Pros and Cons of DigitalOcean 2024 (2024)

Ease of use and ease of configuration

Competitive pricing

Good documentation and knowledge base

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.

Scalable hosting

Price is really good compared to competition

Customer support is really efficient and fast to reply

Prices

Easy to use

UI

The network transit carriers they use are great. They use Tier-1 network providers making a website hosted on DigitalOcean super fast to most of the viewers in every country.

Hardware: I had visited DigitalOcean Bangalore collocation provider after getting an approval for a hackathon. They're using the Dell Rack Servers with Samsung SSDs. I'm really happy to be running on DigitalOcean.

Customer Support: These guys always excelled it. Excellent support personnel with sound technical knowledge.

Developer-friendly tools and APIs.

Great documentation.

Awesome community and support.

Good and clean UI for cloud resources management.

Nice collection of products which is growing all the time adding new products every year.

Easy to set up.

Extremely affordable.

Upgrade hardware on the fly.

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

Great upgrade and resizing options

New monitoring services work very well

Great pricing

Ease of use - You can get set up with a new server in a matter of minutes. It doesn't get any easier than that.

Support - The public forums are incredibly helpful as are the official help articles. I've never needed to contact the support team because of this. All of the information is at my fingertips.

Pricing - We're only paying $10/mo for a solution that gives our customers more confidence in us and is a selling point for us.

We have been building websites for over 15 years, and in that time we feel like we have found the perfect host for our needs.

Technical issues that we have encountered, or problems with setting up website related services have been very quickly and professionally dealt with.

The customer service is top notch, and surprisingly the customer service representatives have been very enjoyable to talk to.

Over the last year DigitalOcean has greatly expanded the services they offer.

Easy to get started

Good selection of virtual machine images

Good dashboarding and metrics to show uptime to stakeholders

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.

Best Support Team

Low Cost & Reliable

Booting up a new Droplet takes less than 1 minute

They are continuously improving and adding new services

Best documentation for our technical team

Clear and useful documentation for a variety of setups - I've used a variety of their documentation for setting up virtual domains, mail, Apache modules, and SSL. There is an active community helping to keep these documents up to date.

Priced well and great performance - Their packages start at $5/month and offer many options for a flexible bundle that fits your needs.

Great help desk - I've submitted three or so tickets to their help desk, and each time they are very responsive and guide me in understanding the solution to my questions.

Price Point

Documentation

User Interface

Reliability

Cloud computing services at amazingly low rates, such as $5 a server per month.

They have a very clean, simple, an self-explanatory interface. This is the first cloud provider I can honestly truly say this about, Google is second.

The price per resource is lower than most other providers, while offering the same core compute services. This is especially true, as their storage services are only provided by SSD, which is usually priced at a premium

The best part is DigitalOcean always has promos going on, and you can manage a server for free if you invite someone monthly or trial other services such as CodeAnywhere.

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

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.

SPEED! DigitalOcean provides a really good response speed compared to similar providers. Their servers and Drops perform really well when configured the right way.

Ease of Use. Even for a seasoned developer like me, DigitalOcean seemed a bit intimidating at first due to its need to configure almost anything using a console screen. Turns out however, it was very easy to use by using the web interface and following guides on the internet.

Documentation. DigitalOcean offers one of the best pieces of documentation one can find for a service anywhere. From creating an account to setting up complex configurations and services, they have it very well documented. If you still can't find how to do anything, you can either read guides on the internet or ask for support and someone will point you in the right direction.

Server management dashboard

Community support

Infrastructure as a service

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.

The user interface is simple, streamlined and easy to use

Servers (Droplets) take only minutes to set up. The time from creation to fully configured is about as good as it gets.

Reliablity. Uptime is great, never an issue.

Cost. They have several, quite reasonable, price points to support small to large websites.

Price

Speed

Support

Excellent custom service

An intuitive control panel

Fast SSD drivies

Excellent, competitive pricing