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Datacenter Countries

The selected providers have datacenters in the following countries.

DigitalOcean
Canada
Germany
India
Netherlands
Singapore
United Kingdom
United States

Features and Usability

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DigitalOcean
Hourly Billing  Yes
DDOS Protection  No
Backups  No
Control Panel  Builtin
SSH Keys Setup  Yes
Total Number of Datacenters  12
Number of Datacenter Continents  3
Monitoring Charts  Yes
Admin REST API  Yes
Upgrade VPS from admin console  Yes
Mobile Friendly UI  Yes
Reverse DNS  No
Accepted Forms of Payment  Credit cards, Paypal
Hidden CPU Model  No
Affiliate Program  Yes
Firewall  No
Shelving  No

Extra Services

Those services are offered by providers independently of their cloud servers.

DigitalOcean
Backups  -  Instance backups or snapshots
Block storage  -  Allocate storage volumes independently of instances and attach them to instances of your choice
Object storage  -  Data storage for objects, individual files with API access
Load balancer  -  Distribute traffic across set of instances
Floating IP addresses  -  Allocate IP addresses independently of instances and attach them to instances of your choice
Team Management  -  Management of users who are authorized to handle resources in your account
Managed databases  -  Managed databases such as MySQL, Postgresql, Aurora, ...
Serverless  -  Deploy code as functions and let the provider manage where the code runs
DDoS protection  -  Distributed Denial of Service protection
Kubernetes  -  Management of Docker containers
GPU instances  -  GPU instances to run your AI workload
Private network  -  Use private IP addresses to communicate between your own instances at this provider

Stengths & Weaknesses

Strengths Weaknesses
DigitalOcean
  • Numerous datacenter locations.
  • Modern, intuitive and fast UI.
  • Large catalog of cloud services.
  • Slowish performance on average.

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