Satisfied with a $6 droplet and good pricing and UX, but contradictory credit-program communications make them leave.
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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.
What customers love, and what they don’tWhat customers noticed
Customer reviews (212)
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The control panel's AI assistant chat keeps reopening and wastes 30% of the screen, so they started trying alternatives.
DigitalOcean App Platform is easy to set up but lacked SPA routing and catch-all routes, so they moved the front end back to Cloudflare Pages.
DigitalOcean is great with no issues, fast and easy to use.
Used DigitalOcean and Hetzner for backends but worries about stability and security since setup is not straightforward, preferring managed platforms.
DigitalOcean is meh: fine for basics, but Terraform provider support is poor and there are many breaking changes.
Moved from AWS and GCP to DigitalOcean for the simple UI, but a redesign has cluttered the dashboard.
Used a $6 DigitalOcean droplet for load tests because it spins up quickly; it handled about 1,700 req/s before tuning.
Says DigitalOcean App Platform costs 5 dollars a month, only needs a GitHub repo, and can auto-scale if needed.
Spun up and tore down DigitalOcean droplets via API for scraping jobs and it worked really well.
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.
Never had an issue with DigitalOcean: a good balance between cheapest and big clouds with decent pricing and great UX.
They like DigitalOcean for its lack of complexity.
Finds DigitalOcean Apps the easiest option, deploying React from GitHub for about 3 dollars a month per project.
DigitalOcean was by far the easiest of the three for Kubernetes; spun up dozens of 3-node training clusters easily, though its service set is smallest.
They have one work app on DigitalOcean App Platform, a backend that pulls Instagram photos, and found it simple to set up and connect to a managed database.
DigitalOcean is very good to start quickly but lacks granular IAM; an API token is org-wide read or write.
DigitalOcean is awesome for basic servers and databases, with an easy cheap Kubernetes, but has no real access management and bandwidth caps.
Recommends DigitalOcean: servers are good and easy to set up, fairly priced and developer oriented.
Five years on DigitalOcean and likes the simplicity, UI and UX.
Finds DigitalOcean really easy to host on, via App Platform or a regular Ubuntu droplet, with really good documentation.
They enjoy DigitalOcean for its documentation and currently use a droplet, Spaces CDN and App Platform for an API.
Uses DigitalOcean and AWS regularly; DOKS has a free managed control plane and is a no-brainer for learning and long-term hobby use.
Deployed Next.js to an existing DigitalOcean Ubuntu server with pm2 and found it crazy simple.
Says DigitalOcean App Platform has been wonderful for their Next.js front ends.
Likes the control and ease of access on DigitalOcean and it is their main hosting choice.
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.
