DIGITALOCEAN
General Overview
DigitalOcean is a cloud infrastructure provider (IaaS) fundamentally designed for developers, startups, and small-to-medium businesses (SMBs). It stands out for its great simplicity, predictable pricing, excellent documentation, and one of the most active developer communities in the world. Its focus is on facilitating the deployment and scalability of modern applications without the extreme complexity of AWS or Azure.
🚀 Main Services
Droplets (Virtual Machines)
DigitalOcean's flagship product. These are scalable Linux-based virtual private servers (VPS) that are very rapid to deploy (under 1 minute). Options include general purpose, CPU, memory, or storage optimized.
Managed Kubernetes (DOKS)
A managed Kubernetes service where DigitalOcean handles the control plane for free. Users only pay for the Droplets (worker nodes) and associated resources.
App Platform (Platform as a Service - PaaS)
A fully managed solution to rapidly build, deploy, and scale applications by pulling code directly from GitHub or GitLab repositories, or container images.
Spaces (S3 Object Storage)
S3-compatible storage for hosting and distributing large volumes of unstructured files. Includes a built-in global Content Delivery Network (CDN).
Volumes (Block Storage)
Scalable virtual hard drives that can be attached to Droplets to increase their SSD storage capacity at any time.
✨ Key Features
Networking and Security
Offers Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) for isolated private networks, Load Balancers to distribute traffic, free Cloud Firewalls, and Reserved IPs.
Managed Databases
Databases 'as a service' (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB). DigitalOcean handles security patches, daily backups, and unattended scalability.
DigitalOcean Marketplace
A store with over 200 applications (like WordPress, Docker, GitLab, cPanel) configured in '1-Click' that install and deploy onto a Droplet automatically.
DigitalOcean Functions
Serverless computing solution to run code snippets on demand without provisioning any hardware.
Available Plans
Regular 512 MB
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Regular 1 GB
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Regular 2 GB
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Regular 2 GB 2vCPU
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Regular 4 GB
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Regular 8 GB
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Regular 16 GB
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Premium Intel 11
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Premium Intel 21
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Premium Intel 164
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Premium Intel 328
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Premium AMD 11
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Premium AMD 164
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Premium AMD 328
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