DigitalOcean Review

PROS: Pricing model is very much predictable. UI is easy to get around in. Making Droplets is easy. Plenty of pre-defined OS configurations to use.

CONS: I was hoping there would be some kind of an upgrade. By that would mean adding or removing memory or disk space as needed. This is better than going for a plan upgrade where a bunch of other features won't be utilized at all. An example of would additional bandwidth and etc...

PROS: Documentation seen on the DigitalOcean site very extensive. It's composed exceptionally well. I've been using it on a regular basis for projects. Pricing options are reasonable too.

CONS: Based on my limited knowledge on Virtual Private Hosting, there are certain limits to its hosting quality. It's not as good compared to other third party VPS. At the moment, I can't quite pinpoint which ones they are.

PROS: The docker image tool is amazing and you can start using it immediately, also the pre-baked VM images are great. You can easily use the wordpress image so you can run a blog in a few minutes. The documentation for installing 3rd party services is very useful. Digital Ocean provides great feature for IPV6 support, this is something that is lacking in other providers.

CONS: For my production app I need real virtual private network also the lack of storage can be a problem sometimes. We cannot easily run the database because we cannot add storage after we create the instance.

PROS: I don’t think you can find great product with full VPS for $5/mo. If you need to install and configure everything the way you want having a product that offers you full VPS is the most powerful thing in the world. I believe you need to have some expertise and if you have or you want to hire someone with experience this will remove any limits when it comes to share hosting.

CONS: I don’t have some serious dislikes about Digital Ocean, just some minor things: it’s not for beginners, but the good thing is you have plenty of tutorials so you can easily learn how to run this software. When it comes to speed I have to say that some operations are slow such as imaging, provisioning and others.

PROS: Good performance, affordable prices, enough essential features

CONS: Ok, so I’ve been using DigitalOcean since 2013 and everything was just fine. An on May 31 2018 something really worrying happened, all my files got deleted and I received this email: “We sincerely apologize, however, there was an incident impacting the Spaces service that resulted in a number of Spaces and the data within them to be deleted. At this time we're performing a full internal investigation to determine what the cause of the issue was as well as why it happened. Once we have a full understanding and additional details to share, we'll follow up. At this time, unfortunately, we can confirm that the data within your Spaces has been lost and is not recoverable. We deeply apologize for any inconvenience this has caused.” They never informed me further and none of my files were restore. No compensation except for $400 on my account, saying: “You have been granted credit to use on your DigitalOcean team for $400.00. We’ve updated your balance, which you can view at your team's billing page. Please note that this credit will expire after 12 months if it's not used.” I took severe loses… Now I am in the process of transferring to another service. Well, decide for yourself whether use their services, but I am really devastated by both my losses and their absolute ignorance.

PROS: You can start this program at any time without special knowledge about the system configuration. Its options are really good and helpful. The pricing starts at $5 per month for 20GB SSD VPS. Don’t be afraid to start with the Digital Ocean because they provide great tutorials for its customers who might never have maintained a VPS before. You can easily install Wordpress to run your mail servers. Also you are able to control your machine like boot, see usage statistics, create snapshots, shutdown, reset password. This software provides you with online shell and you can have your own web-based shall that will work like SSH, it’s great if you want to check something while not at home.

CONS: You cannot provide ISO for other flavor that are not in the list but you can choose from Linux flavours. You are paying even when your machine is turned off. Snapshots archive all HDD so if you want to re-create machines you will need 5min to do it even for small machines. Sometimes the machines crash because of the hard disk failures.

PROS: DigitalOcean doesn't complicate things when spinning up a server. I've been making use of DigitalOcean for a few years now. Since using it, I was able to migrate all web services to them. An Ubuntu server can be made and readily deployed online within minutes.

CONS: There's absolutely nothing bad to say about them so far. It's a perfect ten for me!

PROS: Reasonable price, precise and customized software. Works great to assigned resources. Great technical support. We can boot directly into our custom Linux kernel. SSH works amazingly, and ping is low. The API is powerful for creating dynamic droplets and images. Digital Ocean allows you to create integration with auto-balanced, microservices and self-healing ecosystem. It’s cheaper than Amazon.

CONS: Reboots happen because of the disk failure, but I have never lost my data. Sometimes the connection is lost but I think this is my internet provider. Does not have cheap containers with 250M. The power on/off is not fully supported for iOS and Android.

PROS: The product is easy to use and provides great and affordable price. I use it for testing various software to find which one I can configure and tear it down. Digital Ocean supports the deployment of different OS’ with a single click and there are lot of tutorials that are really helpful to show you how to use this product.

CONS: There is nothing I dislike about Digital Ocean. It works great.

PROS: Testing of official and community documentation on Javascript is detailed and you can easily transfer from hosted service to custom service on DigitalOcean. The price is reasonable, it is cheap for testing services, others charge steeply per hour. You have full access to your own server it is easy to maintain, tear and build environment with apt get. You can use the droplet pages tool if you have trouble with passwords or if you need backup of your data. The add-ons services are worth every penny.

CONS: You cannot easily upgrade when the loading is higher this is because the server is allocated during the droplet page creation. There are upgradation tools but they are available after the shut-down.

PROS: Within seconds, I can quickly operate a working GitLab instance or Discourse or even a Fedora image. Simply put, it's a jaw-dropping platform. It has a wide range of droplet sizes capable of determing a wide range of prices. With that, you'll only pay for the kind of configuration to be used.

CONS: After carrying out a clean installation for certain image, there are steps that need to be done to keep security in check. Typically, it would be ideal to look into some tutorials that are related to your image. This would ensure a secure configuration. It's a not a huge issue but I feel users deserve to be given instructions after setup.

PROS: User-friendly, cheap, web based cloud hosting service. The UI is helpful and anyone can learn how to use this program. Digital Ocean provides with various data centers around the world and you can choose a data center that is near to you. We have moved from other software to this one so we can create our own VPS in Singapore. You can even hire someone else to manage your servers, the most important thing you should know is that all your financial data is safe if you use DO. Quick and responsive support team, they instantly provide solutions for any problem.

CONS: Our server was hacked and some strange script was installed to send spam emails to our users, DO figured it out this problem and without letting us know out server was suspend. It would be great if they could send some warnings next time. We had to start over again with a new server.

PROS: DigitalOcean is super simple to utilize. The UI is easy to navigate. That means spinning up a new server can be done easily. Even a junior developer with little or no experience can do the task.

CONS: It's a bit too steep compared to other VPS solutions in the market. The lowest priced server contains only 512MB RAM. And that costs around $5 monthly. The memory isn't even enough to set up NodeJS and create frontend assets.

PROS: Great user experience. Just about everything is transparent. User-friendly. Pricing model is direct to the point, reasonable, and without any hidden fees.

CONS: There's a lack of flexibility when it came down to the Droplets setup. There have been some usage cases where I won't require lots of RAM in automated data processing. I don't need plenty of hard disk space. Otherwise, I'll be paying more for a bigger droplet.

PROS: Affordable price, easy to use, we can add new servers in less time. Digital Ocean provides us with reliable backup service and pre built images with LAMP software with combination of other pre-built servers. We can choose tutorials from its library and they are very helpful when it comes to installing various software on their server and it is easy to configure them all. Their API is great and we can automate any of the services they offer.

CONS: There is nothing to dislike about its service.

PROS: Easy to set up and there are no difficulties to run the software stack and to start the server. We use Digital Ocean’s docker-ready servers so we can accelerate our entire site including applications, database and webservers very quickly, without wasting time. The API is easy to set up, intuitive and we use curl and python libs with it.

CONS: Scaling up and down is in direct proportion to get an initial server running. Server images and their variables are fixed and set in stone. We end up with large disk-space than we need in order to get the RAM amount we need.

PROS: I am able to run GitLab, Discourse or plain Fedora image in few seconds. That’s how amazing DigitalOcean is. You can be sure that you will pay for what you really need thanks to various droplet sizes and prices. The price is reasonable and you can even choose from various data centers that are located around the world. You can even be on a vacation for 2 months if you want and still keep track of your progress by taking a snapshots of your Cloud droplet and whenever you need you can always turn it on, every piece of information you need is in one place. The tutorial repository is great feature, great knowledge base, understandable instructions and explanations.

CONS: When you install some images you need to take few steps to ensure security. It’s always a good idea to check tutorials that are related to the image so you can be sure that the configuration is secure. I think it would be great if the users get more direct instructions after the installation.

PROS: It's easy to get things started. Simple to comprehend. Unbelievably quick. They work hard in giving you the best of the best.

CONS: It has this all-or-nothing strategy for your droplets. Scaling up storage space or RAM is a no-go. But they're currently in progress with block-storage. It's a great way to kick things off.

PROS: So many good things about it. It's easy and swift in spinning up a VPS test server. Configuration operations are unlimited and affordable. There are plenty of pre-set distribution stacks to pick.

CONS: Some things to keep in mind. First off, I felt they have an urgent need in small-scale development. That's a pure shame if you happen to be in need of some kind of experience for a bigger production scale. It's really not as affordable as what you'd expect.