Production systems on DigitalOcean for a few years: support was fast and helpful, quite reliable and cheap.
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A score out of 100. Negative and mixed reviews take points off, and so does having only a few reviews, so a handful of glowing reviews can’t beat a product many people like.
53% Positive14% Mixed33% Negative
Most customers find it reliable, cheap and simple, often running droplets for years without problems.
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Found DigitalOcean the best price, performance, uptime and feature set in testing and it keeps working.
Their company has been on DigitalOcean 10+ years without issue, though they keep backups elsewhere.
Has used DigitalOcean for years, finds it very reliable and has never needed to contact support because it has always just worked.
Has used DigitalOcean for more than twelve years, likes the fixed payments and always-available resources, and recalls only one unrecoverable droplet crash; support is just OK.
They self-host mail with mailcow on an 8GB DigitalOcean instance and it has worked fine for family, friends and small orgs, roughly 80-100 mailboxes.
A DigitalOcean account for over 10 years; occasional abuse reports always resolved without issue.
Several years on DigitalOcean; abuse cases always came with a chance to fix them and never a lockout.
8-10 years on DigitalOcean with very rare issues; DO contacted them within 5 minutes of a host problem and support replies come within 24 hours.
Fifteen years with DigitalOcean without issues; late bills brought multiple warnings and time to sort things out.
Hosts internal Next.js apps on DigitalOcean droplets and finds Next works great on a VPS with a single container.
A droplet of over five years with only brief maintenance interruptions.
Uses DigitalOcean droplets and managed Kubernetes professionally and personally for years, as reliable as AWS or Azure and much cheaper.
They moved their Rails apps to DigitalOcean Kubernetes a few years ago using the Cuber gem and say it works perfectly.
Runs production apps with around 500 users each on shared CPU droplets and recommends premium AMD.
Not a single five-minute downtime in over four years.
DigitalOcean has worked great for over a month with no issues or ID verification.
Their first droplet is still around nine years later and DigitalOcean was always reliable.
Runs half a dozen sites and many subdomains on a single DigitalOcean Ubuntu droplet.
Has run postfix mail servers on DigitalOcean droplets for about 10 years.
Customer since the early days and always totally satisfied, though also uses much cheaper OVH.
About ten years on DigitalOcean with only once or twice an issue.
A DigitalOcean customer for over 8 years without problems.
A DigitalOcean managed database with standby and read-only node for over two years without lag or issues.
Seven or eight years on a DigitalOcean managed database, amazingly solid and better tuned than their own.
Runs 10-12 managed MySQL instances on DigitalOcean with no performance issues.
Five-plus years on DigitalOcean, overall satisfied; missing a managed NAT gateway.
Clusters on DO, Linode, AWS and Hetzner over a decade: DigitalOcean never had an incident in years.
Shared CPU droplets for internal apps and testing without problems for years.
Has used DigitalOcean since 2017, almost ten years, with no complaints.
Has used DigitalOcean for many years without issue.
DigitalOcean App Platform has been very solid as a Heroku replacement.
A droplet up for about ten years that has never been down.
Hosted multiple sites on DigitalOcean for years with zero shutdowns, lockouts or data loss.
A decade on DigitalOcean without an issue.
Runs their Django/React backend on a DigitalOcean droplet with managed Postgres and says it works great.
They moved from Vultr to DigitalOcean and describe the difference in reliability and support as night and day.
Moved to DigitalOcean a couple of years ago and couldn't be happier.
After moving back to DigitalOcean they have been rock solid over a month or two of testing.
Three years on DigitalOcean with zero issues; blazing fast.
They run a low-volume multi-domain Mailinabox mail server on a DigitalOcean VPS and have had no IP reputation or delivery problems across several years, apart from two legacy-TLS providers.
One VM on DigitalOcean for nearly ten years with no problems, and a new production instance is going well.
Has run pfSense in a DigitalOcean droplet for years and it just works very well.
Runs a Next.js app with Postgres in a container on a 6 dollar a month DigitalOcean droplet and says it runs great.
Ten years with DigitalOcean and still loves it.
DigitalOcean is their go-to, running most heavily trafficked apps from a single droplet.
On DigitalOcean for years running multiple servers with no issues.
Runs everything including high-usage services on DigitalOcean with no issues in 4 years.
Five years on DigitalOcean in production with no issues or downtime.
Business-critical software ran for years without issue; when hardware failed, DigitalOcean proactively moved the VPS with about an hour of downtime.
Common questions about DigitalOcean
What do customers say about DigitalOcean?
Most customers find it reliable, cheap and simple, often running droplets for years without problems. The main complaint is support, with new accounts auto-blocked or suspended and a few accounts and data deleted after failed payments, often with little explanation. Some are frustrated by blocked outbound email ports.
Is DigitalOcean worth it?
Of the 121 reviews with a clear verdict, 53% are positive, 14% mixed and 33% negative. The praise mentioned most is reliable. The most common complaint is poor support.
What do people like about DigitalOcean?
The praise reviewers mention most: reliable (38 reviews), great value (23 reviews) and easy to use (13 reviews). For example: They moved from Vultr to DigitalOcean and describe the difference in reliability and support as night and day.
What are the most common complaints about DigitalOcean?
The complaints reviewers mention most: poor support (34 reviews), outages (9 reviews) and slow (6 reviews). For example: Account was blocked after running ten shared-CPU droplets at 100% for an experiment and could not be unlocked.
What does the signal score of 76 mean?
It's how well reviewed DigitalOcean is, out of 100. Negative and mixed reviews take points off, and so does having only a few reviews: a service needs plenty of them, compared with the most-reviewed services here, to reach the high 80s and 90s. It's worked out from reviews only, needs at least 5 of them, and updates as new ones come in.
What are the specs of DigitalOcean?
Category: Cloud platform.
Where do these DigitalOcean reviews come from?
212 are quotes from Reddit, each linked to the original. Customer reviews are checked for spam before they appear. Every review, written here or quoted, is read as positive, mixed or negative.
