DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean is a web hosting provider based in New York City, USA, founded in 2000. As of 2026 it holds an HRI of 90/100, an exceptional signal, ranked independently by HostList with no paid placements.
DigitalOcean is a developer-focused cloud infrastructure provider built around Droplets, its Linux virtual private servers (VPS), with dedicated CPU plans, GPU Droplets for AI and machine learning workloads, managed Kubernetes, an App Platform, managed databases, and block and object storage. It targets developers, startups, and scaling businesses that want raw cloud compute with predictable, transparent pricing.
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What DigitalOcean Discloses
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- Entry plan price
- Refund window
- Site migration
- Verified coupon
- Status page
- Incident history feed
- Uptime SLA
- Ownership
- Legal entity
- Data residency
- GDPR DPA
- Datacenter regions
- Server stack
- Storage
- Security included
- Certifications
- Data centre model
- Backups
- Support
- Support languages
- Published plans
- Resource limits
- Renewable energy
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- YouTube
- Changelog
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What Customers Say About DigitalOcean
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What people are saying
Trustpilot★★★★★Professional support and fair account review“As a new customer, my account was initially placed under an activation review, which was understandably frustrating at first. However, after I contacted DigitalOcean Support and provided additional context about my intended use of the platform, my case was carefully reviewed by a real person rather than receiving…”
Trustpilot★★★★★Great support“Great support, a clean interface and no surprise costs—what's not to like?”
Trustpilot★★★★★DigitalOcean was what I expected and more...“The transparency on the billing and the easiness on how to get to aboard the usage and allocation of clusters. DigitalOcean gave me a pleasurable and easy to understand way to aboard my "adventure", to say it in a way, on the cloud computing and the Kubernetes experience. I'm paying what I'm using. Also, their…”
Trustpilot★★★★★DO customer support is very…Positive“DO customer support is very satisfactory. Thanks a lot to the support engineer who solved my problem.”
Trustpilot★★★★★DigitalOcean isn't just a business…“DigitalOcean isn't just a business entity to me. It's a family of professionals who are ready to support their customers whichever way necessary. Knowing that a business could go such an extra mile is a breeze. It's shows that I matter as a person above the financial transactions. And that's just on the side of…”
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DigitalOcean holds 42U across 5 racks, leading 1 of them. Rack space is allocated by rank alone and cannot be bought.
- Node.js Hosting16U · held 32 days
- Python Hosting10U · held 18 days
- GPU Hosting7U · held 33+ days
- Laravel Hosting5U · held 33+ days
- OpenClaw Hosting4U · held 24+ days
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<a href="https://hostlist.io/server-room" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://hostlist.io/api/server-room/badge?slug=digitalocean" alt="DigitalOcean holds 42U in the HostList Server Room" width="340" height="80" loading="lazy"></a>Longest hold: Node.js Hosting, held 32 days. The wall moves on the nightly HRI recompute, never on payment.
Where DigitalOcean Ranks
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Is DigitalOcean hiring?
Yes. DigitalOcean has 37 open roles listed on HostList as of September 2026, sourced from their public careers page. View current openings at hostlist.io/jobs/at/digitalocean or apply directly on DigitalOcean's website.
Is DigitalOcean a good web hosting company?
DigitalOcean has a HRI™ of 90/100 on HostList.io with a Google rating of 3.1/5 from 158 reviews, placing it among the better-rated providers in its category. HRI (HostList Ranking Index) is calculated algorithmically from trust signals, profile completeness, data freshness, and performance data, no provider can pay to improve it. A score of 90+ indicates an exceptional, highly verified provider.
What type of hosting company is DigitalOcean?
DigitalOcean is classified as a dedicated web hosting company on HostList.io. Use the HostMatch™ tool at hostlist.io/match to describe your project requirements and get a ranked recommendation from 30,000+ hosting providers including DigitalOcean.
Where is DigitalOcean based?
DigitalOcean is headquartered in New York City, USA. Hosting companies based in USA are listed at hostlist.io/hosting/usa.
How does DigitalOcean compare to other web hosting companies?
DigitalOcean can be compared to any other hosting provider using HostList.io's side-by-side comparison tool at hostlist.io/compare. The tool shows both providers' HRI™ breakdowns, sub-scores (Trust, Completeness, Freshness, Performance), and review data side by side. DigitalOcean has a current HRI of 90/100.
Does DigitalOcean offer coupons or discounts in September 2026?
DigitalOcean has no HostList-verified coupon code right now. Hosting providers commonly discount the first term of shared and WordPress plans, with the lowest prices on longer billing cycles. For codes checkout-verified across the market this month, see hostlist.io/deals/web-hosting-coupons, updated continuously.
- HostList verified Security contact (security.txt) for DigitalOcean from digitalocean.com
- DigitalOcean HRI 84 to 88, Performance up 4
- DigitalOcean HRI 70 to 84, Trust up 9, Completeness up 5
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What's Happening at DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean has resolved an issue that caused intermittent errors when accessing its Cloud Control Panel. The disruption, reported on its status page, affected some customers between 09:36 and 13:30 UTC on 3 August. DigitalOcean said the problem stemmed from expired internal certificates, which have since been renewed, restoring normal access to the panel.
DigitalOcean has identified a fault causing Agent Platform requests to return HTTP 500 errors. The issue was first flagged on 27 July at 18:31 UTC, with the cause identified by 19:44 UTC. A fix is being implemented, according to DigitalOcean's status page.
DigitalOcean has resolved a network connectivity issue affecting users in India accessing resources in its NYC region. The problem, which occurred between 07:46 UTC and 10:24 UTC on 24 July, was limited to users on the Airtel ISP. DigitalOcean said the cause was traced to an internal network issue.
DigitalOcean Now World's Second Largest Web Hosting Provider. **May 6, 2015 – New York, NY –** DigitalOcean, the fastest growing cloud infrastructure provider for developers, is now the second lar
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What People Say About DigitalOcean
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From the RunCloud control panel go to the Servers tab, then click Connect a new Server (top right), then choose DigitalOcean, and choose Build
Paid my bill on time every month. Got distracted with work and hadn't updated it in a while. One day I go to check on it and the site is down.
I've been a happy DigitalOcean customer for nearly 8 years, but I've been recently looking for a new provider as I felt the pricing for what I got wasn't a
I switched from Azure to DigitalOcean to Hetzner. Reasons were as you stated, simpler cost model, simpler technology.
In this case, the area in question is what Vultr calls "New Jersey" and Digital Ocean calls "NYC3". Total downtime was about 3 minutes.
It seems that my app deployed on the App Platform is triggering many alerts using DO's monitoring service and that the HTTPS latency and downtime is really
How DigitalOcean's Score Is Calculated
HRI is calculated algorithmically based on publicly available data. It considers trust signals (reviews, ratings), data completeness, freshness of information, and technical performance. No host can pay to improve their score.
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