# Page 3 | DigitalOcean Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Page 3 - Is DigitalOcean the right Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solution for you? Explore 158 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/205055/DigitalOcean/reviews --- DigitalOcean 4.6 (158) [View alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/205055/DigitalOcean/alternatives/) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated March 13th, 2026 # Page 3 - Reviews of DigitalOcean ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 51-75 of 158 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use Burak O. Ph.D. Student Civil Engineering Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Affordable but has some problems" August 25, 2022 4.0 My overall experience with them is good but I suggest DigitalOcean users to back up their droplets frequently to another service provider. If they lock your account, the customer service is hard to reach and if they wouldn't restore your access, you are risking losing your data. Pros The user interface is really easy to use, with a few clicks it allows you to create a droplet across the globe. Also, it is easy to manage access controls and overall network/firewall rules. They provide affordable S3 like data storage solution called "Spaces". If you are switching from Amazon S3, the best thing about Spaces is it compatible with official S3 libraries which eliminates the implementation process as you can use the same infrastructure for Spaces too. Cons They should revise Spaces product page/documentation. I had to reach customer support to verify that spaces is just a subscription service so it comes with unlimited buckets. This information is not provided on their product page. Also, their customer service is really hard to reach, and they are not helpful. The worst thing about their service is their automated bots. They can lock your account without a valid reason, and it really hard to convince them to undo it. Alternatives considered [Vultr](https://www.capterra.com/p/228645/Vultr/) Reason for choosing DigitalOcean The control panel of DigitalOcean is better than Vultr. Review Source Samuel Isaí R. Fullstack dev Computer Software Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "from good to perfect" August 26, 2023 4.0 Digital ocean was my first IaaS and it is so easy to start learning how it works, i have deploy 4 backend servers and i feel confortable when i think of creating more of them in digital ocean, so the only thing that is left is funtions (like AWS with lambda funtions) Pros I love GUI, how easy it´s to deploy a react app with a droplet o a backend with nodejs Cons I had some issues with my spaces and contacted customer service around 3 time and they didn´t give a solution Alternatives considered [Amazon S3](https://www.capterra.com/p/174285/Amazon-S3/) Reason for choosing DigitalOcean just because i did understand digital ocean docs more than AWS docs and pricing Review Source KD Kunal D. Consultant Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Best Cloud Hosting for Developers with Wonderful User Interface and Tutorials" June 25, 2021 5.0 Overall I am quite happy with the way DigitalOcean is. Currently my site is hosted on DigitalOcean and loads quickly. A faster loading site means more visitors and more visitors means more income generating possibilities. Spinning new servers from images save lot of time. Pros Things that I like about DigitalOcean are 1) You get power of cloud computing at some discount compared to Amazon and Google. 2) Nice and intuitive dashboard. 3) You can provision new servers in around 60 seconds. 4) Developer friendly. 5) Ability to collaborate with teams. 6) Predictable pricing. 7) Scale up as you grow. 8) Can enable IPv6 for the server. 9) Get to know various monitoring metrics like CPU and RAM consumption, disk usage, bandwidth consumption in the dashboard at a minimal interval of 5 minutes. You can see these usage for last 14 days. 10) Take backups and snapshots incase of anything goes wrong. 11) Easy to configure Firewall. 12) Can increase disk space easily by adding Block Storage to the droplets. 13) DigitalOceans Spaces can be used to offload static files for as low as $5 for 1TB CDN bandwidth and reduce load on server. 14) DigitalOcean has one of the best knowledge base and how to articles to get you started or get out if you are stuck. 15) Create alerts to receive email notification 16) Get email notification when monthly spending reaches your defined threshold. Cons Things that I don't like about DigitalOcean are 1) You have to turn off the droplet to scale up or scale down. 2) Information regarding DDoS attacks on droplets should also me made available in the control panel. 3) Backups and Snapshots costs extra and are pricy. 4) Does not accept prepaid cards for payments. Review Source Harshit C. Intern Computer & Network Security Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Techie’s best choice " February 11, 2022 5.0 I am using digitalocean since 3 years I an extremely satisfied Pros The software comes with a free one year subscription if you have github pro which is insanely good and the power and speed the virtual machines have i think no other machines have in the world Cons The product is designed in such a way leaves no cons back Alternatives considered [Amazon S3](https://www.capterra.com/p/174285/Amazon-S3/) Reason for choosing DigitalOcean Price range and quality Review Source GV German V. Affiliate Marketer E-Learning Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Un proveedor en la nube economico y confiable" December 5, 2023 4.0 En general mi experiencia con DigitalOcean ha sido muy buena, la plataforma te ofrece de forma bien estructurada todas las opciones para poder gestionar y desplegar tus aplicaciones o sitios web. Me ha resultado muy util sobre todo cuando creo algunos sitios webs de prueba y me ha ido perfecto, ademas del ahorro en costos que he tenido usando estos servidores. Pros Lo que mas me gusta de DigitalOcean es que puedes establecer un plan de pago dependiendo de los recursos que necesites, por lo que puede resultar muy econmico y accesible, ademas de que ofrece una amplia variedad de metodos de pago para elegir el mas conveniente. Cons Basicante el unico aspecto donde DigitalOcean decae es en el apartado de Soporte y Atencion al Cliente, ya que es bastante lento y demora muchas veces en responder. Este es uno de los aspesctos donde deben mejorar. Switched from [Microsoft Azure](https://www.capterra.com/p/16365/Azure/) Me resulta mas facil de manejar DigitalOcean Review Source FD Fernando D. CTO and General Manager Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "A great place to start and for small projects" November 19, 2023 5.0 We love DigitalOcean, whenever we need to deploy something small or test some new things in the wild, it is our go-to option. Pros It's cheap, easy to use, easy to set up and the uptime and documentation is amazing. Cons As more resources are needed and/or the project works, maybe a more managed solution could be a better option, higher tiers are not as much of a value for your money. Alternatives considered [Vultr](https://www.capterra.com/p/228645/Vultr/)[Kinsta](https://www.capterra.com/p/234135/Kinsta/)[Linode](https://www.capterra.com/p/210618/Linode/) Reason for choosing DigitalOcean Our development team had ample experience with DigitalOcean and the price was great. Review Source JL Josh L. IT Support Agent Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Great Service for being in control of our own servers" November 29, 2023 5.0 It has been good and I see no reason to think of moving. Service is great, price is good too. Pros I like that they provide inexpensive virtual machine hosting and allow for complete control over it. You can resize machines quite easily, make snapshots of VM's control firewall settings etc. Cons It is not always easy to find the section you are looking for but a quick google helps easily. Review Source Coral M. Programador informatico Computer Software Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "DigitalOcean un VPS totalmente recomendable " January 28, 2023 5.0 Mi experiencia general es bastante buena, es un servidor que yo lo he utilizado para alojar mis webs y en el tiempo que llevo utilizandolo no me ha dado nigun tipo de probelma, ademas los precios son bastantes competitivos Pros Lo que mas me ha gustado es su panel de control para manejar el servidor y lo facil que es su uso.Mi uso de digital ocean ha sido para instalar varias webs y para eso funciona perfectamente. Cons Para mi es mas comlplicado de utilizar que otros servidores que he utilizado anteriormente, por lo demas estoy bastante contenta con DigitalOcean Alternatives considered [Microsoft Azure](https://www.capterra.com/p/16365/Azure/) Reason for choosing DigitalOcean Lo elegi porque queria cambiar de servidor y vi que tenia muy buenas reseñas lo que hizo que me inclinara mas por este servidor Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Systems Support Engineer - Managed Services Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Affordable Cloud computing environment" July 31, 2021 5.0 We have deployed grade auctioning platform on digital ocean. Application workload is too heavy on some days. But digitlocean still could manage the workload smoothly. We also deployed few smaller size applications and smaller TPS db instances on smallest droplets. So the can have cost benefit here. I can definitely recommend DigitalOcena to anyone. Pros +Affordable pricings. +Deployments are super fast and easy. +Support Microservices architecture +DNS management is very convenient. +Droplets backups can be configured for small amount. Cons \+ I/O problems in smaller droplets. + Network security cannot be implemented to the deeper level. + Limitation on custom images (ex. Cannot have more than 100GB image, cannot assign floating IP) Reason for choosing DigitalOcean Digitalocean has unmatchable pricing comparing to top vendors so we decide to go with DigitalOCean Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Founder Marketing and Advertising Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Deploying Linux or open-source software? Use DigitalOcean" June 28, 2020 5.0 In a word -- superb on all fronts -- as an example, we were replicating a certain image type that wouldn't work -- any time we'd load the image on a new box, it would fail. It turned out to be a very specific issue around the length of the image name on a specific Debian release -- the DigitalOcean support team figured it out, and looped back with us, long after we'd simply rebuilt the image. Pros The most amazingly refreshing platform to use in a long time, especially for back-end work. We'd switched from AWS, which was incredibly cumbersome to administer. Cons We sometimes have had to migrate between data centers because the machines we wanted in the data center in which we already had nodes didn't have the same node available for scaling. Alternatives considered [Firebase](https://www.capterra.com/p/160941/Firebase/)[Amazon EC2](https://www.capterra.com/p/219781/EC2/) Reason for choosing DigitalOcean at the time, price and ease of administration Switched from [Amazon EC2](https://www.capterra.com/p/219781/EC2/) at the time, price and ease of administration Review Source GB Greg B. Director Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Simplicity without compromising features" September 3, 2020 4.0 I switched to Digital Ocean from AWS after a long and considered research phase. The problems I wanted to avoid were 1) unpredictable pricing, 2) vendor tie-in, 3) difficult to get performance without just paying more. With Digital Ocean, all of the above points were hit, and I feel totally control of my company's digital infrastructure. Pros With Digital Ocean, you get exactly what you pay for. Unlike other cloud providers, if you pay for a server with X capacity, you get exactly that, without any secret charges or "token" based performance. The pricing is predictable and the decisions are made simple. On top of this, the web-based user interface is well thought out and allows you to organise your servers into teams and projects. Each team can have separate billing but it is all predictable. Cons The web admin user interface is a little slow and clunky at times. It does the job, and is pleasant to look at, but seeing an animation of a shark swimming every time you click a button is common. I can't knock the functionality, but the way the web application has been built means that every action requires a loading animation, which can really get in the way of the task at hand. Alternatives considered [Google Cloud](https://www.capterra.com/p/268690/Google-Cloud-Platform/) Reason for choosing DigitalOcean Simplicity, with the tools available to scale when needed. Switched from [Amazon EC2](https://www.capterra.com/p/219781/EC2/) Unpredictable pricing, complex and unpredictable performance of servers, vendor tie-in Review Source Ngala Emmanuel S. Web Designer Graphic Design Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "It offers incredible VPS hosting with poor customer services" September 14, 2023 5.0 It's a great product for fast and reliable web hosting. Digital Ocean is suitable for hosting standards for large websites and applications. I like it because it provides a great site performance score and also provides full controllability. Pros What I like about Digital Ocean is that:- I only pay for the resources that I use. While several other hosting providers will urge clients to go in for long-term hosting, Digital Ocean enables clients to only pay for what they use. This is pretty transparent if you ask me.- It's easy to use: While this may make sense to some people, Digital Ocean has one of the most simple and ease-to-use workspaces. Features are well allocated and they are not even supercharged. It makes it easy to locate an item without hassles.- It uses solid-state drives which are way faster than the usual storage most companies offer.- iT various droplets which are easy to configure and can also be deployed Cons The reasons why I stopped using Digital Ocean is that:- After three months of hosting, the system started refusing my prepaid visa card meanwhile I'd been using it in the previous months without stress when I reached out to the support team they took a longer time to respond and didn't solve the problem. They suggested that I should try paying via Paypal and there was an extra $10 that got added to the initial fees that I was to pay. At a point, it made no sense to me.- Secondly, all services are self-managed. Although it somehow gives full controllability what about beginners who have little knowledge of cloud computing or similar products? they won't make it.- Fast support comes at an extra cost. This is not a good model - It makes no sense to reduce subscription fees to later ask me to pay for support. It's not even common in today's business world. Please consider upgrading. Review Source Álvaro M. Freelance Marketing and Advertising Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Una herramienta muy completa y que facilita enormemente tu trabajo y productividad en la nube" May 17, 2023 5.0 Mi opinión sobre la herramienta es realmente buena, me ha sorprendido lo fácil de utilizar que es, junto con la seguridad y confianza que ofrece en su uso diario. Me ha encantado Pros Su facilidad de uso y su interfaz es realmente fácil de utilizar y práctica. Los planes de precios están realmente claros de antemano Cons Estaría genial mejorar algunas cosas como los tiempos de espera en el caso de precisar de atención al cliente, con algunas respuesta algo más detalladas Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Founder Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great cloud service, one of the best" July 13, 2023 5.0 Pros I use DigitalOcean for many of my projects for about 5 years already. I'm very happy with the different features and support DigitalOcean provides. My most used feature is DigitalOcean apps. This is a great and easy way to run your projects without the need to configure virtual servers. Cons One important limitation is that DigitalOcean uses CloudFlare so the request time is limited to 100 seconds and this can't be changed. You will get a timeout after this time. Because of this limitation, I'm using Google Cloud Run for one of my API. Review Source Christian K. Programmer Analyst Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Great Cloud Provider" June 9, 2022 5.0 I use DigitalOcean for deploying and hosting a few web applications. A couple of them are with collaboration with a designer or another developer. Setting up new instances of different products is easy and deploying is a breeze. Pros Very easy to use - can get started pretty quickly with little to no training. Cons Parts of the dashboard UI differ too much, making the products that are different harder to find things for configuration. Reason for choosing DigitalOcean Scalability, reliability, and cost. Switched from [Heroku](https://www.capterra.com/p/158191/Heroku/) Mainly the integrations of Git - GitLab to be specific. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Project Manager Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "DigitalOcean Review " December 10, 2023 4.0 Pros DigitalOcean is easy to use because of user-friendly interface. It provide own hosting panel along with virtual machines and allow for complete control over it. You can enable IPv6 for the server also easily Firewall configure can be done. The service I like most is that it support Micro-services architecture. Cons There are few issue in email services. Expensive backup so I fell little expensive Review Source OI Omer I. Manager Airlines/Aviation Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Terrible hosting!" July 27, 2022 1.0 I have used Digital Ocean for more than 2 years and I regret it. I started over the recommendation of our freelancer, but in 2 years, I always had a hard time, from setting up, to managing, to backup, and performance, everything was very hard and confusing for me. And whenever I had a problem and opened a ticket, I only received automated responses and never heard from a real person answering my messages! In the end, one of my sites was hacked because of Digital Ocean and they didn't even bother to respond to me for anything at all! I finally pulled the plug and changed to another hosting provider which I am happy with! So, in short, if you are not a genius with IT, stay away from Digital Ocean. Or if you use, pray that you will not have any problems and will need technical support, because if you do, support will be nowhere to be found! Stay away at all costs! You will regret it! Pros nothing, nothing at all! I didnt like anyting at all. Cons Stay away at all costs! You will regret it! Review Source PP Piotr P. Owner Internet Used the software for: 2+ years ### "A good place for your VPS" December 6, 2021 5.0 We use DigitalOcean for a couple of years now to maintain our websites. It keeps running with no issues, so we are pleased with that outcome. Pros Very easy to create, backup and replicate VPS servers. Everything is in the right place and the web panel is very user friendly. Pricing for newly created servers is very clear and fair. Cons Sometimes you need to get to the console, do the research and set up something, but it's VPS so you kind of agreed to that Alternatives considered [OVHcloud](https://www.capterra.com/p/229589/OVHcloud/) Reason for choosing DigitalOcean Recommendation Switched from [OVHcloud](https://www.capterra.com/p/229589/OVHcloud/) DigitalOcean was recommended by our DevOps Review Source oscar M. CEO Marketing and Advertising Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Uso DigitalOcean desde hace años y funciona como un reloj suizo" December 3, 2022 5.0 Estoy realmente contenido. Lo uso desde hace años y siempre genial Pros Digitalocean es de las herramientas más confiables que uso. Lo he usado para alojar webs en el pasado y ahora para alojar N8N y funciona perfecto. Cons DigitalOcean no es para todo el mundo. Requiere ciertos conocimientos técnicos porque tienes que instalar todo por linea de comandos. Si eso no es un problema para ti Digitalocean te encantará Alternatives considered [Linode](https://www.capterra.com/p/210618/Linode/) Reason for choosing DigitalOcean Por la comunidad y la versatilidad Review Source Ajay S I. Web Dev Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Digital Ocean is really an ocean" July 23, 2021 5.0 It's awesome and hopefully will be awesome. It's IaaS service i loved the most. Pros it's reliability is awesome and worls very awesome. Pricing also cheap. So we consider and refer to other. Cons Support system should be empowered to best level as other are having advanced system for support to customers. Alternatives considered [Linode](https://www.capterra.com/p/210618/Linode/)[Google Cloud](https://www.capterra.com/p/268690/Google-Cloud-Platform/) Reason for choosing DigitalOcean Every platform have their own features and so does digital ocean Review Source VR Verified Reviewer CEO Retail Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Worst company ever, losing data" January 21, 2023 1.0 Worst Pros It was having good UI but that is not enough at all. Cons After upgrading my managed database it is losing a few days of data and networking not working, so my platform is unreachable and no solution already 2 days. Review Source Juanito O. Desarrollador Web Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Un aliado imprescindible" July 20, 2021 5.0 Me encanta DigitalOcean, es muy escalable, tiene precios flexibles para desarrollar tu carrera en desarrollo de software en la nube. Puedes ofrecer servicios de deploy u hosting para proyectos web. Pros Me encanta el portafolio de servicios que tiene DigitalOcean, no importa si estás estudiando o desarrollando una aplicación para producción, DigitalOcean es tu gran aliado. Cons Como es un servicio cloud computing, requiere de ciertas habilidades que debes desarrollar para usar los servicios. Aunque también con un conocimiento básico puedes desplegar tus aplicaciones. Reason for choosing DigitalOcean Ofrece múltiples opciones de cloud computing, tanto para proyectos pequeños y grandes. Es muy escalable y tiene precios muy accesibles. Review Source Pedro L. consultant Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Computación en la nube" February 22, 2023 5.0 He usado DigitalOcean para desplegar aplicaciones en la nube y la experiencia es más que buena, tanto a nivel de rendimiento, seguridad así como su servicio técnico. Pros Es muy escalable, puedes adaptar tus aplicaciones a las necesidades e ir ampliando o reduciendo recursos y así ahorrar dinero. Puedes desplegar muchos tipos de aplicaciones y en diferentes tecnologías. Cons No he encontrado puntos negativos, lo único es que necesitas tener algunos conocimientos técnicos para poder usar el servicio y sacarle todo el partido que ofrece. Review Source MZ Musa Z. System Engineering Technical Specialist Banking Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Impressive and reliable way to accelerate growth." January 2, 2024 5.0 Cost effective and user friendly software. Best for all. Pros DigitalOcean has unique and very relatable features which are key ingredients to building a lasting customer experience. It is quite cost effective and simple to use. The customer support team has been very active in assisting us in setting up the tool. Web hosting and VPS hosting are made effortless. DigitalOcean is a great idea. Cons DigitalOcean is good. Nothing is challenging especially with prior knowledge on similar tools. Review Source Rosana G. teacher and manager Education Management Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Alojamiento web fiable y fácil de mantener" May 2, 2023 4.0 Mi experiencia con DigitalOcean ha sido bastante grata. La plataforma es muy fácil de usar, no es excesivamente cara y ofrece un gran rendimiento. Pros la plataforma de DigitalOcean es muy intuitiva y fácil de usar. Ofrece un gran rendimiento y velocidad en sus servidores y apicaciones web. Los precios son muy competitivos y no hay que hacer un gran gasto para mantener las aplicaciones web. Cons Por poner alguna pega, el soporte técnico en algunos casos tardan en responder a las consultas. Review Source Similar Products Featured