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DigitalOcean vs Vultr: What are the differences?

DigitalOcean: Deploy an SSD cloud server in less than 55 seconds with a dedicated IP and root access. 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; Vultr: Deploy Cloud Servers, Bare Metal, and Storage worldwide. Strategically located in 16 datacenters around the globe and provides frictionless provisioning of public cloud, storage and single-tenant bare metal.

DigitalOcean and Vultr can be primarily classified as "Cloud Hosting" tools.

Some of the features offered by DigitalOcean are:

  • 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 Seconds
  • We 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.

On the other hand, Vultr provides the following key features:

  • Activate in minutes, online 24x7
  • 16 low latency locations
  • 100% SLA guaranteed

According to the StackShare community, DigitalOcean has a broader approval, being mentioned in 944 company stacks & 688 developers stacks; compared to Vultr, which is listed in 18 company stacks and 9 developer stacks.

Decisions about DigitalOcean and Vultr
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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.

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Pros of DigitalOcean
Pros of Vultr
  • 560
    Great value for money
  • 364
    Simple dashboard
  • 362
    Good pricing
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    Ssds
  • 250
    Nice ui
  • 191
    Easy configuration
  • 156
    Great documentation
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    Ssh access
  • 135
    Great community
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    Ubuntu
  • 13
    Docker
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    IPv6 support
  • 10
    Private networking
  • 8
    99.99% uptime SLA
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    Simple API
  • 7
    Great tutorials
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    55 Second Provisioning
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    One Click Applications
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    Dokku
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    Node.js
  • 4
    LAMP
  • 4
    Debian
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    CoreOS
  • 3
    1Gb/sec Servers
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    Word Press
  • 3
    LEMP
  • 3
    Simple Control Panel
  • 3
    Mean
  • 3
    Ghost
  • 2
    Runs CoreOS
  • 2
    Quick and no nonsense service
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    Django
  • 2
    Good Tutorials
  • 2
    Speed
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    Ruby on Rails
  • 2
    GitLab
  • 2
    Hex Core machines with dedicated ECC Ram and RAID SSD s
  • 1
    CentOS
  • 1
    Spaces
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    KVM Virtualization
  • 1
    Amazing Hardware
  • 1
    Transfer Globally
  • 1
    Fedora
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    FreeBSD
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    Drupal
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    FreeBSD Amp
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    Magento
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    ownCloud
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    RedMine
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    My go to server provider
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    Ease and simplicity
  • 1
    Nice
  • 1
    Find it superfitting with my requirements (SSD, ssh.
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    Easy Setup
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    Cheap
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    Static IP
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    It's the easiest to get started for small projects
  • 1
    Automatic Backup
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    Great support
  • 1
    Quick and easy to set up
  • 1
    Servers on demand - literally
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    Reliability
  • 0
    Variety of services
  • 0
    Managed Kubernetes
  • 3
    Affordable
  • 3
    Cloud Based
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    <a href="https://hostandprotect.com/">secure</a>
  • 1
    Easy to use

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Cons of DigitalOcean
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    No live support chat
  • 3
    Pricing
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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.

    What is Vultr?

    Strategically located in 16 datacenters around the globe and provides frictionless provisioning of public cloud, storage and single-tenant bare metal.

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