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"It's been a good choice for us for some services. We generally have several deployments. For instance, for some static Angular applications, it was a clear choice to run them on Cloudflare, which performs very well in this context. All the assets go on DigitalOcean.""The solution is very stable.""The most valuable feature is the ease with which you can create a phishing server and use it.""The most outstanding aspect of DigitalOcean is its user interface and ease of use. Compared to more complex solutions, such as AWS, DigitalOcean's platform is highly intuitive and user-friendly.""The customer support team are very responsive.""The solution is easy to set up.""I like Kubernetes integration.""The user interface is nice, and it is very easy to use. Anyone can use it."

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"The most valuable feature for us is the support, which is really efficient.""There is easy integration with multiple providers and third-party services.""Image backup is a valuable feature. Even though this is a common feature, it is very helpful for us."

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"Other solutions are proving the monitoring feature, like AWS having GuardDuty and SAP having services for logs and monitoring. DigitalOcean doesn’t have any other benefits.""We found the solution to be a bit expensive.""The technical support for this solution could be improved.""I think something needs to be done in terms of technical support.""The solution could improve by having integration with GitHub.""I would like to see improvements to the logging and user interface. The verification process could be more streamlined.""The issue with DigitalOcean is primarily the latency. So, when you have a mixed system with some components staying here, and then we encounter network latency, it's not optimal. Our""I would like to see an automation feature added to send emails out using the open-source solution."

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"It doesn't offer Elastic IP like AWS. And also we can't configure our server based on region.""It would be nice to have more built-in suites compared to others. It would enable easier integration."

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  • "The program is cheaper than others."
  • "This is a pay as you go solution. There is no license and it is usage based."
  • "There is no licensing fee but there is a subscription cost based on how much RAM and storage you require."
  • "The price of DigitalOcean could be lower. It is expensive. it's higher than other solutions available in the market. We pay approximately $20 to $25 a month to use the solution. The price we pay is for the shared CPU option."
  • "The solution provides the cheapest cloud in comparison to the other cloud solutions."
  • "The pricing is cheap."
  • "I would rate DigitalOcean's pricing a six out of ten, where one is cheap, and ten is very expensive."
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  • "The service includes licenses (for operating systems, databases, etc.). Asset management is easier with services like that."
  • "Comparatively, this solution is a bit expensive."
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    Amazon Web Services, Rackspace OpenStack, Microsoft Windows Azure and Google are the major cloud hosting and storage service providers. Athough Amazon is top of them and is oldest in cloud market, Rackspace, Microsoft and Google are giving tough competition to each other and to Amazon also for alluring IT customers. This article give brief history of these cloud hosting service providers and compares the cloud services provided by them. -- Amazon Web Services -- It's hard to find someone who doesn't agree that Amazon Web Services is the market leader in IaaS cloud computing. The company has one of the widest breadths of cloud services - including compute, storage, networking, databases, load balancers, applications and application development platforms all delivered as a cloud service. Amazon has dropped its prices 21 times since it debuted its cloud six years ago and fairly consistently fills whatever gaps it has in the size of virtual machine instances on its platform - the company recently rolled out new high-memory instances, for example. There are some cautions for Amazon though. Namely, its cloud has experienced three major outages in two years. One analyst, Jillian Mirandi of Technology Business Researcher, has suggested that continued outages could eventually start hindering businesses' willingness to invest in Amazon infrastructure. That sentiment gets to a larger point about AWS though - the service seems to be popular in the startup community, providing the IT… Read more →
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    Top Answer:It's been a good choice for us for some services. We generally have several deployments. For instance, for some static Angular applications, it was a clear choice to run them on Cloudflare, which… more »
    Top Answer:The issue with DigitalOcean is primarily the latency. So, when you have a mixed system with some components staying here, and then we encounter network latency, it's not optimal. Our present… more »
    Top Answer:It's been a good choice for us for some services. We generally have several deployments. For instance, for some static Angular applications, it was a clear choice to run them on Cloudflare, which… more »
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    Overview
    DigitalOcean has the fastest and most convenient cloud technology to help you easily and more efficiently manage your infrastructure so you can get back to coding. We provide all of our users with high-performance SSD Hard Drives, a flexible API, and the ability to select the nearest data center location.

    Rackspace is a listed company that specializes in hybrid cloud environments to support your applications and sites. The environments are based on its open-source operating system OpenStack.Rackspace Cloud caters for the private cloud, public cloud, dedicated servers, or a hybrid of platforms.

    Your Rackspace Cloud environment is customizable according to your cloud requirements, and all products work together seamlessly from one portal.

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    jQuery Foundation, Pertino, TaskRabbit, Compose, InfluxDB, The Able Few
    3D Capacity, Acquity Group, Axios Systems, Behance, Blastro, Dominos Pizza, and Sage.
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    Computer Software Company14%
    Comms Service Provider9%
    Educational Organization7%
    University6%
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    Small Business78%
    Large Enterprise22%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business33%
    Midsize Enterprise19%
    Large Enterprise48%
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    Small Business73%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise18%
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    DigitalOcean is ranked 12th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 9 reviews while Rackspace Cloud [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS). DigitalOcean is rated 8.4, while Rackspace Cloud [EOL] is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of DigitalOcean writes "Testing new systems is affordable. Backup/snapshots does not always restore properly". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rackspace Cloud [EOL] writes "There is easy integration with multiple providers and third-party services". DigitalOcean is most compared with Amazon AWS, Google Firebase, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Alibaba Cloud, whereas Rackspace Cloud [EOL] is most compared with .

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