Get dependable uptime with our 99.99% SLA, simple security tools, and predictable monthly pricing with DigitalOcean's virtual machines, called Droplets.
Interact with your Droplets how you want. Our intuitive UI, CLI, API, and Terraform Provider make it simple to manage your virtual machines.
Resize a Droplet or scale horizontally with many of them. Deploy across globally distributed data centers each with our 99.99% uptime SLA.
Get exceptional bandwidth pricing and 500 GiB per month of outbound data transfer—plus monitoring and firewalls—for free with every Droplet.
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For simple applications
Premium available
Low-traffic web servers
Blogs and forums
Small databases
For critical apps
Premium available
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
E-commerce sites
High-traffic web servers
For RAM-Intensive apps
High-performance DBs
In-memory caches
Real-time data processing
Upgrade to Premium CPU-Optimized for up to 10 Gbps network speeds, faster processors, & NVMe SSDs.
For extra large apps
NoSQL databases
Monitoring software
Other data warehouses
Upgrade to Premium Memory-Optimized for up to 10 Gbps network speeds.
Upgrade to Premium Storage-Optimized for up to 10 Gbps network speeds.
What's it like to spin up a Droplet? Check out a brief tour to see how simple it is to create a Droplet.
Are the ever-increasing cloud costs on AWS, GCP, and Azure severely impacting your bottom line? Reach out to our team of experts and we’ll show how you can significantly reduce your bill for the same consistent infrastructure experience.
Monthly caps and flat pricing mean your bill is never a surprise.
Collect metrics on visibility, monitor Droplet performance, and get alerts when problems arise in your infra—at no additional cost.
Easily help secure your infrastructure with free Cloud Firewalls and define what services are visible on your Droplets. Perfect for staging and production deployments.
Securely and efficiently collaborate on projects with unlimited users, get two-factor authentication, and have all of your projects on a single bill.
Backups are disk images of your Droplets created automatically once per week, priced at 20% of the cost of the Droplet.
Snapshots are on-demand disk images of your Droplets that you can keep indefinitely and use them to create new Droplets.
Attach secure and scalable SSD-based Block Storage to your Droplet when you need more storage space and not the additional processing power that a larger, more expensive Droplet might provide.
Store and deliver vast amounts of content with S3-compatible Spaces Object Storage with a built-in CDN to minimize page load times, improve performance, and reduce bandwidth and infrastructure costs.
Distribute incoming traffic across a group of Droplets and increase your application's availability with Load Balancers—a highly available, fully managed service.
Avoid single points of failure by assigning publicly-accessible static IP addresses to Droplets that allow you to redirect network traffic between any of your Droplets within the same datacenter.
When we tried Premium CPU-Optimized Droplets, we moved a workflow that was in AWS, and with the Premium CPU-Optimized Droplets our workloads got faster by several hours and we saved $2000 a month with DigitalOcean.
Kenneth Kinion,
Managing Director, Validin
DigitalOcean was super easy to understand and use, and instead of having to focus on correctly configuring everything, we were able to spend our time on writing code.
Patrick Wingo,
Head of Product
One of the reasons we’ve been able to grow as quickly as we have is because of how scalable everything is and how easy it is to add new features on our DigitalOcean platform. We use every single one of your products now.
Tim Osborne,
CTO
DigitalOcean Droplets are Linux-based virtual machines (VMs) that run on top of virtualized hardware. Each Droplet you create is a new server you can use, either standalone or as part of a larger, cloud-based infrastructure.
Choosing the right Droplet plan depends on your workload. Please refer to this article that explains the differences between shared and dedicated CPUs, and goes into detail on each Droplet plan.
Yes. Resizing a Droplet, also known as vertical scaling, increases the amount of resources a Droplet has. There are two resizing options for Droplets:
Here are some considerations you should take into account before you resize the Droplets.
DigitalOcean provides a 99.99% uptime SLA for both Droplets and Volumes Block Storage.
Each Droplet includes free outbound data transfer, starting at 500 GiB/month and scaling up to meet your needs. For users with multiple droplets, outbound data transfer is shared between all Droplets each billing cycle. Additional transfer is billed at $0.01 per GiB. Please refer to our Product Docs for more information.
Basic Droplets are available in all regions. Most other Droplet types are available in all regions. Learn more about regional availability in our Product Docs.
You will never be billed more than the monthly cost of your Droplet. All Droplets are billed hourly up to a monthly cap of 672 hours (the number of hours in 4 weeks). If you use your server for fewer than 672 hours during the month, you will be billed for each hour that you used it. If you use your server for more than 672 hours that month, you will be billed at the monthly cost. For example, if you spin up a $10/mo Droplet and use it for 336 hours, then you would be charged $5 (going by the hourly rate). If you use that Droplet for 700 hours, then you would be charged $10 (capped at the monthly rate).
Yes, when you power off your Droplet, you are still billed for it. This is because your disk space, CPU, RAM, and IP address are all reserved, even while powered off. Therefore, charges are made until you destroy the instance.
Please refer to our Pricing FAQs for more information.
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