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Rating: 8 out of 10
Score
8 out of 10

Reviews

2 Reviews

Hosting at a cheap cost

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used the DigitalOcean platform to host our SCIM bridge serverless hosting for another security product. The security product itself had limitation on providing the user automation features via SCIM and hence required a virtual appliance to be the bridge before SCIM can be enabled. We had selected DigitalOcean because of the easy setup and costing over other hosting provider.

Pros

  • Hosting of serverless application
  • Hosting of load balancer
  • Hosting of virtual appliances

Cons

  • None

Likelihood to Recommend

It can help you to host your virtual appliance or serverless application at very low cost. DigitalOcean marketplace also helps you to deploy the serverless app or virtual appliance effortlessly. It is suitable for small-scale deployment and the process to set up an account and rolling out your app via the marketplace is easy and cheap.

VU
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (501-1000 employees)
Vetted Review
DigitalOcean App Platform
1 year of experience

Nanobox, Focus on code, not operations.

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Nanobox to deploy our entire server side resources to a chosen cloud. It helps us remove any need for an operations person. With a click of a button we deploy the entire system - a NodeJS server, a NodeJS queue manager, database, static sites and web applications.

To a certain extent, we do not need to deal with many operational needs, SSL, code delivery, logging, load balancing, scaling, networking, etc...

Pros

  • Relatively easy setup. One file named "boxfile.xml" controls all relevant services including there communication ports, routes and build steps.
  • Scaling is easy - you can put everything on one machine, split certain services to dedicated machines and scale services to multiple machines. best of all this can be done at any time with almost zero down time.
  • I have not used this yet, but for a few hundred dollars a month you can get dedicated operational services to help you make your setup even easier and ensure your system is operational.

Cons

  • The company has not been very communicative as of lately. Not much news, no apparent work on missing features.
  • Some components are incomplete as far as some critical features. For example, I use RethinkDB as my database and it's missing critical features like backup and clustering, so It is unusable and they should have made that clear from the get go.
  • The pricing on the support plan is vague. I do have the feeling it is actually well worth the money, but it's hard to form a decisions based without more predictable specific.
  • Seems to me like the platform's future is unclear.

Likelihood to Recommend

I would only get into it if I where willing to pay for the support plan and getting some assurances from the team as to where they are headed. The platform itself is great and can save you a ton of hard work and money. but it's hard to be confidant in it's sustainability.

SF
Sagiv Frankel
Co-Founder in Engineering at LoroTalk (1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
DigitalOcean App Platform
2 years of experience
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