DigitalOcean Droplets vs. UpCloud

DigitalOcean Droplets

UpCloud

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
UpCloud	Score 8.1 out of 10	N/A	UpCloud is a global cloud hosting company offering cloud servers on an hourly billed infrastructure-as-a-service. Their IaaS services include MaxIOPS block storage, their Simple backup service, SDN services, and resource isolation.	$0.09 per month per GB

Pricing

DigitalOcean Droplets

UpCloud

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

Private Cloud Storage: €0.085
per month per GB
Block Storage - Standard: €0.085
per month
Block Storage - MaxIOPS: €0.220
per month
SDN Private Networks - Floating IP address: €3.15
per month
Private Cloud Hosts -Standard Nodes: €2,499
per month
Cloud Servers - General Purpose: Starting from €7
per month
GPU Servers: Starting from €1.111
per hour
Cloud Servers - High CPU: Starting from €130
per month
Cloud Servers - Developer: Starting from €3
per month
Cloud Servers - High Memory: Starting from €40
per month
Cloud Servers - Cloud Native: Starting from €12
per month
Relational Databases - 1 Node: Starting from €30
per month
Managed Object Storage: starting from €5
per month 250GB

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
DigitalOcean Droplets	UpCloud
Free Trial
No	Yes
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.

Exact prices depend on memory and CPU demands.

More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	DigitalOcean Droplets	UpCloud

Features

DigitalOcean Droplets

UpCloud

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Product A and Product B
	DigitalOcean Droplets - Ratings	UpCloud 6.0 Ratings 29% below category average
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime	00 Ratings	9.10 Ratings
Dynamic scaling	00 Ratings	7.30 Ratings
Elastic load balancing	00 Ratings	4.50 Ratings
Pre-configured templates	00 Ratings	2.70 Ratings
Monitoring tools	00 Ratings	6.40 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images	00 Ratings	4.50 Ratings
Operating system support	00 Ratings	8.20 Ratings
Security controls	00 Ratings	5.50 Ratings
Automation	00 Ratings	5.50 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	DigitalOcean Droplets	UpCloud
Small Businesses	Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Score 8.9 out of 10	DigitalOcean Droplets Score 8.7 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	SAP on IBM Cloud Score 9.5 out of 10	SAP on IBM Cloud Score 9.5 out of 10
Enterprises	SAP on IBM Cloud Score 9.5 out of 10	SAP on IBM Cloud Score 9.5 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	DigitalOcean Droplets	UpCloud
Likelihood to Recommend	9.9 (0 ratings)	5.5 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	DigitalOcean Droplets	UpCloud
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're looking for a cost-effective solution then this is a good choice, be sure to keep on top of your balance! The 100% uptime is also a nice addition, although not unique in a cloud hosting service. 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	Pricing Ease of use - super easy to manage existing servers and deploy new ones Great customer service 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	The billing reports are quite hard to read, could be simplified A control panel function would be useful The re-billing process could be better, not so cut throat if you miss a payment! Incentivized Verified User Anonymous 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 trialed UpCloud to see if it would be better than DigitalOcean but for our needs, it was not. On DigitalOcean once a droplet is created, almost no thought needs to go into maintenance, outages, or other reliability-based issues. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous 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	The low cost means you don't really need to worry about pricing To us as a business it was not as useful as DigitalOcean Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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