DigitalOcean Reviews

The user interface is really easy to use, with a few clicks it allows you to create a droplet across the globe. Also, it is easy to manage access controls and overall network/firewall rules. They provide affordable S3 like data storage solution called "Spaces". If you are switching from Amazon S3, the best thing about Spaces is it compatible with official S3 libraries which eliminates the implementation process as you can use the same infrastructure for Spaces too.

They should revise Spaces product page/documentation. I had to reach customer support to verify that spaces is just a subscription service so it comes with unlimited buckets. This information is not provided on their product page. Also, their customer service is really hard to reach, and they are not helpful. The worst thing about their service is their automated bots. They can lock your account without a valid reason, and it really hard to convince them to undo it.

nothing, nothing at all! I didnt like anyting at all.

Stay away at all costs! You will regret it!

The most amazingly refreshing platform to use in a long time, especially for back-end work. We'd switched from AWS, which was incredibly cumbersome to administer.

We sometimes have had to migrate between data centers because the machines we wanted in the data center in which we already had nodes didn't have the same node available for scaling.

The awesome user interface of the product is a killing feature, ages ahead of competition.

I love how simple and efficient everything is, from deploying a new droplet to asking for support.

They offer an excellent service at very low cost.

They helped me starting my business, teaching me with their free tutorials how to build and manage servers.

I would love to see investments on a Brazilian datacenter. This is the only missing feature for me.

Very easy to setup, all the options that I need are available, can start working in minutes.

I would like more low-cost alternatives.

Along with great guides, DO has provided me and my clients with a growing list of tools to be more productive.

The learning curve was steep when I started using DO several years ago. I imagine those with no experience in this area would struggle but the guides really helped.

DigitalOcean provides an inexpensive and easy-to-manage cloud platform that offers reliable services that is very well-designed. The design language across the platform is clean and modern. It literally takes minutes to spin a server get to work.

The service is heavily developer focused so non-developers (Business users) to use the system without a fair bit of learning curve. This is a not necessarily a disadvantage but calling out so buyers make informed decisions.

Things that I like about DigitalOcean are
1) You get power of cloud computing at some discount compared to Amazon and Google.
2) Nice and intuitive dashboard.
3) You can provision new servers in around 60 seconds.
4) Developer friendly.
5) Ability to collaborate with teams.
6) Predictable pricing.
7) Scale up as you grow.
8) Can enable IPv6 for the server.
9) Get to know various monitoring metrics like CPU and RAM consumption, disk usage, bandwidth consumption in the dashboard at a minimal interval of 5 minutes. You can see these usage for last 14 days.
10) Take backups and snapshots incase of anything goes wrong.
11) Easy to configure Firewall.
12) Can increase disk space easily by adding Block Storage to the droplets.
13) DigitalOceans Spaces can be used to offload static files for as low as $5 for 1TB CDN bandwidth and reduce load on server.
14) DigitalOcean has one of the best knowledge base and how to articles to get you started or get out if you are stuck.
15) Create alerts to receive email notification
16) Get email notification when monthly spending reaches your defined threshold.

Things that I don't like about DigitalOcean are
1) You have to turn off the droplet to scale up or scale down.
2) Information regarding DDoS attacks on droplets should also me made available in the control panel.
3) Backups and Snapshots costs extra and are pricy.
4) Does not accept prepaid cards for payments.

+Affordable pricings.
+Deployments are super fast and easy.
+Support Microservices architecture
+DNS management is very convenient.
+Droplets backups can be configured for small amount.

+ I/O problems in smaller droplets.
+ Network security cannot be implemented to the deeper level.
+ Limitation on custom images (ex. Cannot have more than 100GB image, cannot assign floating IP)

This was my introduction to transitioning from webhosts like Bluehost and HostGator (which could be super expensive and difficult to manage). DigitalOcean provides me with total control. There is a much hard initial learning curve, but their documentation is incredibly thorough! The process of getting my sites set up really helped me to become empowered as a web designer.

Hard initial learning curve if you do not have a background in hosting your own web-based products or sites.

DigitalOcean is a great platform for many developers and cloud computing enthusiasts as they provide up to date hardware for their systems. they have a robust network and greater availability regions and have great customer support that will help you anytime. DigitalOcean's market presence is quite high. the most interesting thing that I found was they have very low latency for VPN uses in Droplet.

The only thing that is hated about it is that I was not able to successfully use it as a VPN server because most of their IPs are flagged as VPN server even though they serve different purposes in Online content streaming platforms like Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Hulu. It, not Digitalocean's fault because as their service for VPN servers are so famous that content providers blocked them all. but overall A+.