Digital Ocean is a new VPS company which has gained a lot of popularity in a very small time span (recently, it crossed the 400k+ servers).

Current Promo Code : DODROPLET for $10 credit (worth two months of free hosting).

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Well, there are lots of VPS providers, what makes Digital Ocean so awesome ? I’ve been using Digital Ocean for around 5 months (for my web applications/Ruby on Rails Apps, e.g one is PC Builder) and here are few reasons – why Digital Ocean is one of the best VPS provider.

Why Digital Ocean is Awesome ?

  1. Very affordable price (plan starts at $5/month)
  2. Offers more than its competitors – 512MB RAM, 20GB SSD, 1TB Bandwidth, Automated Backups/Snapshots – all at $5/mo
  3. Easy to launch/manage servers with its nice Dashboard
  4. Great customer support (the average response time for a support ticket is less than 15 minutes – vow!!)
  5. Advanced Features, easy to use APIs (for managing servers, you don’t have to login to their control panel)
  6. Even if you’re a noob, you can easily learn all stuffs, they have awesome tutorials available in DO Community
  7. it’s a reliable company, backed by awesome team in NYC, they are not going anywhere.
  8. Login to your servers via ssh and you Have full control over your VPS
  9. Zero Downtime -If you use Digital Ocean, your servers are up no matter what. (In past 5 months, I never faced even a single downtime)
  10. Create backups easily using snapshots or automated backup feature. (creating manual snapshot is free but automated backup costs a little). You can also spin up new servers (in minutes) using your snapshots.

Hosting Plans available at Digital Ocean

If you’re starting out, the starting plan @ $5/month would work fine. You get 512MB RAM, 20GB SSD, 1TB Bandwidth. They also bills on Hourly basis, you can use either monthly or hourly plan – depending on your need. Another plan is $10/mo – for which you get 1GB RAM, 30GB SSD and 2TB data transfer, and so on.

checkout their website for larger plans

So, what are you waiting for ? 

Whether you want to Deploy a Web Applications (Ruby On Rails, Django, node.js etc) or a Blog or simple website – Digital Ocean would work great. You can get started now – (no credit card is required! try test mode)

Get a VPS at Digital Ocean

Current Promo Code : DODROPLET for $10 credit (worth two months of free hosting).

Update! Now, they’ve updated the dashboard and added few more features like Resource usage graph, new data center location for servers (also in asia region) and so. Added a promo code. Also added a video.

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5 Comments

  1. Thanks for your nice writeup! Awesome to have you as one of our biggest advocates!

  2. I signed up for their starter plan, everything looks good, the price to performance ratio is great 🙂

  3. CPU core is less as compared to Linode, but Cheap RAM plus SSD makes it a killer deal 🙂

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