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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    DigitalOcean

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/ADigitalOcean is an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform from the company of the same name headquartered in New York. It is known for its support of managed Kubernetes clusters and “droplets” feature.

    $5

    Starting Price Per Month

    IONOS Cloud

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AIONOS Cloud is the company's suite of IaaS products for businesses. These IaaS products include a compute engine, storage and backup, network services (e.g. load balancing), managed Kubernetes cloud-based data center monitoring, DBaaS services (MySQL, Oracle Databases, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis), as well as dedicated servers.

    $0.01

    per hour

    Pricing
    DigitalOceanIONOS Cloud
    Editions & Modules
    1GB-16GB
    $5.00
    Starting Price Per Month
    8GB-160GB
    $60.00
    Starting Price Per Month
    1 GB RAM
    $0.0071
    per hour
    Reserved IP Address
    $6
    per 30 days
    1 Core (AMD & Intel® Core™)
    from$0.0240
    per hour
    1 GB Storage (options between HDD & SSD)
    from$0.0533
    per 30 days
    1 GB Traffic (free incoming & internal traffic)
    from$0.0360
    per GB
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    DigitalOceanIONOS Cloud
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details
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    Community Pulse
    DigitalOceanIONOS Cloud
    Considered Both Products
    DigitalOcean
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    IONOS, Inc
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    10 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    10 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    10 Answers
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    Features
    DigitalOceanIONOS Cloud
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of DigitalOcean and IONOS Cloud
    Feature
    DigitalOcean
    8.3
    33 Ratings
    3% above category average
    IONOS Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime9.228 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling9.029 Ratings00 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing7.021 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates10.027 Ratings00 Ratings
    Monitoring tools10.032 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images7.531 Ratings00 Ratings
    Operating system support8.331 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security controls9.029 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automation5.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    User Ratings
    DigitalOceanIONOS Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.2
    (33 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.8
    (9 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    DigitalOceanIONOS Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    DigitalOcean
    DigitalOcean is perfect for hosting client websites, running marketing tools, and managing media storage with Spaces and CDN. The use of Droplets to quickly launch landing pages or WordPress sites for campaigns is a Godsend. It’s great for fast, cheap, and scalable solutions. But for complex microservices or projects needing strict compliance (like HIPAA), DigitalOcean may not always be the best fit, but that depends heavily on your project.
    Incentivized
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    IONOS, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Pros
    DigitalOcean
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    IONOS, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Cons
    DigitalOcean
    • Some products/services available on other Cloud providers aren't available, but they seem to be catching up as they add new products like Managed SQL DBs.
    • While they have FreeBSD droplets (VMs), support for *BSD OSs is limited. I.e. the new monitoring agent only works on Linux.
    • There are no regions available on South America.
    • They don't seem to offer enterprise-level products, even basic ones as Windows Server, MS SQL Server, Oracle products, etc.
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    IONOS, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Likelihood to Renew
    DigitalOcean
    I've been very happy with it for my purposes and I plan to continue to use DigitalOcean for the foreseeable future!
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    IONOS, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    DigitalOcean
    I honestly can't think of an easier way to set up and maintain your own server. Being able to set up a server in minutes and have fully control is awesome. The UX is incredibly intuitive for first-time users as well so there's no reason to be intimidated when it comes to giving DigitalOcean a shot.
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    IONOS, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Reliability and Availability
    DigitalOcean
    Have not found a single second of down time myself. Superior availability.
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    IONOS, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    DigitalOcean
    Very quick response and high performance, you have to fine tune configurations on your machines though.
    Incentivized
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    IONOS, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    DigitalOcean
    They have always been fast, and the process has been straight-forward. I haven't had to use it enough to be frustrated with it, to be honest, and when I have an issue they fix it. As with all support, I wish it felt more human, but they are doing aces.
    Incentivized
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    IONOS, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    DigitalOcean
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    IONOS, Inc
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    Scalability
    DigitalOcean
    Great scalability, you can start with small plans and move up to premium features at a very good price.
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    IONOS, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    DigitalOcean
    • Positive - Elastic computer instances make it possible to pay for only for what you need.
    • Positive - Competitive pricing - some of the products that DigitalOcean offers are much cheaper than those offered by competitors.
    • Negative - Having to go to other cloud computing platforms for more specific, advanced services like Computer Vision optimized services, GPU cloud compute instances, etc...
    Incentivized
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    IONOS, Inc
    No answers on this topic
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