DigitalOcean Reviews

Found DigitalOcean the best price, performance, uptime and feature set in testing and it keeps working.

Tested shared premium AMD droplets and is moving all servers since no performance impact is noticeable.

Moved to DigitalOcean because droplets are cheap and the support is still really good.

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.

Satisfied with a $6 droplet and good pricing and UX, but contradictory credit-program communications make them leave.

They have run a $4 DigitalOcean VPS with SQLite and Cloudflare R2 as their favorite setup for a while, able to run practically any server.

Uses Cloudflare Workers plus a DigitalOcean droplet for anything needing a real server; about $12 a month in total.

Likes DigitalOcean droplets for full OS control, Docker containers and 4 dollar a month small VMs.

Deploys personal projects with Docker on a DigitalOcean droplet for about 5 dollars a month with no worry about overbilling.

Uses DigitalOcean droplets and managed Kubernetes professionally and personally for years, as reliable as AWS or Azure and much cheaper.

They host their personal static site on DigitalOcean App Platform free tier and get a $0 invoice each month.

Used DigitalOcean with no issues ever; the only reason to leave is the price.

Says DigitalOcean App Platform costs 5 dollars a month, only needs a GitHub repo, and can auto-scale if needed.

Hosts four sites on a 5 dollar a month DigitalOcean server.

Moved from Vercel to DigitalOcean and finds it a pretty decent and affordable option.

Pays 5 dollars a month on DigitalOcean App Platform for a tiny virtual machine for a SvelteKit app.

Moved everything from Vercel to DigitalOcean for fair prices and 200 dollars of student credits; most personal projects still run on App Platform plus a droplet or two, with object storage about 80 percent of S3 cost.

Runs on a DigitalOcean droplet at a low price and likes the simple pricing and huge free tutorial archive.

They pay about $10 a month for a DigitalOcean droplet that handles multiple sites, including one with substantial traffic.

Runs a portfolio piece on a 6 dollar a month DigitalOcean droplet.

Never had an issue with DigitalOcean: a good balance between cheapest and big clouds with decent pricing and great UX.

Uses a $4/month 1 vCPU, 512MB droplet connected to the home network via Twingate and finds it works great for HTTPS.

Thinks DigitalOcean's managed database is excellent and a main reason to choose DO.

Trialed DigitalOcean, scaled massively and saved about $15k a month versus AWS with cost-effective 24/7 support.

DigitalOcean's $5 droplets and reasonably priced buckets are not bad and a good way to learn.

Finds DigitalOcean Apps the easiest option, deploying React from GitHub for about 3 dollars a month per project.

Runs about 15 mostly static or light sites on a single 24 dollar DigitalOcean droplet with nginx, replacing roughly 200 dollars a month of hosting; deploys via GitLab CI.

Hosted a frontend and a reasonably big API with pm2 on a 5 dollar DigitalOcean droplet handling 2-3k requests a minute, later moving to a bigger droplet and never hitting full capacity.

They recently moved to DigitalOcean and run 7 droplets, none above $24, sharing about 10TB of outgoing bandwidth.

They use DigitalOcean for everything with essentially fixed prices and have about 50TB of monthly transfer pooled, of which they use only half a terabyte.

They use DigitalOcean Spaces CDN and have never paid more than $5 a month for it in years, unlike AWS billing for things like 404s.

They pay $6 a month for a DigitalOcean droplet running their frontend, backend and several projects, and find it cheap enough even on a tight budget.

Uses DigitalOcean droplets for client backends, hosting many sites on one droplet cheaply.

Keeps a cheap DigitalOcean VPS for CI-type tasks after moving off AWS, where the infra requirements made it too expensive.

Served 30k+ daily visitors on a project from a 50 dollar DigitalOcean droplet without problems, though latency was worse for faraway users.

DigitalOcean is awesome for basic servers and databases, with an easy cheap Kubernetes, but has no real access management and bandwidth caps.

Runs a Next.js app with Postgres in a container on a 6 dollar a month DigitalOcean droplet and says it runs great.

Serves 10k monthly users on about $50 of DigitalOcean compute with a 200GB+ MySQL database that hums along.

Recommends DigitalOcean: servers are good and easy to set up, fairly priced and developer oriented.

A former sysadmin hosts on DigitalOcean because it is affordable and very simple to use for advanced users.

They have kept a DigitalOcean droplet for about a decade from the student pack, now $7.20 for 1 vCPU and 25GB SSD, with caps set and not worth migrating.

Uses DigitalOcean and AWS regularly; DOKS has a free managed control plane and is a no-brainer for learning and long-term hobby use.

A developer likes DigitalOcean for static hosting: 5 USD a month for 100 GB of storage and plenty of bandwidth.

Moved everything to DigitalOcean droplets for about $4 a month.

Runs a couple of small apps on DigitalOcean's entry VPS for about $6/month including backups.

Dirt cheap for personal use where hours of downtime are fine, but would never use it for production.

Runs 3 sites on a single $7 CAD DigitalOcean droplet.

They run two small sites on the base 5 dollar droplet and report no problems. They advise upgrading only when needed.

Uses cheap DigitalOcean VPS and deploys Next.js with PM2 and GitHub Actions.

A $5 DigitalOcean Debian droplet has served them well.

They say DigitalOcean's cheapest $4/month plan has worked pretty well for them in the past.

Uses DigitalOcean droplets for unbeaten prices and top quality service.

After Fargate and EKS, landed on DigitalOcean Kubernetes, which was better priced for them.