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Comprehensive, cost-effective cloud computing

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Easily deploy and manage your Droplets

Interact with your Droplets how you want. Our intuitive UI, CLI, API, and Terraform Provider make it simple to manage your virtual machines.

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Reliably scale as your demand shifts

Resize a Droplet or scale horizontally with many of them. Deploy across globally distributed data centers each with our 99.99% uptime SLA.

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Build and monitor, and secure your apps for less

Get exceptional bandwidth pricing and 1TB per month of outbound data transfer—plus monitoring and firewalls—for free with every Droplet.

Simple enough for any user, powerful enough for fast-growing businesses

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Basic

For critical apps

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Premium

Upgrade to Premium Droplets for faster performing Intel, AMD processors, & NVMe SSDs.

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General Purpose

For critical apps

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Memory-Optimized

For RAM-intensive apps

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CPU-Optimized

For CPU-intensive apps

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Storage-Optimized

For extra large apps

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Most users start with Premium Droplets

We offer a wide range of shared and dedicated vCPU Droplets. Check out our recommendations for choosing the right Droplet for your workload.

Want an even simpler experience?

Try DigitalOcean’s App Platform to deploy and scale your apps without managing any infrastructure.

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Basic virtual machine costs

Easy, fast, and flexible compute built for a range of needs.
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2 CPU
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    DigitalOcean

    $4
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    GCP

    $6.11
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    AWS

    $8.50
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    Azure

    $7.59
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    DigitalOcean

    $18
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    GCP

    $12
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    AWS

    $15.23
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    Azure

    $15.11
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    DigitalOcean

    $48
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    GCP

    $111
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    AWS

    $60.91
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    Azure

    $15.11
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    DigitalOcean

    $96
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    GCP

    $221
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    AWS

    $121.81
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    Azure

    $121.18

Do more with tools to help you save time

Monitoring

Collect metrics on visibility, monitor Droplet performance, and get alerts when problems arise in your infra—at no additional cost.

Cloud Firewalls

Easily help secure your infrastructure with free Cloud Firewalls and define what services are visible on your Droplets. Perfect for staging and production deployments.

Team management

Securely and efficiently collaborate on projects with unlimited users, get two-factor authentication, and have all of your projects on a single bill.

Backups

Backups are disk images of your Droplets created automatically once per week, priced at 20% of the cost of the Droplet.

Snapshots

Snapshots are on-demand disk images of your Droplets that you can keep indefinitely and use them to create new Droplets.

Volumes Block Storage

Attach secure and scalable SSD-based Block Storage to your Droplet when you need more storage space and not the additional processing power that a larger, more expensive Droplet might provide.

Spaces Object Storage

Store and deliver vast amounts of content with S3-compatible Spaces Object Storage with a built-in CDN to minimize page load times, improve performance, and reduce bandwidth and infrastructure costs.

Load Balancers

Distribute incoming traffic across a group of Droplets and increase your application’s availability with Load Balancers—a highly available, fully managed service.

Reserved IPs

Avoid single points of failure by assigning publicly-accessible static IP addresses to Droplets that allow you to redirect network traffic between any of your Droplets within the same datacenter.

Deploy your Droplet with any of these available distributions

Distributions

Deploy your Droplet to the distribution you prefer

Pre-installed apps

Deploy your Droplet to the distribution you prefer

Custom images

Upload your customized OS or virtual appliance and make it simple to migrate and scale your preferred environment to the Cloud.

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Ubuntu

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Rocky Linux

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Debian

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Fedora

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CentOS

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MongoDB

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Wordpress

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Lamp

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NodeJS

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Docker

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MySQL

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DigitalOcean helps Zuar gain a competitive advantage with consistent pricing

“I have used other cloud providers in the past but DigitalOcean is my cloud of choice moving forward. It has the performance and reliability that we need for growing our business.”

—Matthew Laue, CTO

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Kea, an AI startup, uses DigitalOcean Droplets to pivot and scale

“I have used other cloud providers in the past but DigitalOcean is my cloud of choice moving forward. It has the performance and reliability that we need for growing our business.”

—Matthew Laue, CTO

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DigitalOcean supports Atom Learning's adaptive online learning platform

“I have used other cloud providers in the past but DigitalOcean is my cloud of choice moving forward. It has the performance and reliability that we need for growing our business.”

—Matthew Laue, CTO

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Frequently asked questions

DigitalOcean Droplets are Linux-based virtual machines (VMs) that run on top of virtualized hardware. Each Droplet you create is a new server you can use, either standalone or as part of a larger,

Choosing the right Droplet plan depends on your workload. Please refer to this article that explains the differences between shared and dedicated CPUs, and goes into detail on each Droplet plan.

Yes. Resizing a Droplet, also known as vertical scaling, increases the amount of resources a Droplet has. There are two resizing options for Droplets:

  • CPU and RAM only. This option lets you increase or decrease the amount of CPU and RAM available to a Droplet.
  • Disk, CPU, and RAM. This option increases the amount of CPU and RAM available to a Droplet and permanently increases the size of a Droplet’s disk.

Here are some considerations you should take into account before you resize the Droplets.

DigitalOcean provides a 99.99% uptime SLA for both Droplets and Volumes Block Storage.