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Cloud Foundry vs DigitalOcean: What are the differences?
Ease of Deployment: Cloud Foundry is an open-source platform as a service (PaaS) that provides a seamless deployment experience, allowing developers to easily deploy and scale applications without worrying about the underlying infrastructure. On the other hand, DigitalOcean is an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) provider that gives users full control over their virtual servers, requiring more manual configuration and setup compared to Cloud Foundry.
Pricing Model: Cloud Foundry offers a consumption-based pricing model, where users only pay for the resources they use, making it cost-effective for small businesses and startups. In contrast, DigitalOcean follows a traditional pay-as-you-go pricing model, providing a predictable cost structure for users who prefer fixed pricing plans.
Managed Services: Cloud Foundry provides a wide range of managed services such as databases, messaging queues, and logging services, making it easier for developers to integrate these services into their applications. DigitalOcean, on the other hand, offers basic cloud infrastructure services and relies on third-party providers for additional managed services, leading to a more modular approach to service offerings.
Scalability: Cloud Foundry is designed to automatically scale applications based on demand, providing high availability and performance without manual intervention. DigitalOcean, while offering scalability through features like load balancers and auto-scaling groups, requires more configuration and monitoring to achieve the same level of scalability as Cloud Foundry.
Community Support: Cloud Foundry has a large and active community of developers and contributors who regularly contribute to the platform's development and provide support through forums, meetups, and online resources. DigitalOcean also has a strong community presence, but its focus is more on providing tutorials and guides for users, rather than direct contributions to the platform's development.
In Summary, Cloud Foundry and DigitalOcean differ in their ease of deployment, pricing models, managed services, scalability, and community support, catering to different needs and preferences of developers and businesses.
Chose Hetnzer over DigitalOcean and Linode because Hetzner provides much cheaper VPS with much better specs. DigitalOcean might seems like a good choice at first because of how popular it is. But in reality, if all you need is a simple VPS, you won't benefit much from the their oversubscribed datacenters which often underperform other competitors. Linode is also a good choice. They have cheaper options and performs slightly better than DigitalOcean. In the end, choosing a more affordable host helps you save money. That's important when you're running a tight ship.
While Media Temple is more expensive than DigitalOcean, sometimes it is like comparing apples and oranges. DigitalOcean provides what is called Virtual Private Servers ( VPS ). While you seem to be on your own dedicated server, you are, in fact, sharing the same hardware with others.
If you need to be on your own dedicated server, or have other hardware requirements, you do not really have as many options with DigitalOcean. But with Media Temple, the skies the limit ( but so is potentially the cost ).
DigitalOcean was where I began; its USD5/month is extremely competitive and the overall experience as highly user-friendly.
However, their offerings were lacking and integrating with other resources I had on AWS was getting more costly (due to transfer costs on AWS). Eventually I moved the entire project off DO's Droplets and onto AWS's EC2.
One may initially find the cost (w/o free tier) and interface of AWS daunting however with good planning you can achieve highly cost-efficient systems with savings plans, spot instances, etcetera.
Do not dive into AWS head-first! Seriously, don't. Stand back and read pricing documentation thoroughly. You can, not to the fault of AWS, easily go way overbudget. Your first action upon getting your AWS account should be to set up billing alarms for estimated and current bill totals.
Pros of Cloud Foundry
- Perfectly aligned with springboot2
- Free distributed tracing (zipkin)1
- Application health management1
- Free service discovery (Eureka)1
Pros of DigitalOcean
- Great value for money560
- Simple dashboard364
- Good pricing362
- Ssds300
- Nice ui250
- Easy configuration191
- Great documentation156
- Ssh access138
- Great community135
- Ubuntu24
- Docker13
- IPv6 support12
- Private networking10
- 99.99% uptime SLA8
- Simple API7
- Great tutorials7
- 55 Second Provisioning6
- One Click Applications5
- Dokku4
- LAMP4
- Debian4
- CoreOS4
- Node.js4
- 1Gb/sec Servers3
- Word Press3
- Mean3
- LEMP3
- Simple Control Panel3
- Ghost3
- Runs CoreOS2
- Quick and no nonsense service2
- Django2
- Good Tutorials2
- Speed2
- Ruby on Rails2
- GitLab2
- Hex Core machines with dedicated ECC Ram and RAID SSD s2
- CentOS1
- Spaces1
- KVM Virtualization1
- Amazing Hardware1
- Transfer Globally1
- Fedora1
- FreeBSD1
- Drupal1
- FreeBSD Amp1
- Magento1
- ownCloud1
- RedMine1
- My go to server provider1
- Ease and simplicity1
- Nice1
- Find it superfitting with my requirements (SSD, ssh.1
- Easy Setup1
- Cheap1
- Static IP1
- It's the easiest to get started for small projects1
- Automatic Backup1
- Great support1
- Quick and easy to set up1
- Servers on demand - literally1
- Reliability1
- Variety of services0
- Managed Kubernetes0
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Cons of Cloud Foundry
Cons of DigitalOcean
- No live support chat3
- Pricing3
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