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    DigitalOcean: Product Overview and Insight

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    Chris Preimesberger
    Published July 25, 2018
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      eWEEK has started a new IT products and services section that encompasses most of the categories that we cover on our site. In it, we will spotlight the leaders in each sector, which include enterprise software, hardware, security, on-premises-based systems and cloud services. We also will add promising new companies as they come into the market.

      Company Name: DigitalOcean (enterprise cloud platform provider)

      Company description: DigitalOcean, a privately-held company headquartered in New York, provides a relatively easy cloud platform to deploy, manage, and scale applications of any size, removing infrastructure friction and providing predictability so developers and their teams can spend more time building software that customers love. DigitalOcean has 12 data centers globally in 8 regions. The company is led by Chief Executive Officer Mark Templeton.

      Markets: Cloud Infrastructure/Enterprise

      International Operations: DigitalOcean has data centers in:

      • Toronto, Canada
      • Frankfurt, Germany
      • Amsterdam, Netherlands
      • London, England
      • Singapore, Malaysia
      • Bangalore, India
      • Domestic data centers are located in New York City and San Francisco.

      Product and Services: 
      • Droplet

      The company’s nickname for cloud servers, this is the core DigitalOcean product. It offers software developers high-performant Linux Servers at market-leading prices, with a hyper-focus on simplicity and user experience. It comes packaged with compute-heavy resources, bandwidth, and memory with the option to add resources like storage on demand as needed. 2018 pricing update here.

      • Block Storage

      Highly available and scalable SSD-based offering that enables developers and businesses to easily attach extra disk space to Droplets.

      • Load Balancer

      A highly available product that enables developers and businesses to distribute traffic across their infrastructure to achieve 100 percent uptime for their production workloads.

      • Cloud Monitoring

      A free, opt-in service that provides insight into resource usage across your infrastructure. Monitoring is composed of a few different components which, together, increase visibility into the operational health of your servers.

      • Cloud Firewalls

      A free service that secures Droplets by reducing the surface area of a potential attack. Developers can deploy the service in seconds without installing or configuring any software and define what ports are visible on their Droplets to minimize risk.

      • Spaces

      Our object storage product, Spaces, provides a scalable and cost-effective way to address even the most complex storage needs within the same developer-friendly and easy-to-use UI that DigitalOcean is known for.

      • Kubernetes

      In May 2018, the company announced the early access of its managed Kubernetes product, which it claims is the easiest way to run containerized applications in the cloud. Designed for developers and businesses who want a simple way to deploy and manage container workloads, DigitalOcean Kubernetes removes the headache involved in setting up, managing and securing Kubernetes clusters while incorporating our trademark simplicity and ease of use.

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      Insight and Analysis

      Gartner Peer Insights has a half-dozen reviews of DigitalOcean’s software here.

      ServerGuy.com has a comparison of DigitalOcean vs. AWS here.

      Key excerpts:

      “DigitalOcean sells standard VPS servers with a very flexible provisioning and billing. The majority of the audience is developers who want to deploy ‘servers’ and applications to test it out.

      “DO focuses on selling cheap compute droplets, which is one of AWS’s many products.

      “Since AWS has the ‘everything for everyone’ approach, it sells multiple products in multiple categories. You can choose various products ranging from storage, networking, to database and compute.

      “Both are easy to set up. They are straightforward. AWS and DigitalOcean have an API that you can configure to add/launch/destroy/delete your projects. But DigitalOcean has a nicer UI for launching droplets.”

      ———————————-

      Several first-person reviews of the DigitalOcean are available here in IT Central Station.

      Key Excerpts:

      Valuable Features: Simple no-nonsense, super fast, and reliable Linux based servers on the cloud.

      Improvements to My Organization:

      • Ability to spin up additional production servers in seconds
      • Testing new systems and setup is super affordable
      • Instantly go global US/UK/Amsterdam

      Room for Improvement:
      • Backup/snapshots does not always restore properly
      • Would be nice to build servers direct from ISOs
      • Custom Kernels can be tricky

      Use of Solution: 5 months

      Deployment Issues: Deployments are super simple.

      Stability Issues: Stability has been rock solid.

      Scalability Issues: Not for our needs.

      Customer Service: Very responsive. Not always helpful.

      Technical Support: OK, not great. Then again, I am a fairly advanced user.

      (To read the full review, go here.)

      ——————————–

      Current DigitalOcean customers include:

      • High Fidelity
      • Houseparty
      • Cloudways
      • Preteckt
      • Content Ignite
      • Crowd Content

      Delivery: Cloud only

      Pricing: Subscription based; breakdown can be found here.

      Other key players in this market:

      • Amazon Web Services
      • Google Cloud Platform
      • Microsoft Azure
      • VULTR
      • Linode

      Contact information for potential customers:

      [email protected]

      https://www.digitalocean.com

      Resources:

      ServerGuy

      Gartner Peer Reviews

      eWEEK.com

      IT Central Station

      If you would like to have your company’s listing included in eWEEK’s new Product Overview & Analysis library, email [email protected].

      Chris Preimesberger
      Chris Preimesberger
      https://www.eweek.com/author/cpreimesberger/
      Chris J. Preimesberger is Editor Emeritus of eWEEK. In his 16 years and more than 5,000 articles at eWEEK, he distinguished himself in reporting and analysis of the business use of new-gen IT in a variety of sectors, including cloud computing, data center systems, storage, edge systems, security and others. In February 2017 and September 2018, Chris was named among the 250 most influential business journalists in the world (https://richtopia.com/inspirational-people/top-250-business-journalists/) by Richtopia, a UK research firm that used analytics to compile the ranking. He has won several national and regional awards for his work, including a 2011 Folio Award for a profile (https://www.eweek.com/cloud/marc-benioff-trend-seer-and-business-socialist/) of Salesforce founder/CEO Marc Benioff--the only time he has entered the competition. Previously, Chris was a founding editor of both IT Manager's Journal and DevX.com and was managing editor of Software Development magazine. He has been a stringer for the Associated Press since 1983 and resides in Silicon Valley.
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