DigitalOcean Review 2021 – Real Pros And Cons Of This Cloud Hosting!

Check what hosting experts have to share about this cloud hosting provider. Read our complete DigitalOcean Review 2021 here.DigitalOcean is a USA based Cloud Web Hosting provider founded in 2000….

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Sarath Bhaskar

Updated on June 15, 2021

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Check what hosting experts have to share about this cloud hosting provider. Read our complete DigitalOcean Review 2021 here.

DigitalOcean is a USA based Cloud Web Hosting provider founded in 2000. It is running on a Web based/API platform and they are considered as a revolutionary Cloud Hosting provider with fully active services and well modified Infrastructure.

They are very efficient, responsive and scale able. This Digital Ocean Review will tell you more about their Plans, features, capabilities, Pros and Cons. The details given in this digital ocean review is based on the testing done for the last two years.

We have hosted a test website with Digital Ocean to bring you a inch by inch DigitalOcean Review.

There are many cloud web hosting providers out there. But what makes Digital Ocean so famous and why it becomes so successful?

DigitalOcean Cloud Hosting Features

Contents Of This Review

DigitalOcean allows users to move the domains and data onto DigitalOcean reliable cloud environment so easily.
User data is fully secured with Digital Ocean. They also provides 24×7 back up to the Infrastructure of users.
Even their basic Cloud plan allows user to get a full fledged cloud Environment of Digital Ocean Web Hosting. It will cost you just 5 dollars.
If a user needs a customized cloud plan, Digital Ocean always has a plan for them.
Server Resizing option is an additional perk for those who feel to get a bit more space for their domain from each server
They have 24×7 Customer support to help their customers to resolve if they met any issue.

DigitalOcean Server Locations

New York City: United States
Toronto : Canada
San Francisco : United States
London : United Kingdom

Amsterdam : Netherlands
Frankfurt : Germany
Singapore : Malaysia
Bangalore : India

DigitalOcean Review – Plans and Pricing

Digital Ocean web hosting company has monthly as well as Hourly plan options. Every Digital Ocean account is invoiced monthly and billed per hour based on usage up to your monthly cap.

You can get a Digital Ocean Hosting Plan that is capable of maintaining a small website for Just $5 per month. This plan includes 1 Core Processor with 1GB Memory and a 25 GB SSD Storage. You can also Transfer files up to 1 TB/Month.

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Digital ocean does not offer any refund for its customers even if the cancel their account just after making the payment.
You can only pay using credit cards and debit cards and other payment options are not available as a payment option.

Main Features Of DigitalOcean Cloud Hosting

Main Features	Quick Description
Disk Space	Even The Digital Ocean Starter Plan provides you 20 GB SSD Disc Storage. The Higher End Plan provides 960 GB SSD Disc Storage Option
Band Width	The Lowest Digital Ocean Web Hosting plan allow you to use bandwidth up to 1 GB for free and if you Exceed the limit, you have to pay $0.02/1 GB for further usage.
RAM	RAM Varies from 512 MB to 96 GB According to the plans. The Cheapest plan gives you 512 MB RAM along with other benefits for just $5/month

Uptime & Load Time – Test Results

We have been using Digital Ocean for several weeks and our biggest happiness is about their uptime. Digital Ocean Provided 100% up-time for our test website till now. We have monitored it with 5 minute Intervals (This is the test duration that we used to test all other web hosts). This is the first time we are getting a 100% up time and we are really happy about it.

In terms of page load speed, Digital Ocean has a appreciable performance. We have tested a website with some usual uploaded data since test website having only a theme and basic plugins. The page size was below 300kb and we have executed a speed test using Pingdom speed test tool. The result was not so bad. It only took one second to load that website which doesn’t even have a cache plugin.

About DigitalOcean Customer Support

Digital Ocean Offers a Customer support via Email Ticketing system. You can choose “Critical” option to get an immediate response from their support team. They does not offer any Live Chat or Direct Phone call support.

Digital Ocean is very active in social Medias like Twitter and customers can get a help from Digital Ocean team even via social Medias.

If you are ready to go through some articles to get a help, Digital Ocean have a blog, forum and a set of tutorials and Knowledge base.

DigitalOcean Hosting Money Back Policy

Not Every Web Hosting companies having same money back policy. In the case of Digital Ocean, You can’t expect full money back even if you cancel your account just after making the payment. Digital Ocean does offer a money back policy but, if you have paid the full money in advance, they will deduct the amount for the first month and rest of the money will transfer to your account.

DigitalOcean Review 2021 : Our Final Verdict

Digital Ocean is one of the best Cloud web hosting for WordPress website users. You might feel like it is a bit over priced while comparing to some other cloud web hosting companies. But once you hosted a website with digital ocean platform, you will never have to worry about website down time. Peoples can trust on Digital Ocean since it offers a best in the class services.

Up time was awesome and the load time is good but it can be improved. Other than the lack of a customer friendly money back policy, Digital Ocean performs better than its competitors. You can check our ChemiCloud Review another decent cloud hosting provider that might be a little cheaper than Digital Ocean.

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