--- title: "DigitalOcean Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice" description: "Reviews of DigitalOcean. Learn how real users rate this software's ease-of-use, functionality, overall quality and customer support. Talk to our advisors to see if DigitalOcean is a good fit for you!" source_url: "https://www.softwareadvice.com/virtual-machine/digitalocean-profile/reviews/" page_type: "reviews" language: "en" --- 1 million+ businesses helped. Get advice Get Free Advice [Home](https://www.softwareadvice.com/) / [Database Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com/database-management-systems/) / [DigitalOcean](https://www.softwareadvice.com/virtual-machine/digitalocean-profile/) / DigitalOcean Reviews Software Advice offers objective insights based on verified user reviews and independent product and market research. When our advisors match you to a software provider, we may earn a referral fee. [Overview](https://www.softwareadvice.com/virtual-machine/digitalocean-profile/) Reviews [Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/virtual-machine/digitalocean-profile/alternatives/) # DigitalOcean User Reviews ## Reviews summary - Overall rating: 4.6/5 - Total reviews: 159 ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 4.6/5 - Customer support: 4.3/5 - Value for money: 4.5/5 - Functionality: 4.6/5 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 115 reviews (72%) - 4 stars: 36 reviews (23%) - 3 stars: 3 reviews (2%) - 2 stars: 0 reviews (0%) - 1 star: 5 reviews (3%) ### Most mentioned pros - For me student like specializing in Computer science have most hands on practical development with Web application for both university study projects and real world projects. - I have not seen issues with security, performance and speed may depend on various factors, but the service quality is greatly improved by the community experience - DigitalOcean app platform is super impressive for hosting powerful apps and deploying static web apps faster. ### Most mentioned cons - DigitalOcean fully disabled our entire website due to a vague DMCA complaint targeting a single URL. - A system in which a nonspecific complaint can shut down a live business is deeply concerning. - Getting droplets set up to customize accounting tools can be complicated without IT support so it hampers me as a non-technical person. ## DigitalOcean customer reviews Showing reviews 1-25 of 159 (page 1). ### Digital Ocean experience - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Michal P. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Accounting - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2026 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros I really like the ease of setting up a server on DigitalOcean. They make it really easy and quick for the average user. They also offer great value. #### Cons I am pretty satisfied with my use of digital ocean, I would say I dont have anything negative to say about my experience. Something they could consider is an AI assistant to help in the monitoring of deployments. #### Reasons for choosing DigitalOcean It was cheaper and easier to set up when I just needed a virtual private server. --- ### DigitalOcean Review - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Eric N. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Consumer Services - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: January 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered My overall experience has been top-notch, we have never had any problem using it from day one and i highly recommend it. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros What I like most about DigitalOcean are its ease of use and user-friendly interface. DigitalOcean provides a simple and intuitive control panel that makes it easy for users to create and manage their resources, such as Droplets, spaces, load balancers, and more. This can be beneficial for users who are new to cloud computing or who want to avoid the complexity of other cloud providers. #### Cons The only throwback I have with DigitalOcean is that it may not have as many features and services as some of the larger cloud providers, such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud. DigitalOcean focuses mainly on providing simple, easy-to-use solutions for developers and small to medium-sized businesses, and may not have as many specialized services or advanced features as some of the larger providers. But am sure they are working on adding more features soon. #### Reasons for choosing DigitalOcean Because of its user-friendly interface and easy-to-use solutions platform. #### Reasons for switching to DigitalOcean Because of its user-friendly interface and easy-to-use solutions platform. --- ### One of the best providers for virtual private servers and other digital services. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Vasilis K. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2025 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. My overall experience with DigitalOcean has been great. I use it to host many of my web projects, manage my domains, storage, databases, etc. It's also cheap for simple setups but you can easily scale it if needed. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros I really like how fast it is to spin up and setup your own virtual private server. I also love the detailed and straightforward documentation and articles. #### Cons It's hard to find something that I don't like. Maybe something that could be improved is the pricing. It would be great if there was an option for a pay-as-you-go plan. --- ### DigitalOcean - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Romaric S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Digital ocean saves the cost of hosting both for my company and for the clients and this keeps me happy especially as I get the best speed performance too. I recommend digital ocean #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Currently, Digital ocean is my number one recommended VPS provider. It provides reliable and flexible hosting features which can fully be managed by the user himself.Although it does require advanced knowledge in cloud computing, but did its best to maintain everything simple and straightforward.The company offers step-by-step article guides for all its products. This keeps the customer well-oriented.All of the servers are hosted in secure and trusted countries and this ensures an accurate distribution of data, hence providing more speed and enthusiasm for users and site owners.It offers flexible pricing plans which are easily scalable (depending on the user's needs) and what entices me more is the pay-as-you-go pricing model which enables me to pay for only what I use. This is quite different from all these web hosting companies who will trick you to pay for some hosting commitments.I run more than three WordPress websites on a single droplet ( 2Cores CPU, 2 Gb RAM, and Ubuntu 18.04), and after testing three different themes and a number of plugins; the speed performance results are still amazing.The Digital ocean user interface is very neat & organized. This helps to facilitate feature placement recognition. The company also provides a built-in commands terminal which makes it easier to run the server installation process as well as any other reacquired components.The company support staff is very friendly. #### Cons I have no issues with its quality of service so far, maybe there might be some in the future. But as for now, everything works to my expectations. #### Reasons for switching to DigitalOcean I used all of these web hosting providers in the past and had to migrate to the digital ocean for many reasons (respective to each hosting provider) with the major reason being that the quality of speed performance was either mediocre or even poor. --- ### Affordable but has some problems - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Burak O. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Civil Engineering - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered 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. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 2/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The 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. #### Cons They 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. #### Reasons for choosing DigitalOcean The control panel of DigitalOcean is better than Vultr. #### Reasons for switching to DigitalOcean Amazon AWS was too expensive. --- ### Digital Ocean is in my top 5 for hosting solutions - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Daniel K. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Internet - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. 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. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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 Easy to deploy, affordable solutions, but also less managing options. Digital Ocean has it's own uses cases, different from other providers. #### Reasons for switching to 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. --- ### Intuitive Tools for Creating Infrastructure - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Lazer P. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. 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. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. #### Reasons for choosing DigitalOcean Amazon is a little more expensive and their UI is not terribly friendly or pretty. I know that seems silly, but in DigitalOcean the UI explains itself and I always know where to look for what I need. Amazon seems like a really busy UI. Pricing is easy to understand and I felt more confident with DO that I wasn't going to get a surprise bill. --- ### Best for Web Hosting and Deployment - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Minn K. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: E-Learning - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Digital Ocean, one of the best web hosting platform for Web applications. For me student like specializing in Computer science have most hands on practical development with Web application for both university study projects and real world projects. The best part is affordable price and deployment feature and its tutorial step by step. I have hosted and deployed various web app for project show case and real world deployment for my projects. #### Cons One of the feature the least like in app platform development which auto deploy feature is good in most cases but some cases require to mange and modify configurations directly to the deployed instance. In such cases instance restart from scratch and changes are lost. They need to make option for those use cases. --- ### Good solid Cloud provider - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Andrew M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2025 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Simple Cloud Service that is easy to setup and use for a reasonable price. It just works #### Cons Lacks the depth of tooling and range of services compared with the larger providerss --- ### Great produce - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Saad K. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Higher Education - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: June 2025 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. The overall experience in terms of quality of service was great. Highly recommended especially for startups that do not have the capital to host servers. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Seamless hosting of my website that was scalable on the go with convenient pricing strategy that fits budget for small ventures to enterprise level. Highly recommended. #### Cons Though the pricing strategy is flexible, it can be a bit pricy for small ventures that are not generating revenues. --- ### Cheap but with some limits - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Samuel C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I have use it his service 10 years ago, with almost more than hundreds of loads and experience of many of his services. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Is easy to implement a short project, the prices is low, I think is the number 1 for create vps and web apps like Wordpress with 1 click button. #### Cons The process for move to other public cloud are confuse and in some case impossible. #### Reasons for choosing DigitalOcean The price and the usability, the process to pay and the bills are cool. --- ### Easy to use and easy Deployments. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Vansh K. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: January 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Provisioning the `Cloud Services is simple with Digital Ocean, I have been implementing ERPNext Solutions on Digital Ocean, it is easy to provision the server and then do the installation. Whether it is doing backup or restore the Server. It is much easier with Digital Ocean platform. Anyone can learn Digital Ocean without much efforts. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Digital Ocean Platform is easy to use and easy to deploy, User interface is simple and provisioning services are on few clicks #### Cons It is not advance as many other cloud platforms are today --- ### DigitalOcean is a wonderful tool for developers and small businesses - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Aaron L. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Publishing - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. My overall experience. When I first started, I was a beginner in server management. There was a time where I didn't know what I was doing. But after spending time with the documentation and researching further user forums, I felt more confident that I understood how DigitalOcean worked for me. Now I can safely say that this was a good investment into my future business. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I really enjoy the use of Droplets to build my own servers just the way I want. With options to control how large my server is and more options to scale it in the future, I can be assured that DigitalOcean will have what I need. #### Cons There is always room for improvement with any application. DigitalOcean makes is hard to find faults but I would say improving the console experience is always at the forefront of my mind. Making shortcuts and scripts to set up servers quickly would be nice for brand new users. #### Reasons for choosing DigitalOcean With DigitalOcean, the starting price point made the deal for me. I also wanted to learn from the ground up instead of having a pre-built solution. Both options are welcome in certain contexts but when you need to learn more and dive deeper, take a dip in the DigitalOcean. --- ### DigitalOcean review - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Joël T. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered DigitalOcean is one of the best cloud hosting providers and it's a great option for app and web hosting. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros DigitalOcean offers the best hosting services in terms of speed performance, budget, and security. We've used its services for many years now and it's really worth paying for it.Virtual servers are easy to set up with their integrated terminal which doesn't necessarily require putty or any other third-party terminal to run the servers.We've tested the most recent versions of Ubuntu on it and it works without bugs. The company ensures content safety and empowers with the best support ever.It supports both Plesk and Cyber panel very well.We only pay for what we use and this helps us to save more money as compared to few other hosting providers that we've been using. #### Cons There is no bad with their services so far. --- ### Techie’s best choice - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Harshit C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer & Network Security - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I am using digitalocean since 3 years I an extremely satisfied #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros The software comes with a free one year subscription if you have github pro which is insanely good and the power and speed the virtual machines have i think no other machines have in the world #### Cons The product is designed in such a way leaves no cons back #### Reasons for choosing DigitalOcean Price range and quality --- ### Great Service for being in control of our own servers - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Josh L. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. It has been good and I see no reason to think of moving. Service is great, price is good too. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I like that they provide inexpensive virtual machine hosting and allow for complete control over it. You can resize machines quite easily, make snapshots of VM's control firewall settings etc. #### Cons It is not always easy to find the section you are looking for but a quick google helps easily. #### Reasons for switching to DigitalOcean Because it was not great replying on another hosting provider for support as it took a long time to get things resolved when we could do it ourselves if we have full server control. --- ### Fast, Easy, and Reliable Hosting with DigitalOcean - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Bill Laurel P. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros DigitalOcean is an ideal choice for backend development, as it offers a great deal of flexibility in terms of server options, an intuitive user interface, and fast deployment cycles. Developers have access to virtual private servers (VPS) and dedicated servers, allowing them to customize the server according to their specific needs, from the size and type of hardware to the operating system and software installed. Additionally, the wide range of pre-configured options allows for quick setup and deployment, making it ideal for automated deployments. These features make DigitalOcean one of the best choices for backend development, enabling developers to develop and deploy applications rapidly. #### Cons I dislike that DigitalOcean does not offer as many services as some of their competitors. They are making a great effort to add more services, but they are still behind in comparison to other cloud providers. --- ### A very good experience despite the prices - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Barnabe H. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: November 2024 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I had a great experience with digital ocean. The support team has always been there for any problem, and usually respond within a day. The only con is related to th prices #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Very simple UI, an effective and fast support. Also, everything needed is present. #### Cons The prices are a bit high, and VAT-excluded. --- ### Great cloud service, one of the best - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros I use DigitalOcean for many of my projects for about 5 years already. I'm very happy with the different features and support DigitalOcean provides. My most used feature is DigitalOcean apps. This is a great and easy way to run your projects without the need to configure virtual servers. #### Cons One important limitation is that DigitalOcean uses CloudFlare so the request time is limited to 100 seconds and this can't be changed. You will get a timeout after this time. Because of this limitation, I'm using Google Cloud Run for one of my API. --- ### A good place for your VPS - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Piotr P. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Internet - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2021 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered We use DigitalOcean for a couple of years now to maintain our websites. It keeps running with no issues, so we are pleased with that outcome. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Very easy to create, backup and replicate VPS servers. Everything is in the right place and the web panel is very user friendly. Pricing for newly created servers is very clear and fair. #### Cons Sometimes you need to get to the console, do the research and set up something, but it's VPS so you kind of agreed to that #### Reasons for choosing DigitalOcean Recommendation #### Reasons for switching to DigitalOcean DigitalOcean was recommended by our DevOps --- ### Impressive and reliable way to accelerate growth. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Musa Z. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Banking - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2024 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Cost effective and user friendly software. Best for all. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros DigitalOcean 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. #### Cons DigitalOcean is good. Nothing is challenging especially with prior knowledge on similar tools. --- ### Good Cloud and Infrastructure providers for hosting - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Sakthi v. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered very good cloud service providers for small scale and startups. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Digital Ocean help us to provide virtual machines within our budget and easy to manage services provide by digital ocean without complexity. #### Cons Based on our usage digital ocean fulfil our requirements. They need to add more services like other cloud competitors. --- ### Fantastic value and easy to use - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Toby T. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. DigitalOcean does what it needs for us - highly flexible, low cost cloud hosting, with scaled up resources at the click of a butotn. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Digital Ocean is unbeatable on cost and ease of use for an IAAS. Managing droplets is intuitive and as simple as you can hope for. Uptime / reliability is great. #### Cons Doesn't have as much power as AWS, but that's the trade-off for simplicity. #### Reasons for choosing DigitalOcean Balance of simplicity and cost --- ### Nightmare company erased all our data and backups - Overall rating: 1/5 - Reviewer: Robin R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Fine Art - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2024 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 1/5 - Value for money: 1/5 - Customer support: 1/5 - Functionality: 1/5 #### Pros 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. --- ### Excellent VPS Hosting - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Michael Y. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Entertainment - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. DigitalOcean basically runs all of our cloud infrastructure at this point! From web servers and databases to our inventory management applications- everything has never been more stable, secure and I 10/10 recommend DigitalOcean! #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros The ease of use is really what shines here, it just works. Over the past 2 years I have had almost no downtime! All of my cloud infrastructure runs on Digital Ocean now, and I've never even bothered looking elsewhere! #### Cons The only downfall, is that I wish there were more flexible pricing options. I wish there was a droplet sized smaller then the $5 option, as well as more a-la-carte options #### Reasons for choosing DigitalOcean Pricing and customer service ## More reviews [Next reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/virtual-machine/digitalocean-profile/reviews/?page=2) --- DigitalOcean Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice