DigitalOcean
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DigitalOcean Pricing
Plan 1 - $5/month Plan 2 - $10/month Plan 3 - $20/month Plan 4 - $40/month Plan 5 - $50/month
Starting price:
$5.00 per month
Free trial:
Available
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Most Helpful Reviews for DigitalOcean
1 - 5 of 128 Reviews
Marc Vincent
Verified reviewer
Internet, 1 employee
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed September 2020
Why I love DigitalOcean
Easy, fast, and will not break the bank.
PROSSet up is a breeze even if I've only started working with Linux when I tried it.
CONSBasic Linux/server knowledge is required to effectively use their service which is common to VPS services.
Reason for choosing DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean doesn't have as much features/capabilities as AWS or GCP but what it has is enough for someone just trying out VPS (and even for more advanced usage). They also managed to distill the features down to the most basic so it's not as daunting as AWS or GCP.
Reasons for switching to DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean's interface was cleaner and much easier to digest especially for someone just starting out.
Burak
Verified reviewer
Civil Engineering, 1 employee
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
2
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed August 2022
Affordable but has some problems
My overall experience with them is good but I suggest DigitalOcean users to back up their droplets frequently to another service provider. If they lock your account, the customer service is hard to reach and if they wouldn't restore your access, you are risking losing your data.
PROSThe user interface is really easy to use, with a few clicks it allows you to create a droplet across the globe. Also, it is easy to manage access controls and overall network/firewall rules. They provide affordable S3 like data storage solution called "Spaces". If you are switching from Amazon S3, the best thing about Spaces is it compatible with official S3 libraries which eliminates the implementation process as you can use the same infrastructure for Spaces too.
CONSThey should revise Spaces product page/documentation. I had to reach customer support to verify that spaces is just a subscription service so it comes with unlimited buckets. This information is not provided on their product page. Also, their customer service is really hard to reach, and they are not helpful. The worst thing about their service is their automated bots. They can lock your account without a valid reason, and it really hard to convince them to undo it.
Reason for choosing DigitalOcean
The control panel of DigitalOcean is better than Vultr.
Reasons for switching to DigitalOcean
Amazon AWS was too expensive.
Anonymous
11-50 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
1
EASE OF USE
1
VALUE FOR MONEY
1
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
1
FUNCTIONALITY
1
Reviewed January 2023
Worst company ever, losing data
Worst
PROSIt was having good UI but that is not enough at all.
CONSAfter upgrading my managed database it is losing a few days of data and networking not working, so my platform is unreachable and no solution already 2 days.
Musa
Banking, 10,000+ employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed January 2024
Impressive and reliable way to accelerate growth.
Cost effective and user friendly software. Best for all.
PROSDigitalOcean has unique and very relatable features which are key ingredients to building a lasting customer experience. It is quite cost effective and simple to use. The customer support team has been very active in assisting us in setting up the tool. Web hosting and VPS hosting are made effortless. DigitalOcean is a great idea.
CONSDigitalOcean is good. Nothing is challenging especially with prior knowledge on similar tools.
Anonymous
2-10 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed June 2020
Deploying Linux or open-source software? Use DigitalOcean
In a word -- superb on all fronts -- as an example, we were replicating a certain image type that wouldn't work -- any time we'd load the image on a new box, it would fail. It turned out to be a very specific issue around the length of the image name on a specific Debian release -- the DigitalOcean support team figured it out, and looped back with us, long after we'd simply rebuilt the image.
PROSThe most amazingly refreshing platform to use in a long time, especially for back-end work. We'd switched from AWS, which was incredibly cumbersome to administer.
CONSWe sometimes have had to migrate between data centers because the machines we wanted in the data center in which we already had nodes didn't have the same node available for scaling.
Reason for choosing DigitalOcean
at the time, price and ease of administration
Reasons for switching to DigitalOcean
at the time, price and ease of administration