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What is DigitalOcean?

DigitalOcean is a cloud hosting platform built to serve the needs of startups and established businesses. The software gives developers access to building, deployment, and scaling applications. The platform is best known for its flexible pricing structure and global data centers, as well as an easy-to-use, intuitive control panel.

Company DigitalOcean Holdings
Year founded 2012
Company size 1001-5000 employees
Headquarters New York, NY
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481 DigitalOcean Reviews
4.6 out of 5
Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Feb 04, 2022
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"DigitalOcean - Affordable AWS"
What do you like best about DigitalOcean?

The best part of DO is the pricing, which allows smaller startups/individual developers to easily create apps affordably.

What do you dislike about DigitalOcean?

It would be great if you could import/export Snapshots from Droplets, and possibly a more affordable App Platform.

What problems is DigitalOcean solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use DigitalOcean to deploy NodeJS chat bots by scale. The best benefit by using DigitalOcean is the price to quality ratio, which is perfect. All the features of AWS/GCP in DigitalOcean.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Feb 04, 2022
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5.0
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"Very good"
What do you like best about DigitalOcean?

The ease of drop let creation and existing templates

What do you dislike about DigitalOcean?

More variety in templates, for example Apache Superset

What problems is DigitalOcean solving and how is that benefiting you?

Data analysis, odk hosting, mysql hosting

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Feb 02, 2022
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5.0
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"DigitalOcean makes the cloud simple"
What do you like best about DigitalOcean?

What I like about DigitalOcean is the simplicity and variety of the services provided and that everything works.

What do you dislike about DigitalOcean?

Nothing, their offerings are well suited for my needs, especially their Kubernetes clusters

What problems is DigitalOcean solving and how is that benefiting you?

Building APIs

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 27, 2022
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5.0
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"Digital Ocean is a very good partner for us"
What do you like best about DigitalOcean?

Reliablity, good tools and lots of documentation!

What do you dislike about DigitalOcean?

Well, digital ocean makes a vey good platform. I don't have any dislikes!

What problems is DigitalOcean solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are running our company servers on digital ocean.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 27, 2022
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5.0
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"Brilliant"
What do you like best about DigitalOcean?

The large variety of products and affordable pricing.

What do you dislike about DigitalOcean?

Sometimes, the tutorials are unclear about certain things or have missing information for beginners.

What problems is DigitalOcean solving and how is that benefiting you?

Hosting rather expensive software on Digital Ocena servers saves a lot of money.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 17, 2022
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5.0
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"Cost Effective Droplets - No Hidden Costs"
What do you like best about DigitalOcean?

Creating droplets from the pre-existing images. Easy to attach volumes and floating IPs. The User Interface is good. There is no hidden costs, we will be paying that are specified upfront. simple and economical pricing.

What do you dislike about DigitalOcean?

Creating an instance from the snapshot is dependent on the image size and it takes forever. Same thing while moving a snapshot from one region to another.

What problems is DigitalOcean solving and how is that benefiting you?

creating droplets from the cloud panel. creating firewalls and attaching to the droplet. creating snapshots from the running droplet and launching droplet from the snapshots.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Sep 03, 2021
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Overall Rating:
5.0
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"Best servers out there"
What do you like best about DigitalOcean?

Digital Ocean droplets are amazing, they're extremely easy to use, connect and manage. There are scalable in many different ways and overall just amazing to work with and host on.

What do you dislike about DigitalOcean?

I genuinely have nothing I dislike about the droplets, they're amazing and I've never had an issue with them.

What problems is DigitalOcean solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use digital ocean to host apps and services for all to use, and it helps out a lot of people. But on the actual vps-side, it's finally an easily usable dashboard, and it's all simple and easy to use.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Aug 15, 2021
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Overall Rating:
5.0
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"Digital Ocean"
What do you like best about DigitalOcean?

No downtime for servers. Website speed was excellent.

What do you dislike about DigitalOcean?

Not for beginners. Require techincal expertise.

What problems is DigitalOcean solving and how is that benefiting you?

Building WordPress websites. Great servers compared to others.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jul 13, 2021
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Overall Rating:
5.0
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"Best cloud computing company"
What do you like best about DigitalOcean?

Everything ,right from price point to user experience to customers support

What do you dislike about DigitalOcean?

Nothing much to say.. they are thorough professional company.. they know their space well

What problems is DigitalOcean solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are solving upfront cost of server and storage by using digital ocean services

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Nov 21, 2020
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5.0
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"cloud computing has never been easier"
What do you like best about DigitalOcean?

digitalocean is built by developers for developers so they understand our needs and in my opinion DO droplets are the best and easiest way to deploy code.

What do you dislike about DigitalOcean?

there’s nothing that i dislike about digitalocean, their features fulfill our needs so nothing to complain about.

What problems is DigitalOcean solving and how is that benefiting you?

our wordpress website is hosted on a linux droplet provided by DigitalOcean at an affordable price, we also use it to deploy some python scripts that we developed internally to automate some company tasks.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Dec 01, 2019
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5.0
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"The Simpler Cloud One Should use is DigitalOcean cloud"
What do you like best about DigitalOcean?

Simpler interface of its dashboard is very likely the thing for beggineer. A one with at least knowledge of operating system and internet knowledge can work effortlessly with digitalocean cloud service. The developer who is trying to deploying an application can start with simple apps that already have an installed software's which are necessary of their choice, so he can be more focused on the code he is making.

What do you dislike about DigitalOcean?

There is nothing to dislike with the digital ocean service. although i will notify my dislikes if i found any.

What problems is DigitalOcean solving and how is that benefiting you?

I have my back-end of my server running on digital ocean cloud. Which is hosted using digital ocean virtual machine instance. Which is running 24/7 and serves to my clients which are end user of the smartphone application which is hosted on playstore. I can manage my resources based on my requirements like i can increase my ram or increase my cpu whenever i need them. There is simple documentation on digitalocean blog which comes handy lot of time.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Nov 14, 2019
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5.0
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"Fantastic Server Provider"
What do you like best about DigitalOcean?

I love how easy is to setup your own server for hosting applications and their low prices!

What do you dislike about DigitalOcean?

I would like them to implement more services like AWS so they can be more competitive.

What problems is DigitalOcean solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am hosting the company's main application/website in it.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Oct 26, 2019
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5.0
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"Simple and affordable but yet super powerful platform!"
What do you like best about DigitalOcean?

DigitalOcean's cloud platform is suitable for both individuals just working on their side projects and for big companies with huge demands with hundreds of thousands of servers. I also love their managed Kubernetes service, you can simply get a Kubernetes cluster up and running with just a couple of clicks. Also, their new Managed MySQL database service is great, you can spin new read-only replicas with just a click of a button.

What do you dislike about DigitalOcean?

There's nothing that I don't like, their prices are amazing, their services are amazing as well!

What problems is DigitalOcean solving and how is that benefiting you?

If you need a server to test something, you could spin it up for less than 30 seconds and it would cost you $0.007 per hour.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Oct 18, 2019
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Overall Rating:
5.0
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"Best hosting "
What do you like best about DigitalOcean?

Simply the best hosting I have used Simply the best hosting I have used. Followed a guide from SimonWard.net and have all my sites now hosted on the same droplet running fast and secure! I recommend DigitalOcean over any other hosting.

What do you dislike about DigitalOcean?

I've been with Digital Ocean for over 3 years and for the first time recently required tech support due to troubles with their emailing of authentication codes. Their tech support are slower than they are arrogant. It took 5 days to get nowhere with them - while they publicly acknowledged an error with their emailing, privately they blamed me & were unhelpful then just gave up. Great services but the negative reviews are accurate - their customer service is appalling. If this matters to you, go elsewhere.

What problems is DigitalOcean solving and how is that benefiting you?

using their VPS for more than 4 years without problem ! great payment system, invoices, support, services maybe not cheapest, but they have the most and best services

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Oct 17, 2019
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Overall Rating:
5.0
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"Easy Sign Up Process"
What do you like best about DigitalOcean?

It is very easy to sign up and pay and the droplet deploys within seconds.

What do you dislike about DigitalOcean?

The fact that it is easy to destroy without a proper questionnaire.

What problems is DigitalOcean solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use digital ocean to host my vehicle tracking platform.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Oct 16, 2019
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5.0
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"Best Servers I ever used"
What do you like best about DigitalOcean?

The best thing is they provide high speed bandwidth

What do you dislike about DigitalOcean?

Price is little bit higher as compare to others

What problems is DigitalOcean solving and how is that benefiting you?

I like Servers because they provide good bandwidth to my websites

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Sep 24, 2019
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5.0
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"A clean, easy and quick platform"
What do you like best about DigitalOcean?

The DigitalOcean platform is very clean and easy to understand, anyone with little knowledge of cloud can also manage it. Spinning up an droplet is very easy and quick. We can use API to integrate the platform with CI/CD. The pricing is straightforward and there are no hidden costs.

What do you dislike about DigitalOcean?

The platform does not provide enough services to completely move on it and we end up with using multiple services.

What problems is DigitalOcean solving and how is that benefiting you?

* We use the DigitalOcean platform for our CI/CD purpose. * The management of compute resource is very easy. * We are able to quickly spin up new instances. * The resource utilization alerts.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Sep 24, 2019
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5.0
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"Great Experience"
What do you like best about DigitalOcean?

Setting up your droplet and getting your application hosted and running is very simple and painless

What do you dislike about DigitalOcean?

I don't think I can answer this question.

What problems is DigitalOcean solving and how is that benefiting you?

Host the application I built

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Sep 08, 2019
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5.0
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"Affordable and High-Quality"
What do you like best about DigitalOcean?

DigitalOcean has many benefits including low-cost and reliability. DigitalOcean allows you to rent a VPS (Virtual Private Server) and pay for it hourly; this means that if you only want a server for a few hours you don't have to pay much. Although the prices are low, I'm impressed by the features and support which is often better than more expensive hosting providers.

What do you dislike about DigitalOcean?

DigitalOcean doesn't have any inexpensive options for large data storage so if you wanted to store many files or a large database, the hosting bill would become very expensive.

What problems is DigitalOcean solving and how is that benefiting you?

DigitalOcean makes it very easy to quickly deploy a server for testing purposes or for handling a sudden increased load which requires more computational power.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Oct 17, 2018
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Overall Rating:
5.0
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"Best bang for your buck in VPS solutions"
What do you like best about DigitalOcean?

Coming from a Windows Server environment and wanting to try an inexpensive Linux VPS instead, I found the documentation to be extremely helpful. Coupled with a little bit of Linux command line research and DO documentation, I got myself up and running on a very secure server in no time.

What do you dislike about DigitalOcean?

Some other reviews relating to "deleted block storage" volumes or other products has me a little worried (these reviews relate to lack of payment/updating expired payment methods). But I have two payment methods in place so I shouldn't have anything to worry about. I would recommend thoroughly reading all reviews to determine if DO is a good fit for you; but so far I haven't experienced any real issues of my own.

What problems is DigitalOcean solving and how is that benefiting you?

I have a shared hosting plan with GoDaddy and tried their VPS as well. I found it more advantageous and less expensive to use Digital Ocean for my VPS and keep any small websites on my GoDaddy shared hosting, thereby making the best use of both web hosts. Any larger web applications are now hosted on my Digital Ocean account where I can also easily set up background jobs to reduce the amount of work I have to do from administrative functions (eg. invoicing) to automatic database backups etc.

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