DigitalOcean Reviews & Insights

Score8.7 out of 10

129 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for DigitalOcean are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Developer-friendly tools and APIs: Users have expressed their appreciation for the developer-friendly tools and APIs provided by DigitalOcean, finding them useful and conducive to efficient development processes. Several reviewers have stated that these tools have made it easier for them to develop and manage their cloud resources effectively.

Great documentation: The comprehensive and well-structured documentation offered by DigitalOcean has been highly praised by users. Many reviewers have found the documentation to be helpful, particularly when setting up various configurations and services. They have highlighted its wide coverage of topics as a valuable resource for guidance.

Active and helpful community: The active and supportive community of DigitalOcean has garnered positive feedback from users. They have commended the community's responsiveness in providing assistance whenever needed. Reviewers also appreciate the availability of official help articles and public forums, which contribute to their positive experience with the platform.

Reviews

36 Reviews

Easy to use and cost effective cloud service provider for application developers and startups

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

May 9, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In my organization, DigitalOcean is primarily used to create droplets and databases. DigitalOcean is an excellent choice for early startups as they can deploy their infrastructure at lower cost compared to the relatively bigger cloud providers. We have also integrated our SaaS application as a DigitalOcean marketplace Add-On. This helps our application business by serving as a channel for acquiring new customers.

Pros

Cost effective
Easy to use
Easy to integrate
Great technical support

Cons

Fine grained role based access control
AI chatbot
Ability to easily generate and get spaces credentials like personal access token using an OAuth application so as to build easy to use applications for our end users

Likelihood to Recommend

As DigitalOcean is cost effective, it is an excellent choice for individual application developers and / or small teams working in early startups to deploy their infrastructure in the cloud. It is also easy to host a SaaS application on DigitalOcean marketplace. If fine grained role based access control is a must then you are better off going with the bigger cloud providers such as AWS, Google Cloud.

Vinaya Kumar B

Engineering Lead in Engineering at Kloudle (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Verified on LinkedIn

Just perfect Very happy

Rating: 10 out of 10

May 2, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use DigitalOcean since at least 10 years for our needs of servers and web servers, it's definitely very handy and helpful, as it is possible just to have a server for few minutes and delete it, or test the various type of installations (OS), capacity or hard disk (SSD). It's very flexible and extremly competitive at the level of the prices compared with other datacenter... and one of the must is that you can select the datacenter you prefer geogrphically, choosing which country you prefer and that has the best bandwith to your customers.

Pros

Pricing
Geographical Datacenter
Various OS available
Possibility to setup a server in seconds and also remove it as quickly.

Cons

I really find out that the service is perfect
keeping some common older OS could be helpful for specific installation
VoIP PABX such as Trixbox/Asterisk could be good

Likelihood to Recommend

Just possible to do what you need and helpful for all daily needs. We installed our web server with mutiple domains with a pacjegs perfectly adapted to the OS available. If we had some issues, the server was possible to delete and start again, really handy as the time to setup is very quick, and easy/handy via the DigitalOcean GUI.

Jan Saggiori

Director in Research & Development at SSSLLC (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

25 years of experience

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Infrastructure made it simple.

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

October 10, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use DigitalOcean to host client websites, run marketing tools, and scale our services efficiently. Also, Droplets allows me to deploy reliable servers quickly, and managed databases help organize and store all of our campaign data. I recently started using Spaces to store media assets and backups of all the media generated for our clients. With DigitalOcean’s straightforward pricing, I can easily manage costs while delivering high-quality digital solutions to our clients.

Pros

We are storing all media assets for our clients.
Manage databases to generate reports and statistics for our campaigns.
Really simple to deploy Droplets.

Cons

It's a little bit better control panel, but maybe I'm just picky.
There are more options on GPU droplets, maybe AMD ones.
Better backup prices.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Fernando Orozco

CTO at Elevo | BBBO Group (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

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DigitalOcean: move forward fast

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

May 7, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are building a MVP of a mobile application for personal trainers. We are using DigitalOcean Droplets as a runtime environment for our API. We also use Spaces buckets to store and serve via CDN user provided data.

Pros

Ease of use and ease of configuration
Competitive pricing
Good documentation and knowledge base

Cons

Container registry could have a larger free tier (500mb is almost nothing)
We lack Secrets Manager service

Likelihood to Recommend

DigitalOcean is perfect when you need to move forward fast and you don’t want to waste time on struggling with extensive configurations.

Krzysztof Falcman

Lead Backend Engineer in Engineering at ForActive (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

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Best Affordable and Inexpensive Virtual Servers

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

June 28, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

DigitalOcean is a powerful tool so as to control the virtual server in the cloud. It's widely used in our organization so that the servers can be allocated in multiple regions as per our needs. It's a highly scalable and flexible tool to host websites and web apps that allows us to use our own servers as well. The performance is great and the server cost is inexpensive. The user can eventually have full control over the machine with its user friendly interface.

Pros

Reporting and support.
Ease of use.
Flexibility and scalability.
Less cost involved as compared to other products which makes it an affordable product.
Upgrading of hardware is also quite easy and doesn't require much effort.

Cons

Customer support could be improved.
Lack of CDN.
Documentation is poor.

Likelihood to Recommend

DigitalOcean is a powerful tool with respect to the services and pricing that it offers. It is easier than other products and also provides servers that are inexpensive with great performance. DigitalOcean also offers additional add-ons such as additional IP addresses, scheduling of backups, etc. One of the best advantages is that it is efficient and is open source. Although, it is suited for a firm that is looking to cut down cost. Also, it is not suited for an organization where the dev/platform/DBA team is less experienced.

Verified User

Consultant in Finance and Accounting (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

One of the best dedicated server platforms!

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

April 30, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

DigitalOcean is used to host our apps and website. Before using it, we were using share-hosting and were having issues with website speed and capacity at peak times. Our website often crashed for too many people at the same time on it, so we decided to change to dedicated servers and ended up choosing DigitalOcean.

Pros

Scalable hosting
Price is really good compared to competition
Customer support is really efficient and fast to reply

Cons

The console is not really efficient and stable
Need to pay for backup droplets

Likelihood to Recommend

If you are looking for a reliable platform to host your website and apps, DigitalOcean is one of the best out there. Since it's a pay-per-use and scalable platform, you will never have problems with having too many customers on your website at the same time. Since it's a dedicated servers platform, you need high volume to justify using it compared to shared servers.

Antoine St-Pierre

Digital Automation Manager in Marketing at Techo-Bloc (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

DigitalOcean for the win

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

April 30, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using DigitalOcean for storing our statics website and WordPress websites. With DigitalOcean we were able to migrate from AWS and unlock [an] easier, cheaper cloud platform. With DigitalOcean we are able to [set up] a scalable server easily and as [quickly] as possible[.]

Pros

Prices
Easy to use
UI

Cons

IAM needs improvements
CDN

Likelihood to Recommend

DigitalOcean is suitable if you'd like to have a scalable server for cheaper prices than the competition and with a quick and easy setup process. If you otherwise prefer a server [that] is highly [customizable] then it's not suitable for you.

Marco Carnevali

VP Products in Engineering at Inkstinct (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Verified on LinkedIn

If DigitalOcean is good enough for Beyonce it's good enough for you.

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

October 19, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it to host a couple of websites, APIs, and apps for our organization.

Pros

Easy to set up.
Extremely affordable.
Upgrade hardware on the fly.

Cons

None I can think of. I have had multiple hosts and none have stacked up to the flexibility and ease of use.

Likelihood to Recommend

DigitalOcean is well suited if you need to be able to create a server that scales and you want full control/responsibility of your tech stack. We recommend using some kind of serverless solution if you are smaller and don't want the management overhead.

Bobby Johnson

Co-Founder / Full Stack Dev in Corporate at Madness Labs (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

6 years of experience

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DigitalOcean, great community, great features and startup friendly

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

October 16, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We've used DigitalOcean for running microservices. It's only used by our development team and isn't often used by other departments. It isn't our primary hosting service (we use AWS/Heroku) but I've used it both at work and on personal projects to quickly and cheaply launch prototypes. DigitalOcean is better for people who are a little more technical but it has some nice templated hosting solutions (e.g. WordPress) that less technical members of the team can use.

Pros

DigitalOcean provides some of the best cost-to-value services available
The DigitalOcean cloud console is very intuitive and easy to navigate
DigitalOcean has great support for Docker and other dev ops tools like Terraform.
DigitalOcean iterates quickly and provides cutting edge features for organizations that want to keep up with the latest and greatest dev ops tooling
DigitalOcean has a great developer community and numerous support docs/tutorials

Cons

Although I've never had issues with droplets, DigitalOcean occasionally has service outages in their deployment services.
It would be nice if DigitalOcean provided a means to cap egress billing (e.g. lock out an instance that is unintentionally ramping up a large bill)
I like that DigitalOcean spaces are compatible with S3 but it would be nice if they scaled in terms of space and price in similar fashion
Getting responses from DigitalOcean support can be slow and might not be adequate without an additional support plan

Likelihood to Recommend

Scenarios where DigitalOcean is well suited:
- I would recommend DigitalOcean for any startup looking to get up and running quickly, but concerned about scalability and infrastructure costs
- DigitalOcean is also a powerful tool for running microservices; it can be useful for prototyping or quickly launching pre-configured services

Scenarios where DigitalOcean is less appropriate:
- DigitalOcean would be less appropriate for companies with limited devops experience in their teams (you need to be more on top of your infrastructure and may not get the automated infrastructure updates that you would from something like AWS).

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

DigitalOcean - Great pricing with enterprise grade solutions and value

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

September 17, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used DigitalOcean (DO) to support several VMs used in our stack. One VM was used for the Database, another for the Worker, one for the Redis instance, and lastly, we used one for our primary web app. Highly recommend using DO. Super simple to use, it offers plenty of flexibility around snapshots, resizing, and backups too!

Pros

Great upgrade and resizing options
New monitoring services work very well
Great pricing

Cons

The DBaaS options are too expensive

Likelihood to Recommend

Great pricing, tons of regions, just an all around perfect solution for startups and larger software companies.

Verified User

C-Level Executive in Engineering (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

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DigitalOcean, great community, great features and startup friendly

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

October 16, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

DigitalOcean provides some of the best cost-to-value services available
The DigitalOcean cloud console is very intuitive and easy to navigate
DigitalOcean has great support for Docker and other dev ops tools like Terraform.
DigitalOcean iterates quickly and provides cutting edge features for organizations that want to keep up with the latest and greatest dev ops tooling
DigitalOcean has a great developer community and numerous support docs/tutorials

Cons

Although I've never had issues with droplets, DigitalOcean occasionally has service outages in their deployment services.
It would be nice if DigitalOcean provided a means to cap egress billing (e.g. lock out an instance that is unintentionally ramping up a large bill)
I like that DigitalOcean spaces are compatible with S3 but it would be nice if they scaled in terms of space and price in similar fashion
Getting responses from DigitalOcean support can be slow and might not be adequate without an additional support plan

Likelihood to Recommend

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience