Get dependable uptime with our 99.99% SLA, simple security tools, and predictable monthly pricing with DigitalOcean's virtual machines, called Droplets

Get exceptional bandwidth pricing and 500 GiB per month of outbound data transfer—plus monitoring and firewalls—for free with every Droplet

For simple applications
Low-traffic web servers
Blogs and forums
Small Databases
Upgrade to Premium Droplets for faster performing Intel, AMD processors, & NVMe SSDs

For critical apps
High-traffic web servers
E-commerce sites
Medium-sized databases
For RAM-intensive apps
High-traffic web servers
E-commerce sites
Medium-sized databases
For CPU-intensive apps
CI/CD
Video encoding
Batch processing
For extra large apps
NoSQL databases
Monitoring software
Other data warehouses
We offer a wide range of shared and dedicated vCPU Droplets. Check out our recommendations for choosing the right Droplet for your workload

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Monthly caps and flat pricing mean your bill is never a surprise

1 GiB Memory
25 GiB Storage
1,000 GiB Bandwidth
DigitalOcean
GCP
AWS
Azure
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

Ubuntu
Rocky Linux
Debian
Fedora
CentOS
AlmaLinux OS
“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
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

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

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 the docs for more information

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