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DigitalOcean

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Developer-friendly cloud platform offering Droplets (VMs), App Platform (PaaS), managed databases, and Kubernetes — approachable pricing and docs.

License

Proprietary

Language

N/A

82
Trust
Strong

Why DigitalOcean?

Teams wanting a simpler, cheaper AWS alternative with great documentation

Apps running Docker or needing a managed Kubernetes cluster on a budget

Managed PostgreSQL or Redis without the complexity of AWS RDS

Signal Breakdown

What drives the Trust Score

API calls / mo
Billions
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Stack Overflow
8k q's
Community
High
Weighted Trust Score82 / 100

Download Trend

Last 12 months

Tradeoffs & Caveats

Know before you commit

Enterprise apps needing AWS/GCP's breadth of managed services

Serverless-first architectures — DigitalOcean App Platform isn't as mature as Vercel

Pricing

Free tier & paid plans

Free tier

60-day $200 credit for new accounts

Paid

Droplets from $4/mo, App Platform from $5/mo

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kubernetes

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Learning Resources

Docs, videos, tutorials, and courses

Docs

docs

App Platform

tutorial

Get Started

Repository and installation options

npmnpm install @digitalocean/functions

Quick Start

Copy and adapt to get going fast

# Deploy via App Platform (doctl CLI)
doctl auth init
doctl apps create --spec .do/app.yaml

# Or launch a Droplet via API
curl -X POST https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/droplets   -H "Authorization: Bearer $DO_TOKEN"   -d '{"name":"my-app","region":"nyc3","size":"s-1vcpu-1gb","image":"ubuntu-22-04-x64"}'

Community Notes

Real experiences from developers who've used this tool