DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean is a publicly listed cloud provider best known for Droplets, its VPS product, alongside managed databases, Kubernetes and an app platform.
www.digitalocean.compricingstatus
Virtual machines, billed by the second.
Taught a generation of developers what a server actually costs.What a heart means here
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 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.
Identity
- Founded
- 20125
- Favorite
- yes
- Ownership
- Publicly listed6
- Status
- Active
Regions and law
- Regions
- United States, Netherlands, Singapore, United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, India, Australia10
- Headquarters
- United States7
Other features
Sources
- 2026-08-12: Test domain
docs.digitalocean.com/docs/app-platform/reference/app-spec - 2026-08-12: Staging, Collaboration
www.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform - 2026-08-12: Domain registration
docs.digitalocean.com/products/networking/dns/ - 2026-08-01: Starting price, Entry price, Typical ceiling, Currencies, Billed, Pricing model, Minimum contract, Backups
www.digitalocean.com/pricing/droplets - 2026-07-31: Founded
www.digitalocean.com/about - 2026-07-31: Ownership
investors.digitalocean.com/overview/default.aspx - 2026-07-31: Headquarters
www.digitalocean.com/company - 2026-08-02: Paid
docs.digitalocean.com/platform/billing/ - 2026-08-02: Exit
www.digitalocean.com/legal/terms-of-service-agreement - 2026-07-31: Regions
docs.digitalocean.com/platform/regional-availability/ - 2026-07-31: Managed databases
www.digitalocean.com/products/managed-databases - 2026-07-31: Persistent storage
docs.digitalocean.com/products/droplets/details/features/ - 2026-07-31: API, CLI, MCP, Infrastructure as code
docs.digitalocean.com/reference/ - 2026-07-31: Use cases, Audience
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Last reviewed 2026-08-12.
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