?

Explore the differences between cloud delivery models IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS to determine what's right for your business.

2021 demonstrated that 'love is at our core'

This year was a pivotal one for DigitalOcean as we continue along our path to simplify cloud computing so developers and businesses can spend more time developing software that changes the world.

Meet the Navigators: DigitalOcean’s inaugural class of 2021

We're excited to honor our 2021 class of Navigators and share some of their contributions from the past year.

3rd gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors available at DigitalOcean

We are excited to announce the introduction of the latest generation of Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors (code name Ice Lake) at DigitalOcean. These latest generation processors offer significant performance improvements compared to their predecessors.

DigitalOcean’s response to the Log4j security vulnerability

DigitalOcean has been monitoring the Log4j vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) and has been testing across all of our products to validate any potential exposure or risks of this vulnerability.

What is SaaS? Software as a Service Explained

An explanation of Software as a Service (SaaS), as well as its advantages and disadvantages.

Block Storage Volumes Gets a Performance Burst

At DigitalOcean, we’ve been rapidly adding new products and features on our mission to simplify cloud computing, and today we're happy to announce our latest enhancement.

Latest products and features at DigitalOcean: November 2021 

The latest product news at DigitalOcean.

Coming together for good at DigitalOcean

These past two years have been a challenge, but we’re proud of the way in which DigitalOcean has come together for good. 

An amazing month of open source love

Highlights from this year's Hactoberfest.

Boost your cloud native skills with these sessions from deploy

Key learnings from deploy conference, where we connect with builders about all things cloud native.

Announcing Currents: DigitalOcean's research report on SMBs and the cloud

The latest edition of Currents dives deep into how small and medium size businesses around the globe are using cloud solutions.

What is PaaS? Platform as a Service Explained

Platform as a Service (PaaS) is a category of cloud computing that allows developers to use deployment platforms to build, deploy, and scale their applications. Learn more about PaaS and if it's the right solution for you.

Scale your apps confidently with upgraded Load Balancers

Now, DigitalOcean Load Balancer can easily handle up to one million requests per second or one million simultaneous connections. Learn how this upgrade gives you more flexibility in choosing the right sized Load Balancer for your apps.

What is IaaS? Infrastructure as a Service Explained

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is a cloud delivery model that provides on-demand computing resources over the internet. Learn more about IaaS and if it's right for you.

Don’t fear the cloud! Three steps to simplify cloud computing

The cloud doesn't have to be complicated. Learn how you can simplify cloud computing and choose a solution that's right for you.

Latest products and features at DigitalOcean: October 2021 

Updates to DigitalOcean's infrastructure as a service, platform as a service, and cloud native products from October 2021.

Vanilla Kubernetes vs Managed Kubernetes

What is vanilla Kubernetes and the differnece between vanilla Kubernetes and managed Kubernetes, plus benefits of managed Kubernetes.

Join us for deploy, DigitalOcean's virtual conference

DigitalOcean's virtual conference is back! Join us for practical takeaways on using cloud technologies to grow your business.

Introducing DigitalOcean's New Chief Product Officer

Gabe Monroy has joined DigitalOcean as its new Chief Product Officer.

Programmatically gain insight into your apps using the new Monitoring API

This extension of the DigitalOcean API will allow you to programmatically manage your alert policies and retrieve Droplet insight metrics from your own applications and scripts.

New in DigitalOcean App Platform: Log forwarding, deployment progress indicators, availability in additional regions and more

We’re excited to share more updates that make analysis of your logs simpler and deployment of your apps easier. We’ve also expanded the availability of App Platform to more regions.

Grow even faster with the new control plane for DigitalOcean Kubernetes

We’ve redesigned the control plane of DigitalOcean Kubernetes to make it easier for you to run workloads reliably, and to provide high availability.

What is managed hosting?

An explainer of managed hosting and its benefits for small businesses and startups. How to choose a managed hosting provider.

Dive into Kubernetes with DigitalOcean at KubeCon & CloudNativeCon 2021!

DigitalOcean is proud to be a sponsor of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021. Join us for conference talks, a virtual booth, and other Kubernetes-focused events.

Latest products and features at DigitalOcean: September 2021 

September was special for DigitalOcean as we welcomed Nimbella, a serverless platform provider, to our family. We’re excited about integrating Nimbella into our platform and offering application build

Hacktoberfest is back and gr-eight-er than ever!

DigitalOcean is excited to announce the eighth annual Hacktoberfest, our month-long celebration of the open-source community.

How to build and scale eCommerce businesses in the cloud

In this post, we’ll share how eCommerce businesses are leveraging services such as DigitalOcean Managed Databases, Kubernetes, and Droplets to power their growth. 

Nimbella Joins the DigitalOcean Family

I’m excited to share that this morning we announced that we have acquired Nimbella, a serverless platform provider.

Latest products and features at DigitalOcean: August 2021

August was a busy month for DigitalOcean with teams focusing on addressing key customer feedback and making our platform more secure and easy to use.

CEO's reflections on 2 years at DigitalOcean

As I approach my second anniversary at DigitalOcean, I have even more excitement than on my first day at DO. The core of what makes DigitalOcean a magical company has stayed the same. We remain focused on our mission to simplify cloud computing so developers and businesses can spend more time creating software that changes the world.

New in DigitalOcean App Platform: Enhanced security, insights and DBaaS integration

New in DigitalOcean App Platform: Enhanced security, insights and DBaaS integration

Announcing DigitalOcean's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Report

DigitalOcean’s first-ever diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) report highlights our employee workforce data for 2020.

Securely connect to Droplets with SSH key pairs using a new Droplet Console

Announcing DigitalOcean's new Droplet Console, with support for SSH.

How managed web hosts are evolving for a cloud-first world 

What managed web hosts need to consider when building on public clouds and how they can build reliable and scalable managed cloud hosting providers.

Latest products and features at DigitalOcean: July 2021

In June, we introduced DigitalOcean Managed MongoDB - a fully managed database as a service (DBaaS) offering that simplifies the administration of MongoDB. This month, we worked on some key integratio

Multi-cloud vs hybrid cloud: Everything your business needs to know 

Finding the cloud computing approach that’s right for your business 

Building a developer tools business on a developer-focused cloud

Software is not only eating the world, it has developed an uncanny knack of inserting itself into every aspect of this world’s functioning. This means that any improvements to how software is develope

Migrate your workloads to DigitalOcean with confidence

Cloud computing has unlocked many new opportunities for businesses. Leveraging cloud services, you get limitless access to key resources like compute, storage, and databases at a fraction of the cost

Latest products and features at DigitalOcean: June 2021

We just wrapped up deploy, our annual conference where we heard from DigitalOcean customers, learned what startups need to grow their businesses, and announced new product updates, partnerships and in

Introducing DigitalOcean Managed MongoDB – a fully managed, database as a service for modern apps

MongoDB is one of the most popular databases, and it’s ideal for apps that evolve rapidly and need to handle huge volumes of data and traffic. It offers advantages like flexible document schemas, code

How to scale your SaaS product without breaking the bank

These days, if you are in the business of software, chances are you are delivering or plan to deliver your services using a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model. A combination of internet-based delivery

Contributing to open source software: Kubernetes

Are you interested in getting involved with the Kubernetes community, but aren't sure where to start? This blog post aims to help remove the ambiguity associated with contributing to an open source pr

Introducing a new way to share your referral link: Powered by DigitalOcean badge

A few weeks ago we released a new feature for the referral program that allows you to embed a DigitalOcean branded badge onto your website, app, or content which links to your personal referral URL. A

Managed Databases now support PostgreSQL 13

We are excited to announce that DigitalOcean Managed Databases now supports PostgreSQL 13. PostgreSQL is arguably the world’s most advanced open source relational database, and it has been the bedrock

Latest products and features at DigitalOcean: May 2021

After launching several key features in April, in May we focused on addressing customer feedback and expanding our capabilities to support more regions and new scenarios.

DigitalOcean’s virtual conference is back! Join us at deploy, Power Your Business

DigitalOcean is gearing up for another edition of its signature conference, deploy, with the goal of celebrating, educating, and connecting awesome builders from all over the world. Last year we succe

Announcing new, consolidated site for all technical resources: docs.digitalocean.com

A few weeks ago, we introduced a new website for DigitalOcean technical documentation that’s a comprehensive resource including tutorials, product details, sample code, references, etc. It was a signi

Latest products and features at DigitalOcean: April 2021

April was another busy month where we focused on building new capabilities to help you achieve better performance, scalability, and efficiency for your apps. Here’s a snapshot of some of the key updat

DigitalOcean Managed Databases now support Droplets with 100% dedicated vCPUs for your mission critical workloads

A couple of years ago, we launched DigitalOcean Managed Databases to give you the ability to focus more on building apps while spending less time on managing the database. With Managed Databases, you

Build powerful WordPress websites without the hassle of database management

WordPress is one of the most popular content management system (CMS) solutions and is used by over 40% of the top 10 million websites in the world.