DigitalOcean Reviews & Product Details

I get top-notch and consistent performance at the best price anywhere. In this regard Digital Ocean cannot be beat. In addition, the documentation and community are first rate, and while focused on business owners and their use cases (i.e. simple and straightforward), can and do often go very deep. None of the big three cpuld providers can touch that.

There is nothing I truly dislike about Digital Ocean. One minor quibble is droplet downtime during maintenance periods, but that generally happens at time slots when it doesn't matter to me, so it is largely a moot point. And the downtime is very short.

Digital Ocean is first and foremost a small and medium business focused provider, as opposed to primarily focused on developers like the big three (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure). As a result, Digital Ocean offerings are easy to understand and use for anyone with a modicum of technical knowledge, whereas for the big three one needs extensive training first.

Ability to deploy, upgrade or downgrade server specs as needed at any point + flexible pricing. For example, at some point a certain project would not compile due to low end server specs. I was able to easily upgrade the server, compile the project and downgrade the server back. If I need to test some software I can deploy a new server with one-click configuration in a few minutes, test the software and discard the server. Another great thing is community guides. Plenty of useful information to help deploy and configure various software and environments. DigitalOcean dashboard is nice and easy to use. And I've just realized that in the years of using the service I rarely have to log in to my dashboard. Which is I big plus — when you "set and forget" the service, it means it just works.

The only issue I had at some point is outgoing email delivery due to blacklisted IP address. Some email providers had to blacklist a whole range of IPs belonging to Digital Ocean. This might be a result of how easy it is to deploy a server and abuse it for unsolicited email delivery. To be fair it’s something that any cloud provider might experience and DO support was quite helpful.

I’m running web sites for my own software products. Nothing big, so a cheap low end server spec is enough for me. I’ve been using DigitalOcean for a few years now and I'm happy with it.

While I believe AWS provides many more services than Digital Ocean, the advantage Digital Ocean has is that of simplicity. You sign up, add card details and you are pretty much good to go. You can start for as low as $5/month which is very cheap for students or for people who are just getting started.

There is nothing at the moment that I dislike about Digital Ocean. However it could add some inbuilt AI/ML processing tools that could help the community.

Deployment simplicity, Access simplicity, one click apps. Benefits are the clear documentation that is provided, which has saved me so many times even when Im not using digital ocean

Really just a great company all around. Definitely recommend.

There isn't much to dislike. I would have liked it if they did not raise their prices but it's worth it.

Na

Simple pricing model, simple UI, powerful tools!

Lack of support for adding Spaces with domains managed by external DNSes (with Let's Encrypt automatic integration)

DO makes it pain-free to quickly and reliably deploy Droplets and other products without having to walk through multiple hoops and configurations in complicated interfaces.

What I like most about Digital Ocean is the simplicity of the products as well as the prices.

Not many regions supported as other cloud providers.

Deploying applications using Kubernetes but also using VMs for general workloads, CI/CD and running web apps.

auto-backup for droplets makes you feel you're safe if you want to do any upgrades or change on your server configuration

you can't downgrade after upgrading your droplets, if you're already upgraded noway to go back.

zero down time and flexibility in upgrade and choose what you need

Infrastructure as Service can be easily scalable and downgraded on the Fly. Lower Cost best platform for SMB business.

Missing Partner Portal Management, Where new customers can be assigned to the partner billing. Better Discount for Partners. Bring Our own IP pool.

Infrastructure as Service can be easily scalable and downgraded on the Fly. Lower Cost best platform for SMB business.

Control panel. It is full of functionality and helpful tools.

Waiting times for deployment of dropplets.

Helping me learn about hosting.

No downtime, the website is easy to navigate and make changes to the droplet.

I have not had any issues with Digital Ocean. Compared to AWS, DO servers are much cheaper. I do wish that over time the DO prices would drop as the AWS server prices do.

Building a financial web app, making a NiFI cluster, exploring some network security for a class.