DigitalOcean Reviews & Product Details

Simplicity is the killing feature of Digitalocean. And all DO services are really cheap with a great quality! Really a good job!

I would like to have a virtual private network for my server: Some of my clients really dislike this kind of solution.

Thanks to DigitalOcean I realized a lot of services for my some little company here in Turin. All, with a really low budget.

Scalability is the best part of digital ocean, being able to simply say you want more ram and more cores and and just go. You don't have to worry much about billing overages because the strategy they're using basically already covers your maximum liabilities. It is really a great solution for small and mid-sized and even growing businesses, all of whom can get what they need. The only reason I can see someone using something else is that they need to be able to handle in the millions and millions of clients.

I've been using Digital Ocean for about 18 months. My last provider was Rackspace, which has a much more fine-tuned billing strategy but ultimately is more expensive for same or less service. In any case, the only drawback I've found is that for some reason you can upgrade freely, but to downgrade requires basically a server reset unless you've got your "droplet images" and such, which I'm not sure if are free to keep or not.

My current primary endeavor is a type of currency exchange and ultimately we will be using DigitalOcean for it, but mostly I serve some client sites on a droplet and do various other things with my others. At this point I have five of them, various sizes.

Digital oceans great API combined with fast deployments made automating deployments a breeze.

Digital Ocean's lack of node configurations with large CPU only and high capacity storage only makes some configurations expensive. Currently digital oceans configurations are well balanced, but this is not always desirable.

We are using Digital ocean to create an affordable infrastructure for our products where individual clients (small businesses) are assigned their own droplet that can be scaled up and down as needed. The programatic API has made it a pleasure to spin up droplets for this purpose.

It provides detailed information about server, memory, CPU etc

There can be better communication when updates are made otherwise it leads to server down

It makes server load balancing very easy and handy

I find that DigitalOcean makes setting up cloud services an effortless task: their simple cloud administration panel lets you easily provision a server called a 'droplet' in many locations worldwide, not to mention the billing/pricing of each server that you provision can be easily monitored thanks to their wide range of billing monitoring tools. In addition, DigitalOcean makes their cloud developer-friendly: the app platform, a service operated by DigitalOcean that allows developers to deploy applications without any complicated system administration effortlessly, allows developers to get their app up and running in the cloud.

While the cloud administration panel gives you all the tools to make your cloud experience great, I find the built-in console can be a bit troublesome to use sometimes.

DigitalOcean's intuitive cloud administration panel has allowed me to focus on building and deploying my applications to the cloud without worrying about complicated and time-consuming system administration tasks that the cloud often entails.

Very low cost for small MVPs. It's a great tool when I need to launch something fast.

The cost is not scalable once I get to production, which makes it annoying to have to switch once my service grows.

Digitalocean makes it easy to quickly spin up a server ("droplet") to host small web apps

It helps us to scale applications and make sure they run at the same time on different computers

You need to have dev experience to manage it.

It is helping us with one of our clients currently, especially now that we're redesigning their website. We can use multiple apps at the same time on different computers.

Easy to deploy, machine state can be saved easily.

Would like auto scaling to be more integrated into the product.

Running microservices in production. We are now able to deploy more effectively.

The ease of use and setup as well as the support of a number of operating systems and pre-configured software. The API support is great as well.

The difficulty in scaling down nodes, the missing support of more operating systems / custom snapshots of other setups.

DigitalOcean provides me with a simple way of managing infrastructure and setting up servers, which is crucial for running my companies. It saves me time over using other IaaS providers and money over having my own servers.

What I like best about Digital Ocean is that the service is simultaneously straightforward in its simplicity while at the same time not being so simple that options are overly restricted. The interface is easy enough that I can give a quick run-down on setting up a droplet to less "server oriented" colleagues and they can digest the instructions without difficulty and run with it without further input, with the added benefit of having a well written library of support documentation with a helpful community growing with it as well to help out.

A couple of the few things I dislike about Digital Ocean, though these are perhaps more akin to "would like"s or "would rather"s than true dislikes, being by no means deal breakers in reality. These are: 1) being charged for time that a droplet is powered off and not in use - after getting used to the AWS does things in this regard and utilising various methods of bringing instances online only when required to really economise things I guess has spoiled me a little, though in Digital Ocean's case things are a little different with various resources being committed to your instance whereas the case may not be the same in a similar situation with AWS - and there are ways to "sort of" approximate this functionality using snapshots if it's really something that's needed so all is not lost and I understand why Digital Ocean has elected to do things this way. 2) no datacentre in Australia as yet - while it would be fantastic to have a Digital Ocean datacentre in Australia I also understand that achieving and maintaining the price point that Digital Ocean does may not be possible, so can also understand why they haven't made that leap yet.

I have made use of Digital Ocean to solve a number of business challenges in the past, ranging from allowing clients to make an initial step into their online world which they would later outgrow and move on from to being able to quickly test ideas for server implementations, but one that made me the happiest was this one: A little while back I was away from home at a conference where I was delivering a talk on the benefits of bringing together a collection of different open source web applications to create an environment greater than the sum of its parts - as was fairly common I had been exceptionally busy in the lead up to the conference and had not yet completed a world accessible implementation of the technologies I was going to be demonstrating, so on arrival I sat in the lobby of the conference centre with my laptop and utilising Digital Ocean was able to rapidly set up a small array of servers and relatively quickly implement my demonstration implementation in plenty of time for the talk.

It is one of the easiest ways to to make a VPS, You can choose between a variety of operation systems like Ubuntu. There are alot of droplets choices you can choose between with different prices. The best thing about it is the free trial period that they give you when you register, that allows you to try everything they offer for free.

What I dislike the most is that it has bad reputation, so when you consider this to be your email marketing server, you should know that it will be blacklisted most of the time. And they dont make any effort to prevent spammers from using there services

I am an email marketer, and I use DigitalOcean droplets to create vps to host my smtp server, this allows me to send emails to my list.

The ability to ssh into the system from my terminal

It can get very slow if you use the web interface

The need for a powerful computer when doing offsite work

It's a clean IaaS with a great API, fast, simple, powerful and fairly inexpensive.

It doesn't have all the bells and whistles that AWS has (but it really doesn't need to), I just wish it had more, like attachable volumes to allow disk size variations.

I needed a simple and fast IaaS, with a great API.

So, this is my take on Digital Ocean: it's more complicated than it should be, but the product is useful. I inherited the system from my boss who left the company and I know that so many of our servers and services and softwares and programs are hosted by Digital Ocean. So, I know it does so much good for us and our company. Super useful for holding servers to host RStudio, APIs, shinyapps, GitHub and GitLab accounts, and much more.

It is SO complicated and it uses so much confusing jargon. And the informational documentation is not up to par as much as it should be. What's a kernel, for example? Since it's a new-tech term, I have to google it and search in more places than I would appreciate just to be able to use basic Digital Ocean functionality.

Hosting servers is the big one. It lets us consolidate so so much.

The resources are managed automatically. The upscaling and downscaling. The processes are way simpler than AWS

The price. It's way expensive than its competitors. I recieved a coupon but it was valid for 6 months while competitors are giving free services for an year.

Developed a node js application for a client and

it can create a droplet, etc a virtual machine very easily.It's very convenient to pay the fee.

You can't get your money back when you decide to stop, and the internet speed is not quite stable from asisa, sometimes it's pretty slow.

mostly i use it to host my website and as a proxy server.

The opportunity to collaborate on world issues that are related to a fragile and vital resource

The inter connectivity between tabs and the vagueness of the intention of the project. Sometimes it is hard to know how and when to collaborate and what the overall usefulness is with all the other platforms out there.

Discussing ocean related issues and posting content for others. Benefits were that people followed the content

Digital is a very platform no doubt but price is a issue

Great platform but price issue in my opinion should be fixed

It is great platform. Make learning easy. Delivery of content is great

Clean administration interface. Not many features but reliable.

The customer support is close to non existent, non-helpful and borderline disrepectful. They use other companie's technology (i.e S3 for storage) but only implement it halfway. You spend hours debugging an issue on your side when it's actually missing on their side. And when you contact support first thing the do is to push you the fault on your implementation, tell you to read the doc, and then disappear for the next 24h.

Cloud provider.

They did not have the tools I wanted to create my own VPN

Their customer service does nothing for you; they asked for my credit card number for "Verification." And two days later, a $12 charge on my card for using nothing. My profile is empty, and nobody even answers it. The customer support says 24/7, but they do not even respond to your request!

Nothing