Thursday, January 9, 2014

DigitalOcean - Simple Cloud Hosting

Digital Ocean


Digital Ocean is a Virtual Private Server (VPS) provider based in New York. It basically provides the hardware to host your own Virtual Machine. With their SSD hard drives, we can expect much faster disk i/o performance when compared to a traditional storage medium.

Like Amazon "Instances", DigitalOcean calls each virtual machine a "Droplet".

Features include:
  • Tier-1 Bandwidth
  • KVM Virtualization
  • Hex Core machines with dedicated ECC Ram and RAID SSD storage.
  • Flexible API
  • Easy-to-use Control Panel
  • Two-Factor Authentication
  • 99.99% Uptime SLA
  • Trusted Network Providers
  • Multiple Data Center Locations
Their cheapest plan start from $5 for 512 MB RAM and 20 GB SSD storage.

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