Amazon EC2 vs. DigitalOcean vs. Linode
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Description |
What is Amazon EC2?Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.
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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.
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What is Linode?Get a server running in minutes with your choice of Linux distro, resources, and node location.
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Pricing |
How much does Amazon EC2 cost?
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How much does DigitalOcean cost?
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How much does Linode cost?
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Companies |
What companies use Amazon EC2?
4234 companies on StackShare use Amazon EC2
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What companies use DigitalOcean?
1108 companies on StackShare use DigitalOcean
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What companies use Linode?
150 companies on StackShare use Linode
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Integrations |
What tools integrate with Amazon EC2?
85 tools on StackShare integrate with Amazon EC2
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What tools integrate with DigitalOcean?
30 tools on StackShare integrate with DigitalOcean
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What tools integrate with Linode?
7 tools on StackShare integrate with Linode
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Related Comparisons
Interest Over Time
Reviews of Amazon EC2, DigitalOcean, and Linode
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grokjsDigitalOcean is an amazing community
March 31, 2014 07:04
I started using DigitalOcean back in January to host a Ghost blog. I was a little worried at first because I didn't have too much experience setting up servers. There was always the option of a full service company that does all the work for you, but the point was that I wanted more control for the purpose of learning. And, learning turned out to be really easy thanks to the great community at DigitalOcean. There are tutorials for just about anything. It has been an amazing learning experience, and now I'm looking forward to hosting more complex projects here. I already have a couple in the works for the near future. I highly recommend it.
I can't rate the Support great or bad, as I haven't really had a need to contact them yet. But everything else has been excellent so far.
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kinjalA Better VPS
February 14, 2014 03:39
A VPS gives the full access that I need, because most of what I do has complex integrations and there is plenty of legacy - very stable, highly tuned code developed over two decades - that I carry with me. My use is also limited to during development, so there is no point going for a full server.
Amazon EC2 is a VPS, except it is cheaper.
Additionally, I used to previously take the code developed on my VPS and deploy it to whatever server the client brought.
With Amazon EC2 the deployment is already done. All that remains it to scale up, add other products like dns, mail, storage and so on, and change the billing so that the client gets invoiced. That makes the process that much more predictable and seamless, and the end result much more stable.
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imshashankIts the best among the lot
July 09, 2014 12:37
I am a freelancer and a researcher. I have had tried a lot of hosting services over the years. But DIgitalOcean stands out from the rest for its pricing. Its just five dollar a month for a basic node.
And the other reason for loving Digital Ocean is that they support Docker. It you buy a VPS machine, chances are that docker support wont be available as with PV or hypervisor, docker need some extra config.
So far I am loving DO :-)
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samuelpolatLove it!
February 20, 2015 09:13
I use DigitalOcean for testing or hosting my apps. You can set up an Ubuntu server in less than a minute. There are also one-click-install apps, so I don't have to install e.g. the LAMP stack myself. The dashboard has a really easy UI and is easy to use. The costs begin at 5 bucks per month. Also DigitalOcean has a great support and an adorable community. They have a great support page with hundreds of tutorials.
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grokjs
So far so good
April 06, 2014 09:18
Just started using EC2 myself, but it was the platform used by my previous employer, as well. They are getting easier to use, dashboard improvements over time were well done. Responded fast to outages. They offer a limited free tier which is perfect for my current project, allowing me time to build it to the point where I will need a paid solution. Overall, I'm liking it so far.
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boolow5Easy & Cheap
April 27, 2017 04:47
My primary OS is LINUX, Linode gives me everything I need in hosting service.
Enough RAM for the price, high speed network and CPUs.
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How developers use Amazon EC2 vs DigitalOcean vs Linode
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imgur uses Amazon EC2
About a year and a half ago (written June 2013) we moved from dedicated servers over to AWS. Thanks to AWS, we no longer have to think on a server level. Instead, we think of everything as a cluster of instances, and an instance is essentially a virtual server where we don’t have to worry about the hardware. It’s a relief to not have to worry about the hardware behind the instances.
The clusters we have are: WWW, API, Upload, HAProxy, HBase, MySQL, Memcached, Redis, and ElasticSearch, for an average total of 80 instances. Each cluster handles the job that its name describes, all working together for the common goal of giving you your daily (hourly?) dose of image entertainment.
Below is a diagram of how they all work together:
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Instacart uses Amazon EC2
We liked a lot of things about Heroku. We loved the build packs, and we still in fact use Heroku build packs, but we were frustrated by lack of control about a lot of things. It’s nice to own the complete stack, or rather as far down as AWS goes. It gave us a lot of flexibility and functionality that we didn’t have before. We use a lot of Amazon technology.
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v0lkan uses Amazon EC2
I like containers and all, but for zerotoherojs.com I am a one-man band, who also works full time. I don’t have any (dev)ops budget, and therefore I need the reliability and uptime of an actual virtual machine.
That’s where AWS EC2 comes in handy.
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Scrayos UG (haftungsbeschränkt) uses DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean offers us everything we need to test out specific scenarios or we expect from small-servers like our monitoring-system. We also use digital-ocean in long-term and are very satisfied with their performance and scalability.
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jflynn33 uses Amazon EC2
Because servers. Lots of them. Lots of configurations. Great for mission-specific functions. Video encoding, data aggregation, dedicated processing, mission-critical data stores. Anything you can't hang off your Heroku environment.
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Promethean TV uses Amazon EC2
PrometheanTV uses a variety of EC2 instance types to support a variety of applications and services that make up the platform. Web servers, back-end application servers, and video trans-coding servers all run on EC2 instances.
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jhabdas uses DigitalOcean
The ultimate hosting provider. Solid-state drives. Virtual Private Servers. $5 per month. Pinch me am I dreaming? If you can dream it you can build it too.
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cyrusstoller uses DigitalOcean
Because I like having more control of my deployment, I am currently hosting this on DigitalOcean. I don't need to worry about arbitrary row limits and I can be sure that the app is always running.
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cjsaylor uses DigitalOcean
We use DigitalOcean to host our build tools (namely Drone.io) for a cheap CI and CD server.
We'll be using this to host the server application during alpha phase.
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ahamilton9 uses DigitalOcean
Been hosting with them for a while now. Never had an issue, great support, great docs: can't beat 'em. Though I'd probably move to AWS for large scale projects.
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Kalibrr uses Linode
All of our servers are hosted on Linode, which scored better in our benchmarks, and are significantly cheaper than EC2 instances.
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