DigitalOcean Reviews & Product Details

Clean UI & UX: The control panel is intuitive and uncluttered, making it easy to spin up and manage virtual machines, databases, and other services even for beginners.

Transparent pricing: Their pricing model is straightforward and predictable—especially attractive for startups and developers who need to keep tight control over costs.

Developer community & documentation: DigitalOcean has built a strong library of tutorials and guides, which are often more accessible and practical than what you find from bigger cloud providers.

Droplets (VMs): Launching a Droplet is fast, and performance tends to be solid for most general-purpose applications.

Managed services: They’ve expanded into managed databases, Kubernetes, app platform (PaaS), etc., offering more flexibility while maintaining simplicity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Additional payment methods should be introduced to support currencies other than the US Dollar, such as Indian Rupees for customers in India. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I've been using DigitalOcean for two years to support my own project. What stands out the most is how easy it is to use. The platform is beginner-friendly, the UI is clean, and setting up servers or other resources is straightforward without needing to dig through complex configurations. This simplicity helped me focus more on building my project rather than managing infrastructure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One downside I've noticed is the lack of a free tier for cloud databases. For beginners or small projects, having a zero-cost starting point would make it easier to experiment and grow without upfront costs. Compared to other providers that offer limited free database options, this can make DigitalOcean feel less accessible for early-stage users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As an occasional web developer and someone who wants to move forward with creating a bunch of powerful APPs in the future... Digital Ocean allows me to expand as my needs fit. I also love the fact I can choose to run my websites/APP's on AMD processors.

If you need more space... drag the slider. If you want another droplet, add one. If you want a load balancer, add one. It's very flexible and even as an intermediate web developer their systems are quite well done.

Prices seem fair and we use the Toronto location for hosting. We are now hosting 12 domains on a single simple low cost server. We will be expanding and coding for years to come and at least we know that if we need more... Digital Ocean can handle it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Using G2 to submit a review. After finishing the entire review, it FAILED to submit for no reason whatsoever... I wasted 25 min of my time.

I had very detailed answers in every category to be very thorough... the question remains... should I redo everything and waste another 25 min only to have it fail again? And now, most likely won't be chosen for the $25 gift card all because your site wouldn't submit my review and I don't feel like giving super detailed answers having to do this twice.

Ugh...

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I am just going to summarize my answers since I already gave detailed ones... please fix your website.

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My answer for what I dislike about DO?

So far nothing. It's been fine, but as I had posted on before, if I had to find a fault with DO... (ugh)... I can't even remember what I wrote now. How frustrating this has become. I'm on a deadline, thought this wouldn't take that long... and now that I have to redo it... I'm all frustrated... can't think... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

DigitalOcean is a flexible and scalable platform that works perfectly for small and medium-sized businesses. It offers an intuitive interface, fast server deployment, and affordable pricing, which makes it ideal for startups or growing companies. The technical documentation is extensive and very helpful for developers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The main downside is the lack of customer support in Spanish. This can be a challenge for non-English-speaking users, especially during critical issues. It would be great to see more localized support for Latin America and Spanish-speaking users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I'm working on a startup together with a friend. We haven't gone live yet, but I feel compelled to give an honest review of DigitalOcean after having used their droplets for almost 4 months now.

Well, just like most startups, we have a tight budget yet need massive resources to run a video sharing MERN app.

We first tried AWS, but that was way out of out budget. After a lot of research, we came across DigitalOcean, tried their droplets for three months using their free trial and haven't looked back.

What I love most is how easy it is to manage our kubernetes cluster without worrying about how much we'll pay at the end of the month. All we needed to do is select how many droplets we needed based on number of vCPUs, RAM, and disk storage, and we're guaranteed to pay only for those droplets . The only other cost is space storage, persistent storage, and load balancer, all of which are also so easy to estimate and cheap.

Their customer service is also really good, and they'll respond even during weekends. But you have to be very clear on what you need help on so they can assist you with the fewest number of messages since they do not respond immediately. But they also offer premium customer service options if you need immediate responses.

Another option is BobCares, which they do promote on their site also. It's a third-party customer service for kubernetes which I've used before and didn't like it at all. First, they're pretty expensive - about $99 per hour - and you're not guaranteed they'll solve your issue. Second, you have to give them access to your kubernetes cluster, which could be a potential source of a security breach for your cluster.

For someone who didn't know how to spin up a kubernetes cluster from scratch for a MERN app, I'd say choosing DigitalOcean was my best decision ever. I have control over everything and have an amazing group of specialists waiting to help any time I get stuck.

Their online publications are also super helpful and very well documented. I can't talk much about their DigitalOcean managed kubernetes (DOKS), but if you're looking to spin up a kubernetes cluster from scratch inside droplets, you'll need their CSI driver, which is just as easy as copying and pasting it from their Github. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The only negative experience I've had is in setting up firewall for my droplets using their firewall dashboard. I noticed that anytime I could add firewall rules, my site got really slow. I'm not sure why and didn't bother asking them so I can't blame it all on them. I went for the alternative of setting up firewall using iptables, which works fine now. I honestly can't think of any other negative experience.

Since I'm using Droplets rather than their managed kubernetes service (DOKS), most of the issues I come across are things I can solve since I have control over the entire kubernetes set up. That's why it's kind of difficult to address any negatives; I can't fault them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It strikes the best balance of provided services and low complexity for SMBs. We don't have dedicated SREs, we don't wanna spend countless hours setting up IAMs, dozens of configs just to do the simplest of things, or trying to figure out what services is the best.

If you're looking for simple to use and straightfoward servers, DBs, containers, DNS management, S3 buckets, etc, the Digital Ocean is a great solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We would like juuuust a tad more permission management, specifically giving people permissions on a project-based level, so that we can isolate between prod and dev.

But as I already mentioned, we appreciate the simplicity and straight forwardness of DO, so I'd rather use what they have right now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I've been with DigitalOcean for almost 10 years and extremely happy with their services, which don't overwhelm you with options and are a great value. Customer support when needed is excellent and they have lots of self-help support in the form of how-to documents and examples. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

So far I have no complaints, they meet my needs perfectly. If I was with a larger Enterprise or government Institution they might be a harder sell as they don't have the same credibility as a Microsoft or Amazon, but for what most people need digital ocean is great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I really like they are predictable regarding the pricing and offers stable products that have zero downtime. I am a client over more than 10 years and only had positive interactions with their support team and product. Zero headaches and awesome performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

In the past they only offered droplets which was kinda limiting, but now they offer a wide array of services so I don't think there's anything that I dislike about it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The value for the price, and their customer service. The control panel / UI is easy to navigate. I have Digital Ocea to manage some Docker packages, including my web hosting service. I more recently started to explore the deployment of some AI platforms, but I'd rather purchase my hardware to develop in-house, and then deploy to the Cloud when it is production ready. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Their offerings don't compare to something like AWS, but for small and medium-sized businesses they have a nice platform that keeps improving. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It just works, setup was easy and I've had no issues with the platform since then. Recovery tools just work when you need them and adding additional volumes is just a few clicks with really clear pricing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Have not had any downsides yet beyond but being cheapest in the market but that's balanced out by the updates. I don't have experience with their support services or other products so have limited knowledge of their downsides Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.