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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We use DigitalOcean for all of our cloud computing needs, including cloud instances, managing DNS records, floating IP address, Kubernetes instances, and load balancers. It is directly utilized mainly with engineers and developers and is used in combination with a selection of other SaaS to complete our development environments and backend. We also self-host some other developer tools and marketing tools on our DigitalOcean servers as well.
Pros
Pricing is very straightforward - DigitalOcean uses a simple monthly pricing model (charged per hour), where pricing for instances is structured in clear increments, $5, $10, $20, $40/month, etc...
Amazing UI - DigitalOcean has a very clear, intuitive UI. It takes mere seconds to create a cloud instance.
Super scalable - As long as you're not changing a disk/SSD size, all the components of a cloud instance are editable, and seamlessly integrate with other DigitalOcean products like their DNS records manager, load balancers, and floating IPs.
Cons
There is downtime somewhat more often than competing services - DigitalOcean is getting on top of this, but on average, every couple of months, there tends to be server maintenance that can disturb server function.
Limited products - DigitalOcean only recently introduced their Kubernetes product, which was offered by cloud computing competitors a long time before.
Limited regions - DigitalOcean has fewer regions, compared to AWS and Google Cloud Platform, but they are quickly scaling and introducing new data centers.
No GPUs - DigitalOcean does not offer cloud computing instances that have GPUs.
Likelihood to Recommend
DigitalOcean is wonderful for startups that are looking to quickly create a backend, API, or cloud computing infrastructure. Most of the products that DigitalOcean offers makes it really easy to set this up. For companies that require more complex or advanced cloud computing resources, like Computer Vision, AI, etc... DigitalOcean doesn't offer these specific services, so a different cloud computing service may be better suited for this purpose.
We are using DigitalOcean as the primary host for a number of different small client projects. We had previously tried alternative hosts such as AWS however, they were viewed as over complicated for our use case. Droplet hours are cheaper compared to many of their competitors such as Heroku Dynos.
Pros
Simple UX makes it very easy to use and understand
Billed hourly so no need to commit to a full month of billing
Fast provisioning on SSDs
Cons
As of now no DDOS protection functionality
Likelihood to Recommend
Well Suited:
Prototyping and MVP demos due to its simplicity and ease of use
Fast cloud server provisioning allows you to quickly spin up new instances
Cheap servers billed hourly allows you to scale up and down to match server load and maintain availability
Not Well Suited:
No DDOS protection which would be a nice feature to have
VU
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (11-50 employees)
[It's being used] organization-wide. It allows us to have servers in various regions as needed. It offers excellent flexibility in terms of capacity. The ability to spin up a new server with specified storage and memory requirements is amazing and changed how we manage our infrastructure.
The various regions available to DigitalOcean customers is very nice for targeting specific geographical areas. Launching a service for the Asian market? Spin up a server in Indonesia, instead of New York like you'd do for US users.
Pros
Various geographical regions to run a VPS in.
Many pre-built images like WordPress, GitLab, and Ghost.
Local networking making it easy to communicate between your VPSs.
Cons
Backups that are always on and free would be sweet.
Better integration with Docker Cloud.
Likelihood to Recommend
You need to be flexible in your server infrastructure. If you're not sure what you need, DigitalOcean is a great option. If your needs change rapidly, DigitalOcean is a great option. Less appropriate if you need to have physical control over servers, DigitalOcean is not a colocation facility and simply provides virtual servers on their hardware.
We use digitalocean as a way to prototype infrastructure code in a way that is fundamentally different from Amazon Web Services. DigitalOcean's product features are more minimal and thus let us be sure we aren't relying on proprietary or non-standard features of AWS. In the past, I've deployed personal projects to DigitalOcean. And at a previous employer, we used DigitalOcean as our primary deployment target.
Pros
A simple feature set that is easy to get started with.
Plenty of integrations with userland tools such as CLIs, configuration management, and infrastructure as code.
Offers a clear pricing model that is easy to reason about. Other providers are less clear with how pricing will work in practice.
Their community outreach is fantastic including a wealth of tutorials and articles.
One-click installers for popular technologies are a really easy way to test out interesting technologies.
Cons
Their feature set is more focused than other providers like AWS, GCE, or Azure.
They charge a relatively high amount for image backups.
In years past, I've noticed droplets getting into a stuck state periodically. I'm not sure how much of a problem this is today.
Lack of software defined networking is a big minus. Once you are used to providers which offer this, it is tough to go back.
Likelihood to Recommend
When you need to get something deployed quickly, DigitalOcean can be one of the fastest routes if you can't use a PaaS and have requirements that necessitate a VPS.
I would avoid DigitalOcean if you don't need a full-blown IaaS and can use something like Heroku to get your app out the door quickly. I would also use a more advanced provider like AWS if you need features beyond DigitalOcean's catalog.
We use DigitalOcean to host a variety of different web products, which we build for clients. It's used by essentially our whole team, and solves the problem of allowing easy to access, quick set up VPS availability. Before DigitalOcean, we were primarily using Heroku and other cloud container services. This hosting strategy got expensive, and offered less powerful resources than DigitalOcean.
Once we moved, we were able to drop hosting bills for a couple of clients from ~$500+/month, to ~$20-30/month. We also had the flexibility and power of having a full Linux VPS, which was more customizable and could be fine tuned to customer needs better.
Pros
It's fast. Getting a VPS up and running for the first time takes only a few minutes.
It's affordable. You get SSD powered boxes for as little as $5/month.
Their support and educational resources are unmatched. They have the best tutorials and guides in the industry.
Cons
As the product becomes more complex, setup becomes a bit less clear and you need to understand all of the options available to you.
There are some constraints on hard drive space, RAM, and server location, that once set for the first time, are hard to change later. This should be more clear, or more flexibility should be given.
Unless this has changed recently, there are no team accounts. A single user/password is used for the account. It would be nice to delegate some instances to team members, who would have their own login credentials. So projects could be shared more easily.
Likelihood to Recommend
It's great for startups that want a no-nonsense, simple solution. It's also great for young developers just getting started, as a good amount of value is provided at very little cost. Their flexibility, availability, and different pricing tiers also make Digital Ocean a great product for development teams of all size, as they can handle nearly any scale necessary.
