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Ran sites and a SaaS on DigitalOcean Kubernetes and droplets but moved to AWS because all outgoing SMTP is blocked and support said it cannot be unblocked.
“But having to pay for an additional service jsut to send out welcome email or password change emails just feels wrong,”
Years on DigitalOcean, dislikes that everything has a public IP and that the managed databases have few tuning options, and has an unresolved network issue with dropped connections and DNS failures; support has been useless.
“I've been on DO for years. I hate the fact that everything has a public IP address, the managed databases have very few options for tuning”
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.
“I'm using Digital Ocean for more than twelve years and i like the fixed payments and have always resources available.”
Using DigitalOcean since 2012 but, having seen abysmal support even before the layoffs, would never recommend it for an important workload.
“Been using it since 2012, but having experienced the already abysmal support before their layoffs, I will never pitch it to anyone with a remotely important workload.”
A former sysadmin hosts on DigitalOcean because it is affordable and very simple to use for advanced users.
“I use Digital Ocean because it's affordable and very simple to use for advanced hosting users.”
A developer likes DigitalOcean for static hosting: 5 USD a month for 100 GB of storage and plenty of bandwidth.
“I like digital ocean, 5usd/mo, 100gb of content and I think 10tb/mo of bandwidth”
A developer runs WordPress on a DigitalOcean VPS with CloudPanel and Redis and consistently gets 99-100 page speed scores.
“I spin up a VPS on Digital Ocean and use Cloud Panel. I then use Reddis which is built into WP.”