What is DigitalOcean?
DigitalOcean helps you create, automate, and manage a robust infrastructure with features like API, Floating IPs, Shared Private Networking, and Team Accounts.
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86 Likeliness to Recommend
100 Plan to Renew
88 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
Emotional Footprint Overview
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+87 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love DigitalOcean?
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Client Friendly Policies
- Helps Innovate
- Altruistic
How to read the Emotional Footprint
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Feature Ratings
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Load Balancing
Data Migration
Access Management
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Capacity Management
Regulatory Compliance
Encryption and Decryption Support
Systems Performance Management
SLA Management
Workflow Management
Vendor Capability Ratings
Business Value Created
Usability and Intuitiveness
Quality of Features
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Ease of Implementation
Ease of IT Administration
Ease of Customization
Breadth of Features
Ease of Data Integration
Vendor Support
Availability and Quality of Training
DigitalOcean Reviews
- Role: C-Level
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted May 2022
Excellent hosting solution
Likeliness to Recommend
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
Cons
- Charges for Enhancements
Genesis R.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Other
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Mar 2022
The future of endless possibilities
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates DigitalOcean from other similar products?
Managing work with the help of Kubernetes Clusters was never so easy but all the credit goes to DigitalOcean. Our company decided to use the services from them once we saw a rapid increase in company's growth, more work and more coworkers as well. Management of work was never this simple.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
They do not lack anything. It’s all good, you get almost all services and features that other competitors are providing on a much less amount. Their amazing customer service surely deserves a credit here because anytime you reach them they take care of the problem by all means.
What do you dislike most about this product?
There are some features that might not catch up to the expectations if you have used their rival or competitors. However, they are getting there with every passing day. There is nothing much that I disliked while using it.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
They are great! They are hardworking, they put themselves in customers' shoes, try to sort your issues out and have almost all advanced features by now at a very reasonable price. The quality is very good and you get what you really want at the end of the day so why not go for something that is actually worth the shot.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Trustworthy
- Unique Features
Jonathan H.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Entertainment
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Feb 2022
Very reliable VPS experience
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates DigitalOcean from other similar products?
What differentiates DigitalOcean from other VPS providers, for me, is it having no nonsense. Compared with Amazon AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure, it is very easy to spin up a VPS with a standard Linux distribution, without the overhead and time spent on a seemingly stupendous amount of bureaucracy in the form of access profiels and other APIs required just to get a virtual machine started. Additionally, DigitalOcean has so many community written guides on a multitude of subjects, making it a pleasure to resolve issues. The guides are useful even for non-DigitalOcean users.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
My favourite aspect of DigitalOcean is that the pricing is clear and upfront. We pay monthly for our VPS based on the RAM, Disk and CPU. Bandwidth allowance is included and clearly stated, and overage prices clearly set. This is in stark contrast to providers like Amazon AWS who you are seemingly signing a blank cheque to.
What do you dislike most about this product?
What I dislike most about DigitalOcean is that in my experience, the object storage service is unreliable and slow and not fit for purpose. Instead we use the volume storage service, which has proved to be even faster than the system SSD storage, and perfectly reliable.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
DigitalOcean offer free trial credit, so for someone considering this product I would recommend taking advantage of this offer and spinning up test virtual machines, and exploring the features that they have to see if it is a good fit for your organisation.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Enables Productivity
- Efficient Service
Cons
- Leverages Incumbent Status
