DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean
About DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean is a cloud management software designed to help businesses build and launch applications in cloud environments. Administrators can use the platform to set up application development frameworks, maintain product catalogs, and capture and store business data in a centralized repository.
DigitalOcean enables software developers to configure workflows, manage databases, and streamline DNS management and application development operations via a unified platform. The application allows IT professionals to enhance the performance and speed of hosted websites, conduct analytics, and monitor cloud servers.
DigitalOcean facilitates integration with various third-party platforms such as Docker, Joomla, Drone, Drupal, GitLab, Elixir, Magento, and more via an API.
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- Industry: Internet
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Digital Ocean is in my top 5 for hosting solutions
Reviewed on 2022-01-18
Digital Ocean accomodates all kind of public. I use it's services for my small to medium business...
Digital Ocean accomodates all kind of public. I use it's services for my small to medium business websites, for hosting, databases and backup. I also deploy my internal tools there. It's affordable, reliable and also plays nice with others.
Pros
You can depend on Digital Ocean. It's server are very sturdy, you can choose from a very wide range of options and everything is documented.
Cons
It's complicated to setup properly, but it's getting better every day. This is not Digital Ocean's fault, Cloud Computing is though.
Reasons for Choosing DigitalOcean
Mostly pricing issues: Digital Ocean let me choose how much I will pay for something in advance. Also, it gives more value for money than a standard VPS solution.Reasons for Switching to DigitalOcean
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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Intuitive Tools for Creating Infrastructure
Reviewed on 2020-10-01
I've been really happy with DigitalOcean. I started out just messing around with a small side...
I've been really happy with DigitalOcean. I started out just messing around with a small side project to stay sharp. I'm now running a server for an API, another server for a frontend app, and a managed DB that the API pulls from. Connecting these was easy and connecting my domains to different servers was easy. I have loved working in DigitalOcean and I love that the prices are low enough that I could play around without any real intent of making a profitable project, and that breathing space let me run the servers and resources for long enough that I actually have something up and running pretty nicely with just a few hours here and there to tinker.
Pros
- Great UI - you can do everything in the browser without using CLI - create new web servers, managed databases, bucket storage
- API matches Amazon S3 - familiar methods of interacting with resources
- Pricing is great, 200GB bucket storage runs $5/mo, Servers start at $5 month, managed DB at $15/mo.
- CDN for fast delivery across the globe
- Easy to understand your bill and not get bit. You can create an image of your server and then kill the server, so you are not being charged server prices ($$/month) and just image prices (pennies/month). This makes it easy to put a project on hold and come back in the future without paying a ton to host something that's just waiting for you.
- One-click to spin up a provisioned Ubuntu droplet, LAMP stack or dozens of preconfigured server images. I especially liked this feature because I'm not a linux genius and getting Apache and PHP setup can take me hours of tears and frustration. Instead, you can just select an image that interests you and 30 seconds later you have a server ready to go.
- Floating IPs let you lock in a permanent IP address even though you may start and stop servers and their individual IPs might change
- Domain management. This is a key feature. If you move your nameservers to DO, it's stupid easy to create subdomains and point them to your DO servers.
- Easy to resize/upgrade a server, add RAM or disk space.
- Tons of Q&A, any time I had a question someone else had already asked it and received a clear answer.
Cons
There is the occasional UI bug, and sometimes I get an email about a region having some temporary hold on creating new servers. Nothing that lasts more than a few minutes, and usually its something like "We are temporarily disabling the ability to create new servers in the NYC3 Region" but existing resources don't go down and if I desperately needed to start a new server I could just use any other region and move it to the NYC3 region later if necessary.
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- Industry: Fine Art
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Monthly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10
Nightmare company erased all our data and backups
Reviewed on 2024-08-17
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It seemed reliable but isn´t - it´s a horror company.
Cons
I have used digital ocean for more than 7 years. Now comes the horror. I was on a summer trip for about a month and really took a digital detox time. Within this period, our company credit card was outdated, so the monthly payment couldn´t be processed. When I saw this, I immeadiately used another payment service and took care of the bill. However, DigitalOcean had already erased all our company data and back-ups. A project worth more than 150 thousand EUROS was just erased. According to DigitalOcean the data is gone forever and they told me don´t worry you can just start a new one. To everyone out there, the company is not trustworthy and doesn´t care about you. Watch out and better find an alternative, usually data is stored in backups and not 100% erased within such a short period. Moreover, customer service really bad - unbelievable.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
from good to perfect
Reviewed on 2023-08-26
Digital ocean was my first IaaS and it is so easy to start learning how it works, i have deploy 4...
Digital ocean was my first IaaS and it is so easy to start learning how it works, i have deploy 4 backend servers and i feel confortable when i think of creating more of them in digital ocean, so the only thing that is left is funtions (like AWS with lambda funtions)
Pros
I love GUI, how easy it´s to deploy a react app with a droplet o a backend with nodejs
Cons
I had some issues with my spaces and contacted customer service around 3 time and they didn´t give a solution
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- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Monthly for 1+ year
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Great Cloud Provider
Reviewed on 2022-06-09
I use DigitalOcean for deploying and hosting a few web applications. A couple of them are with...
I use DigitalOcean for deploying and hosting a few web applications. A couple of them are with collaboration with a designer or another developer. Setting up new instances of different products is easy and deploying is a breeze.
Pros
Very easy to use - can get started pretty quickly with little to no training.
Cons
Parts of the dashboard UI differ too much, making the products that are different harder to find things for configuration.
DigitalOcean FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for DigitalOcean.Q. What type of pricing plans does DigitalOcean offer?
DigitalOcean offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: US$4.00/month
- Pricing model: Subscription
- Free Trial: Available
App Platform: Starting at $0/month Droplets: Starting at $4/month GPU Droplets: Starting at $2.50/GPU/hour Kubernetes: Starting at $12/month Functions: Starting at $0/month Databases: Starting at $15/month Spaces: Starting at $5/month Volumes: Starting at $10/month Load Balancers: Starting at $12/month Container Registry: Starting at $0/month Support Plans: Starting at $0/month Uptime: Starting at $0/month Backups: 20% (for weekly) of Droplet cost per month and 30% (for daily) of Droplet cost per month Additional GPU Options: Please contact DigitalOcean directly for pricing details.
Q. Who are the typical users of DigitalOcean?
DigitalOcean has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does DigitalOcean support?
DigitalOcean supports the following languages:
English
Q. Does DigitalOcean support mobile devices?
DigitalOcean supports the following devices:
Q. What other apps does DigitalOcean integrate with?
DigitalOcean integrates with the following applications:
Kubernetes, Mesosphere, Puppet Enterprise, Rancher, Slack, Terraform
Q. What level of support does DigitalOcean offer?
DigitalOcean offers the following support options:
24/7 (Live rep)
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