DigitalOcean Droplets vs. Google Cloud Persistent Disk

DigitalOcean Droplets

Google Cloud Persistent Disk

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
DigitalOcean Droplets	Score 8.7 out of 10	N/A	DigitalOcean's Droplets is designed to help the user spin up a virtual machine in just 55 seconds. Standard, General Purpose, CPU-Optimized, or Memory-Optimized configurations provide flexibility to build, test, and grow an app from startup to scale.	$4 per month
Google Cloud Persistent Disk	Score 7.4 out of 10	N/A	Google's Persistent Disk service on Google Cloud is designed to present reliable, high-performance block storage for virtual machine instances.	N/A

Pricing

DigitalOcean Droplets

Google Cloud Persistent Disk

Editions & Modules

Basic: $4
per month
CPU-Optimized: $42
per month
General Purpose: $63
per month
Memory-Optimized: $84
per month
Storage-Optimized: $131
per month

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
DigitalOcean Droplets	Google Cloud Persistent Disk
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

Pricing for DigitalOcean Droplets varies depending on the size of the virtual environment and the associated data needs.

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Community Pulse
	DigitalOcean Droplets	Google Cloud Persistent Disk

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	DigitalOcean Droplets	Google Cloud Persistent Disk
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User Ratings
	DigitalOcean Droplets	Google Cloud Persistent Disk
Likelihood to Recommend	9.9 (0 ratings)	9.7 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	DigitalOcean Droplets	Google Cloud Persistent Disk
Likelihood to Recommend	There are some other platforms that compete with DigitalOcean Droplets that have more performant servers for a very minimal price decrease. However, DigitalOcean's servers still have great performance, and the experience is better when you consider the developer console, managed options, and uptime that DigitalOcean offers. DigitalOcean is the better all-around package. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	If you are shopping for a virtual business storage software, Google Cloud Persistent Disk offers the best features more so when it comes to ease of data access, data security, fast data transfers, and scalability. It is ideal for all businesses regardless of the industry. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Simplicity to scale services--the interface is very quick and effective to use Reliability--this is key for us, as any downtime effects our reputation Keeps the costs down--hosting our own equivalent infrastructure would cost a lot more Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Easy to provision Easy to scale Easy at administer Easy pricing model Geographically located Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	In terms of an availability zone, they have limitations not available in most of the geographical locations. No live support is available which can cause problem if you have outage. Number of service is quite limited. Incentivized Anuj Rai Senior Associate Technology Read full review	I have not experienced any problems using Google Cloud Persistent Disk. Incentivized JW Janet Wagece CITO (Chief Information Technology Officer) Read full review
Usability	Other platforms dashboard console is more difficult to use. DigitalOcean's dashboard is clean, simple, and straightforward Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	DigitalOcean Droplets has more advanced options and the devs at our team are extremely geeky and they prefer to have full control on the server via SSH rather than cPanel. Incentivized LA Laila Abouizza Backend Developer Read full review	We are using many Google products and therefore Google Cloud Persistent Disk was our best choice. It is scalable and very secure. Incentivized JW Janet Wagece CITO (Chief Information Technology Officer) Read full review
Return on Investment	Digital Ocean has been great helping us move web apps to the cloud Digital Ocean has been really helpful when hiring contractors The interface could use some work, but overall its not terrible Incentivized Tom Blazek IT Manager Read full review	No need to worry about the data we are stored in the system Durabla system Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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