DigitalOcean Cloud

DigitalOcean is a cloud infrastructure provider founded by Ben Uretsky and Moisey Uretsky in 2012, headquartered in New York City, providing simple, developer-friendly cloud computing services including virtual private servers called Droplets, managed Kubernetes, managed databases, object storage, and container registries, targeting individual developers, startups, and small to medium businesses with transparent pricing starting at four dollars per month, adopted by over six hundred thousand customers including GitLab, Slack, HashiCorp, and Docker for their infrastructure needs, listed on the New York Stock Exchange since 2021. The Droplets are virtual machines available in shared CPU, dedicated CPU, memory-optimized, storage-optimized, and GPU configurations, with provisioning in under one minute, IPv6 support, private networking, floating IPs, reserved IPs, snapshots, custom images, and user data initialization scripts, enabling developers to quickly deploy and scale applications with predictable per-hour billing and no hidden fees or complex pricing tiers. The App Platform provides a fully managed platform as a service that automatically builds, deploys, and scales applications from source code or container images, supporting Node.js, Python, Go, PHP, Ruby, Java, static sites, and Docker containers, with automatic SSL certificates, custom domains, horizontal and vertical scaling, and zero-downtime deployments through a simple Git push or GitHub integration. The managed databases provide automated PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, and Kafka clusters with automated daily backups, point-in-time recovery, automated failover with standby nodes, and connection pooling. The Kubernetes service provides managed clusters. The Spaces object storage with CDN. The volumes for block storage. The load balancers. Designed for developers and startups.