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DigitalOcean
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DigitalOcean

#5in Cloud Hosting
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What is DigitalOcean?

We take the complexities out of cloud hosting by offering blazing fast, on-demand SSD cloud servers, straightforward pricing, a simple API, and an easy-to-use control panel.

DigitalOcean is a tool in the Cloud Hosting category of a tech stack.

Key Features

We provide all of our users with high-performance SSD Hard Drives, flexible API, and the ability to select to nearest data center location.SSD Cloud Servers in 55 SecondsWe provide a 99.99% uptime SLA around network, power and virtual server availability. If we fail to deliver, we’ll credit you based on the amount of time that service was unavailable.All servers come with 1Gb/sec. network interface. Plans start with 1TB per month and increase incrementally.KVM (for Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is one of the fastest-growing open source full virtualization solution for Linux. Our KVM virtualized droplets are designed to address a high level of security and performance.With our SSD hard drives, you can expect much faster disk i/o performance when compared to a traditional storage medium (e.g. SATA).We have created a simple name spaced API that provides complete control over your virtual private servers.All cloud servers are built on powerful Hex Core machines with dedicated ECC Ram and RAID SSD storage.Shared Private Networking enables Droplets to communicate with other Droplets in that same datacenter.Transfer a copy of your Droplet snapshot to all regions (Amsterdam, San Francisco, and New York).An intuitive user interface to control all of your virtual servers. Create, resize, rebuild and snapshot with single clicks.Full featured DNS management allows you to easily manage your domains.If you ever get locked out of your virtual server, you’ll be able to recover it with full console access.Automatically set your server to be backed up. Or take a snapshot when you reach a milestone.

DigitalOcean Pros & Cons

Pros of DigitalOcean

  • ✓Great value for money
  • ✓Simple dashboard
  • ✓Good pricing
  • ✓Ssds
  • ✓Nice ui
  • ✓Easy configuration
  • ✓Great documentation
  • ✓Ssh access
  • ✓Great community
  • ✓Ubuntu

Cons of DigitalOcean

  • ✗No live support chat
  • ✗Pricing

DigitalOcean Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to DigitalOcean?

Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2

It is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

It is a comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally.

Google Cloud Platform

Google Cloud Platform

It helps you build what's next with secure infrastructure, developer tools, APIs, data analytics and machine learning. It is a suite of cloud computing services that runs on the same infrastructure that Google uses internally for its end-user products, such as Google Search and YouTube.

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Azure

Azure is an open and flexible cloud platform that enables you to quickly build, deploy and manage applications across a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters. You can build applications using any language, tool or framework. And you can integrate your public cloud applications with your existing IT environment.

Google Compute Engine

Google Compute Engine

Google Compute Engine is a service that provides virtual machines that run on Google infrastructure. Google Compute Engine offers scale, performance, and value that allows you to easily launch large compute clusters on Google's infrastructure. There are no upfront investments and you can run up to thousands of virtual CPUs on a system that has been designed from the ground up to be fast, and to offer strong consistency of performance.

Linode

Linode

Get a server running in minutes with your choice of Linux distro, resources, and node location.

DigitalOcean Integrations

Vagrant, Packer, Lita, Tutum, Compose and 7 more are some of the popular tools that integrate with DigitalOcean. Here's a list of all 12 tools that integrate with DigitalOcean.

Vagrant
Vagrant
Packer
Packer
Lita
Lita
Tutum
Tutum
Compose
Compose
DeployBot
DeployBot
Kontena
Kontena
DCHQ
DCHQ
Distelli
Distelli
ContainerShip
ContainerShip
Runbook
Runbook
Neptune.io
Neptune.io

DigitalOcean Discussions

Discover why developers choose DigitalOcean. Read real-world technical decisions and stack choices from the StackShare community.

Craig Buchanan
Craig Buchanan

Founder/CEO at AppAttack

Dec 4, 2018

Needs adviceonKubernetesKubernetesDigitalOceanDigitalOcean

I use DigitalOcean because of the simplicity of using their basic offerings, such as droplets. In AppAttack, we need low-level control of our infrastructure so we can rapidly deploy a custom training web application on-demand for each training session, and building a Kubernetes cluster on top of DigitalOcean droplets allowed us to do exactly that.

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Vincent Giersch
Vincent Giersch

CTO at Flat

Dec 3, 2018

Needs adviceonDigitalOceanDigitalOcean

We have been using DigitalOcean during the past 3 years because they provide simple cloud instances in various regions with a clear pricing and good choice of instances sizes. Their service is very reliable and support is great, so that's the perfect choice for us. DigitalOcean's new object storage service is also a good and cheap alternative to S3: we use it for non-critical backups and caches.

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thecatontheflat
thecatontheflat

Dec 3, 2018

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I use DigitalOcean because of the easy to follow processes they offer. Apart from that — flexible pricing and most importantly — amazing online community with tons of guides and support materials to tackle any server related issue.

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Anthony Lapenna
Anthony Lapenna

Co-founder and Software Engineer at Portainer.io at Portainer

Dec 3, 2018

Needs adviceonDigitalOceanDigitalOcean

When talking about cloud hosting and cloud providers for small projects/infrastructure, I usually favor DigitalOcean before any other.

A mix of vast array of cloud servers size, decent availability regions and affordable plans makes it our go solution for our cloud provider choice !

And their management portal is clean and so easy to use that it actually makes you enjoy managing your infrastructure.

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Adrien Rey-Jarthon
Adrien Rey-Jarthon

Founder at updown.io

Nov 27, 2018

Needs adviceonOVHOVHDigitalOceanDigitalOceanLet's EncryptLet's Encrypt

Hosting updown.io started with a single OVH server and quickly grew to more server, first it was DigitalOcean VMs and we were very satisfied about them. But we then noticed some shortcomings about #IPv6 networking, although DigitalOcean supports it they don't provide the standard IP range to each VM (by choice) and thus have to block port 25 to avoid other machines being blocked in case of spammer. This is not good for us it means we can't monitor IPv6 SMTP servers properly, that's why we switched to @Vultr (one of their main competitors) which provides similar prices, more locations, and true IPv6 support with no blocked ports. Of course they offer less tools and the support is probably better at DigitalOcean but so far we're happy with @Vultr.

We still use some @OVH servers (which offers tremendous price/performance ratio) for the main web and database server + 2 of the daemons. In addition to this, we also have 2 DigitalOcean VMs for the secondary web and database server and for the automatic TLS termination proxy used to automatically issue Let's Encrypt certs for status page custom domains (for these servers the IPv6 port block is not an issue)

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