# DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean is a publicly listed cloud provider best known for Droplets, its VPS product, alongside managed databases, Kubernetes and an app platform.


Source: https://www.findhost.app/digitalocean/
Last checked against the provider: 2026-08-12

## Record

### Links

- home: https://www.digitalocean.com
- pricing: https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/droplets
- status: https://status.digitalocean.com
- x: https://twitter.com/digitalocean
- linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/digitalocean/
- github: https://github.com/digitalocean
- facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DigitalOceanCloudHosting
- youtube: https://www.youtube.com/DigitalOcean
- discord: https://discord.gg/digitalocean

### Identity

- founded: 2012
- headcount: unknown
- favorite: yes
- ownership: public
- parent: unknown
- status: active

### Classification

- category: vps, paas
- whoManagesOs: self-managed
- infraContract: unknown
- runsOn: unknown
- cdnFrom: unknown
- useCases: ai-app
- audience: startup, smb, enterprise
- wikidata: unknown

### Tech stack

- runtimes: any
- software: unknown
- specialisation: unknown
- sshAccess: root
- managedDatabases: postgres, mysql, mongodb, valkey, opensearch, kafka
- gpuCapacity: unknown
- persistentStorage: yes
- backupsIncluded: paid-addon

### Deployment

- deployMethods: unknown

### Pricing

- pricingModel: hourly
- priceFrom: xs
- entryPrice: {"amount":4,"currency":"USD","period":"month"}
- priceTo: xl
- currencies: USD
- billingPeriods: hourly, monthly
- billingTiming: arrears
- exitWithin: a-day
- renewalMultiple: unknown
- freeTier: unknown
- contractMinimum: none

### Regions and law

- regions: US, NL, SG, GB, DE, CA, IN, AU
- hqCountry: US
- gdprDpa: unknown

### Other features

- energyClaim: unknown
- certifications: unknown
- greenWebId: unknown
- domainRegistration: none
- dnsHosting: unknown
- emailHosting: unknown
- cdnIncluded: unknown
- testDomain: included
- collaboration: team
- staging: included

### Support

- supportChannels: unknown
- supportHours: unknown
- supportTiering: unknown

### Automation

- mcpServer: official
- cliTool: official
- apiAvailable: public
- iacSupport: terraform, ansible

### Sources

- testDomain: https://docs.digitalocean.com/docs/app-platform/reference/app-spec (read 2026-08-12)
- staging: https://www.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform (read 2026-08-12)
- collaboration: https://www.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform (read 2026-08-12)
- domainRegistration: https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/networking/dns/ (read 2026-08-12)
- entryPrice: https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/droplets (read 2026-08-01)
- founded: https://www.digitalocean.com/about (read 2026-07-31)
- ownership: https://investors.digitalocean.com/overview/default.aspx (read 2026-07-31)
- hqCountry: https://www.digitalocean.com/company (read 2026-07-31)
- priceFrom: https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/droplets (read 2026-07-31)
- priceTo: https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/droplets (read 2026-08-02)
- currencies: https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/droplets (read 2026-08-02)
- billingPeriods: https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/droplets (read 2026-08-02)
- billingTiming: https://docs.digitalocean.com/platform/billing/ (read 2026-08-02)
- exitWithin: https://www.digitalocean.com/legal/terms-of-service-agreement (read 2026-08-02)
- pricingModel: https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/droplets (read 2026-07-31)
- contractMinimum: https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/droplets (read 2026-07-31)
- backupsIncluded: https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/droplets (read 2026-07-31)
- regions: https://docs.digitalocean.com/platform/regional-availability/ (read 2026-07-31)
- managedDatabases: https://www.digitalocean.com/products/managed-databases (read 2026-07-31)
- persistentStorage: https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/droplets/details/features/ (read 2026-07-31)
- apiAvailable: https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/ (read 2026-07-31)
- cliTool: https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/ (read 2026-07-31)
- mcpServer: https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/ (read 2026-07-31)
- iacSupport: https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/ (read 2026-07-31)
- useCases: https://www.digitalocean.com/ (read 2026-07-31)
- audience: https://www.digitalocean.com/ (read 2026-07-31)

## Notes

DigitalOcean Holdings, Inc. trades on the New York Stock Exchange as DOCN. It started with a single product — the Droplet, a virtual private server — and has since added block storage, managed databases, managed Kubernetes, object storage, serverless functions and an application platform. It acquired [Cloudways](/cloudways/) in 2022.

Droplets are billed per second against fixed plan rates, with a one-minute minimum charge. Backups are a paid add-on priced as a percentage of the Droplet cost, and block storage, load balancers and managed database clusters are metered separately, so a Droplet's plan rate is not the whole bill. The tooling is documented in one place: a public REST API, the open-source `doctl` CLI, a Terraform provider, Ansible modules and a set of MCP servers.

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