DigitalOcean

My new favourite cloud provider.

Kommentare: Porting my app to DigitalOcean was an absolute breeze. We went looking for a platform as a service provider that could replace Heroku without losing all the zero-config creature comforts we have come to expect, and DigitalOcean has more than met the mark. We are confident that we will have every need met throughout our scaling journey, and that the pricing will be fair all the way up.

Vorteile:

DigitalOcean is the simplest and most cost-effective platform-as-a-service provider I have ever used. Their simplicity does not come at additional cost unlike Heroku, and they have all the tooling and infrastructure to manage your every cloud need. Their documentation is spectacular, and their support is second to none.

Nachteile:

If there are any cons to using DigitalOcean, I haven't encountered them yet. My experience so far has been absolutely flawless and I am a very happy customer.

Simple, Reliable and Developer Friendly

Kommentare: Its been great, easy setup, reliable performance, and fair pricing. Perfect for straight forward hosting needs without much hassle

Vorteile:

I love how simple and user friendly DigitalOcean is. Setting up droplets is quick and the pricing is straight forward. No hidden suprises

Nachteile:

Sometimes support can be slow, especially during high traffic times. Would love faster response options

Nightmare company erased all our data and backups

Vorteile:

It seemed reliable but isn´t - it´s a horror company.

Nachteile:

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 Within this period, our company credit card was outdated, so the monthly payment couldn´t be processed.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.

Very good hoster

Kommentare: Very good experience, there are good options but marketplace's images needs to be updated or deleted.
Very good hoster to build website or apps.

Vorteile:

Easy to create droplets with a lot of options Good panel with simples options, good for beginners

Nachteile:

Price is a little bit high for some products (Databases for example) Marketplace's apps are not up to date for many (example: Airbyte)

Simple and affordable hosting that gets the job done!

Vorteile:

Pricing is one of the best things about DigitalOcean. You get really affordable options without sacrificing too much in terms of performance, which is a win-win.

Nachteile:

Support could use some improvement. When things go wrong, it sometimes takes a bit longer to get the help you need.

My personal experience using DigitalOcean

Kommentare: I had user friendly experience using it and i like how much products they provides be it domain services or hosting services

Vorteile:

DigitalOcean provides user friendly website and competitive pricing which i used to buy domains for my personal uses

Nachteile:

Their community support might not be best in the businesses or around the other alternatives

from good to perfect

Kommentare: Digital ocean was my first IaaS and it is so easy to start learning how it works, i have deploy 4 backend servers and i feel confortable when i think of creating more of them in digital ocean, so the only thing that is left is funtions (like AWS with lambda funtions)

Vorteile:

I love GUI, how easy it´s to deploy a react app with a droplet o a backend with nodejs

Nachteile:

I had some issues with my spaces and contacted customer service around 3 time and they didn´t give a solution

Great boxes, simple pricing!

Kommentare: Been pretty hands off, I like it. Transparent pricing, never an issue with uptime.

Vorteile:

Easy to set up a server and modify them. DigitalOcean integrates seamlessly with Forge which was great. Lots of support docs which helped me set up my own linux server from scratch!

Nachteile:

A tiny bit confusing if you don't know the terms.

Great cloud hosting for everyone

Kommentare: We have had a great experience with Digitalocean ever since we started using it. It is extremely easy to use and very fast.

Vorteile:

Digitalocean is so extremely easy to use. You can get a product deployed in under 10 minutes, with super fast build times.

Nachteile:

It is somewhat expensive, however the ease of use makes it very worth it.

A developer friendly provider for cloud services

Kommentare: My overall experience was really nice. It's a great option for developers who need to run their own virtual servers etc.

Vorteile:

I love how good their documentation is. They even provide guides for issues which are not directly related to their services.

Nachteile:

I'd like to see an option for a pay-as-you-go plan without any fixed costs.

Intuitive Tools for Creating Infrastructure

Kommentare: 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.

Vorteile:

- 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.

Nachteile:

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.

Affordable but has some problems

Kommentare: 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.

Vorteile:

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.

Nachteile:

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.

Simplicity without compromising features

Kommentare: I switched to Digital Ocean from AWS after a long and considered research phase. The problems I wanted to avoid were 1) unpredictable pricing, 2) vendor tie-in, 3) difficult to get performance without just paying more. With Digital Ocean, all of the above points were hit, and I feel totally control of my company's digital infrastructure.

Vorteile:

With Digital Ocean, you get exactly what you pay for. Unlike other cloud providers, if you pay for a server with X capacity, you get exactly that, without any secret charges or "token" based performance. The pricing is predictable and the decisions are made simple. On top of this, the web-based user interface is well thought out and allows you to organise your servers into teams and projects. Each team can have separate billing but it is all predictable.

Nachteile:

The web admin user interface is a little slow and clunky at times. It does the job, and is pleasant to look at, but seeing an animation of a shark swimming every time you click a button is common. I can't knock the functionality, but the way the web application has been built means that every action requires a loading animation, which can really get in the way of the task at hand.

Digital Ocean is really an ocean

Kommentare: It's awesome and hopefully will be awesome. It's IaaS service i loved the most.

Vorteile:

it's reliability is awesome and worls very awesome. Pricing also cheap. So we consider and refer to other.

Nachteile:

Support system should be empowered to best level as other are having advanced system for support to customers.

Why I love DigitalOcean

Kommentare: Easy, fast, and will not break the bank.

Vorteile:

Set up is a breeze even if I've only started working with Linux when I tried it.

Nachteile:

Basic Linux/server knowledge is required to effectively use their service which is common to VPS services.

Easy Application Deployment Cloud Service

Kommentare: Its a great value for money for those looking to kickstart their entrepreneurial journeys. Overall, its a great cloud service.

Vorteile:

Applications are easily deployed with a low cost.

Nachteile:

Everything was perfect from my experience and nothing that needs improvement.

Fast, Easy, and Reliable Hosting with DigitalOcean

Vorteile:

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.

Nachteile:

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.

DigitalOcean review

Kommentare: Very good and modern tool allowing quick web app development and deployment. Really good experience with integration.

Vorteile:

Gives us the possibility to quickly deploy the web app or server for super reasonable price before. The implementation is really easy

Nachteile:

The documentation is sporadic in some important technical details. This should be improved to speed up our development

Simplistic and Affordable Cloud Computing

Vorteile:

What I like about Digital Ocean is its easy-to-use User Interface. It is simple and intuitive, making it easy for users to get started with cloud hosting

Nachteile:

Overall it's a great alternative for Cloud Hosting solutions but even though it has a great User Interface it lacks a lot in feature sets when compared to other cloud providers.

Techie’s best choice

Kommentare: I am using digitalocean since 3 years I an extremely satisfied

Vorteile:

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

Nachteile:

The product is designed in such a way leaves no cons back

Made for developers, ready for production, powers my whole business

Kommentare: Being able to combine different resources the way I need gives me the maximum flexibility to offer the optimal solutions to my customers. Almost all important web services providers have almost impossible to understand pricing calculators - pretending that this extremely insane granulation will make you obtain the optimal cost effective solution. It may be true for a large organisation, but for small companies like mine, a simple and straight-forward pricing model like the one digitalocean has is more than enough and makes me not waste my precious programming hours.

Vorteile:

I have tried different VPS solutions, looking for a reliable, easy to use and cost effective solution for my web apps and websites. Finally I've ended up migrating almost all my work to Digitalocean, my being a developer who does not wish to waste too much time with sys admin issues. Everything comes handy and is easy to understand. A big plus for me, working mainly the EU market is that I can host my VPS's in the EU, so that I may comply to the GDPR requirements. I just love it.

Nachteile:

I really have no complaints. Everything works smoothly

My new go-to for all matters of hosting

Kommentare: Virtual server and machine hosting for multiple websites and databases

Vorteile:

DigitalOcean makes it incredibly simple to setup and manage virtual cloud servers for almost any size, scale and scope of project you have in mind. From one-off web pages to large databases, you can easily spin up and start developing without much interference, and the technical support is very strong.The pricing is also incredibly reasonable, and scales with usage.

Nachteile:

While they make it easy, it still requires a fair amount of technical knowledge to get acquainted with the setup and terminology used ('droplets', 'applets', etc.). There is also a need to stay organized, because if you manage a lot of different projects, it can be difficult to keep everything organized.

DigitalOcean is my favorite go-to hosting solution

Kommentare: I am overall extremely satisfied with DigitalOcean, but like every company - I think there are some core features they can (and should) improve.

Vorteile:

- They have an extremely clear pricing model - you always know what you're gonna be paying that month (no unexpected charges of $5k). - It's really simple to get setup and working - They allow for Floating IP's (for free, while being assigned to a droplet) and this allows you to really quickly reroute traffic to another service. - It has a very well documented and powerful API so you can automate repetitive tasks - They generally respond well to user feature requests on their portal.

Nachteile:

- It feels like snapshotting or creating a new server takes longer than it needs to. - You cannot download snapshots. - You cannot transfer services (like a droplet or ip) to another account or team.

Great platform for Kubernetes deployments

Vorteile:

Easy to use Kubernetes service, good security, good performance, auto-scaling features

Nachteile:

Kubernetes service still evolving which involves breaking changes at times, costs can grow quite large

Great cloud hosting provider

Kommentare: Use DigitalOcean to host my servers which run my own websites & web applications. Never had a problem, 99.999% uptime. Would highly recommend

Vorteile:

Fast, reliable, affordable servers with near instant provisioning & fast network connections. Hourly billing. Beautiful web UI/UX for managing services. Free DNS hosting

Nachteile:

Slightly more pricey than some competitors like Hetzner/Vultr