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DigitalOcean Cloud Server Platform Review
"Cloud Infrastructure for Developers"
Note: Pricing information is correct as of February 27th, 2025 and is subject to change.
Based in New York City, New York, DigitalOcean Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: DOCN), is an Internet Cloud Computing Platform company with a $3.6 Billion USD market capitalization.
DigitalOcean offers a variety of Linux OS Distributions to choose from including Alma Linux, Rocky, CentOS, Debian, Fedora & Ubuntu Linux.
Plans start at $4/month with 1 CPU, 512MB of RAM & 500 GB of transfer. DO scales to 96 GB RAM, 600 GB Disk, 11 TB of Transfer & 48 CPUs with a $1,008/month premium plan. Droplets, as DigitalOcean calls virtual machines, can be CPU Optomized, Memory Optimized & Storage Optimized or for a more General Purpose.
DigitalOcean Basic Shared CPU Plans
| vCPUs | Memory | Storage | Transfer | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 512 MB RAM | 10 GB SSD | 500 GB | $4/month |
| 1 | 1 GB RAM | 25 GB SSD | 1000 GB | $6/month |
| 1 | 2 GB RAM | 50 GB SSD | 2000 GB | $12/month |
| 2 | 2 GB RAM | 60 GB SSD | 3 TB | $18/month |
| 2 | 4 GB RAM | 80 GB SSD | 4 TB | $24/month |
| 4 | 8 GB RAM | 160 GB SSD | 5 TB | $48/month |
| 8 | 16 GB RAM | 320 GB SSD | 6 TB | $96/month |
DigitalOcean features include: 99.99% uptime SLA ( Service Level Agreement ) ( The equivalent of 8.6 seconds / day downtime ), Cloud Firewall, DDoS Protection, Volume Block Storage, Backups, DNS, Load Balancers, server & networking metric graphing. GPU droplets for AI & Machine Learning. There is also a web based console if locked out. Free Email ticket support with a response time of 1 day. Other support plans available, going up to $999/month.
DigitalOcean offers a managed database service for MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Caching, Apache Kafka & OpenSearch databases.
Port 25 is blocked by default on all new DigitalOcean accounts to prevent spam. Due to the high risk of spam associated with open access to port 25, most cloud providers, including DigitalOcean, block it. DigitalOcean is recommending using the SendGrid Email API instead of running your own email server. Not running your own smtp service, but rather using an email service, such as SendGrid, seems to be a trend in the computing world.
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