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Daniel Durian
Awareness training on phishing emails using DigitalOcean
Employees were made aware of the threats of phishing emails using DigitalOcean has improved our organization by lowering the number of malicious... Read more →
Saurabh Chandratre
With the VPC, you can run your workloads in an active state, use it for development work and for hosting SQL/Exchange...
The projects that I have delivered on vCloud Air have definitely helped clients in having a full DR solution in cloud, for their head office as... Read more →
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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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    What do you like most about DigitalOcean?
    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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    What needs improvement with DigitalOcean?
    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 »
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    What is your primary use case for DigitalOcean?
    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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    12th
    out of 67 in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)
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    2,199
    Comparisons
    2,255
    Reviews
    7
    Average Words per Review
    353
    Rating
    8.4
    21st
    out of 67 in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)
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    283
    Comparisons
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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.
    vCloud Air is a public cloud platform built on the trusted foundation of vSphere, compatible with your on-premises data center, that includes infrastructure, disaster recovery, and various applications as service offerings. vCloud Air allows you to extend your workloads into the cloud with ease. You can migrate existing onsite virtual machines (VMs) to the public cloud or start up new application VMs directly in the cloud.
    Sample Customers
    jQuery Foundation, Pertino, TaskRabbit, Compose, InfluxDB, The Able Few
    Lumeta, LifeSite, Clear Tec Solutions, National Physician Services, Queens University of Charlotte, California Natural Resources Agency, Pacific Disaster Center, Seventy Seven Energy Inc., Columbia Sportswear , CSS Corp
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    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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    DigitalOcean is ranked 12th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 9 reviews while vCloud Air is ranked 21st in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS). DigitalOcean is rated 8.4, while vCloud Air is rated 8.0. 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 vCloud Air writes "With the VPC, you can run your workloads in an active state, use it for development work and for hosting SQL/Exchange Servers in IaaS; RaaS/DaaS for DR activities". DigitalOcean is most compared with Amazon AWS, Google Firebase, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Alibaba Cloud, whereas vCloud Air is most compared with Microsoft Azure, SQL Azure and Amazon AWS.

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