DigitalOcean Review

Features and Usability

Features not included in the VPS price are marked as missing below.

Last updated on September 13 2016.

Feature Value Comment
Hourly Billing  Yes
DDOS Protection  No

DigitalOcean recommends using the services of CloudFlare to mitigate DDOS attacks.
Backups  No

Backups are available for a fee.
Snapshots are available for a fee ($0.10 per GB per month).
Control Panel  Builtin
SSH Keys Setup  Yes
Total Number of Datacenters  7
Number of Datacenter Continents  3
Monitoring Charts  Yes

Network bandwidth, CPU usage, disk I/O.
Admin REST API  Yes

URL: https://developers.digitalocean.com/documentation/v2/
Upgrade VPS from admin console  Yes
Mobile Friendly UI  Yes
Accepted Forms of Payment  Credit cards, Paypal
Hidden CPU Model  No
Affiliate Program  Yes

In VPSBenchmark's opinion

Feature Value Comment
UI Friendliness 

Clean, modern, simple, full featured.
Quality of Service 

Very active DigitalOcean developer community, large variety of guides and tutorials.
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DigitalOcean Extra Services

In addition to features included in the VPS plan, DigitalOcean also offers the following services (possibly for a fee):

Backups   Block Storage   Object Storage   Load Balancer   Floating Ips  
Teams   Datastores Serverless Ddos Protection

Admin UI Screenshots


Cloud Storage Prices

For a comparison of storage features and prices from all providers, please check the Cloud Storage page.

Storage Type Price / GB / month Restriction Description
Block $0.100 Volumes are encrypted at rest, replicated multiple times and can be resized live.
https://www.digitalocean.com/products/block-storage/
Object $0.020 250GB minimum Object storage is called "Spaces" at DO.
$5 for 250GB/month that include 1TB of outbound transfer (CDN included)
https://www.digitalocean.com/products/spaces/
Backups $0.050 Prices vary depending on droplet size. Prices vary depending on droplet size: backups are 20% of droplet storage cost.
When backups are enabled, DO will create a disk image of the droplet once per week and will keep it for 4 weeks.
https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/images/backups/
Snapshots $0.050 Snapshots are created on users requests and are images of block storage disk volumes.
https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/images/snapshots/

DigitalOcean Plans


Plan Specifications

Url https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/
Cost Per Month $15.0
Hourly Billing true
Memory Gb 1.0
Disk Gb 60
Data Transfer Gb 3000
Num Cores 3
Virtualization KVM
Burstable No

Plan Grades

Grades are calculated by combining results from web, sysbench, endurance and remote timing tests.

Grade A is best, grade F is worst.

Follow the letter links to find the test results backing the grade.

How are grades calculated?

Web Performance Raw CPU Power Performance Stability Disk IO Performance Network Performance
C C C D B

Performance Test Results

We conducted 5 different types of tests for DigitalOcean - 1GB 3 cores. Review the results and compare this plan to its competitors.

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Test Results

This plan was tested 2 times at vpsbenchmarks.com. The table below shows all trials run on the 1GB 3 cores plan and the web response times for every one of those.

Start of Trial Web Results Sysbench Results Avg web response time P99 web response time
Jul 08 2018 Web Sysbench 76ms 282ms
Jan 22 2018 Web Sysbench 126ms 326ms

Plan Specifications

Url https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/
Cost Per Month $10.0
Hourly Billing true
Memory Gb 2.0
Disk Gb 50
Data Transfer Gb 2000
Num Cores 1
Virtualization KVM
Burstable No

Plan Grades

Grades are calculated by combining results from web, sysbench, endurance and remote timing tests.

Grade A is best, grade F is worst.

Follow the letter links to find the test results backing the grade.

How are grades calculated?

Web Performance Raw CPU Power Performance Stability Disk IO Performance Network Performance
D F C B D

Performance Test Results

We conducted 5 different types of tests for DigitalOcean - Standard 2GB 1 core. Review the results and compare this plan to its competitors.

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Test Results

This plan was tested 2 times at vpsbenchmarks.com. The table below shows all trials run on the Standard 2GB 1 core plan and the web response times for every one of those.

Start of Trial Web Results Sysbench Results Avg web response time P99 web response time
Aug 20 2018 Web Sysbench 96ms 320ms
Mar 21 2018 Web Sysbench 261ms 950ms

Plan Specifications

Url https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/
Cost Per Month $40.0
Hourly Billing true
Memory Gb 4.0
Disk Gb 25
Data Transfer Gb 4000
Num Cores 2
Virtualization KVM
Burstable No

Plan Grades

Grades are calculated by combining results from web, sysbench, endurance and remote timing tests.

Grade A is best, grade F is worst.

Follow the letter links to find the test results backing the grade.

How are grades calculated?

Web Performance Raw CPU Power Performance Stability Disk IO Performance Network Performance
A B B B C

Performance Test Results

We conducted 5 different types of tests for DigitalOcean - CPU Optimized 4GB. Review the results and compare this plan to its competitors.

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Test Results

This plan was tested 1 times at vpsbenchmarks.com. The table below shows all trials run on the CPU Optimized 4GB plan and the web response times for every one of those.

Start of Trial Web Results Sysbench Results Avg web response time P99 web response time
Apr 01 2018 Web Sysbench 50ms 226ms

Plan Specifications

Url https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/
Cost Per Month $5.0
Hourly Billing true
Memory Gb 1.0
Disk Gb 25
Data Transfer Gb 1000
Num Cores 1
Virtualization KVM
Burstable No

Plan Grades

Grades are calculated by combining results from web, sysbench, endurance and remote timing tests.

Grade A is best, grade F is worst.

Follow the letter links to find the test results backing the grade.

How are grades calculated?

Web Performance Raw CPU Power Performance Stability Disk IO Performance Network Performance
C D B D B

Performance Test Results

We conducted 5 different types of tests for DigitalOcean - Standard 1GB 1 core. Review the results and compare this plan to its competitors.

Web Test Sysbench Test Remote Timing Test Endurance Test Network Transfers
Review Review Review Review Review
Compare Compare Compare Compare Compare

Test Results

This plan was tested 2 times at vpsbenchmarks.com. The table below shows all trials run on the Standard 1GB 1 core plan and the web response times for every one of those.

Start of Trial Web Results Sysbench Results Avg web response time P99 web response time
Dec 03 2018 Web Sysbench 72ms 285ms
Apr 16 2018 Web Sysbench 81ms 270ms

Plan Specifications

Url https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/
Cost Per Month $20.0
Hourly Billing true
Memory Gb 4.0
Disk Gb 80
Data Transfer Gb 4000
Num Cores 2
Virtualization KVM
Burstable No

Plan Grades

Grades are calculated by combining results from web, sysbench, endurance and remote timing tests.

Grade A is best, grade F is worst.

Follow the letter links to find the test results backing the grade.

How are grades calculated?

Web Performance Raw CPU Power Performance Stability Disk IO Performance Network Performance
B B C B B

Performance Test Results

We conducted 5 different types of tests for DigitalOcean - Standard 4GB 2 cores. Review the results and compare this plan to its competitors.

Web Test Sysbench Test Remote Timing Test Endurance Test Network Transfers
Review Review Review Review Review
Compare Compare Compare Compare Compare

Test Results

This plan was tested 1 times at vpsbenchmarks.com. The table below shows all trials run on the Standard 4GB 2 cores plan and the web response times for every one of those.

Start of Trial Web Results Sysbench Results Avg web response time P99 web response time
Oct 25 2018 Web Sysbench 54ms 266ms

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