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Virtual machines anyone can set up in seconds
Get dependable uptime with our 99.99% SLA, simple security tools, and predictable monthly pricing with DigitalOcean's virtual machines, called Droplets.
What's it like to spin up a Droplet? Check out a brief tour to see how simple it is to create a Droplet.
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Cloud firewalls
Easily help secure your infrastructure with free Cloud Firewalls and define what services are visible on your Droplets. Perfect for staging and production deployments.
Monitoring
Collect metrics on visibility, monitor Droplet performance, and get alerts when problems arise in your infra—at no additional cost.
Team management
Securely and efficiently collaborate on projects with unlimited users, get two-factor authentication, and have all of your projects on a single bill.
Backups
Backups are disk images of your Droplets created automatically once per week, priced at 20% of the cost of the Droplet.
Snapshots
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.
Volumes Block Storage
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.
Spaces Object Storage
Load balancers
Distribute incoming traffic across a group of Droplets and increase your application's availability with Load Balancers—a highly available, fully managed service.
Reserved IPs
Assign static IPs to your Droplets for seamless traffic redirection within the same data center. Reserved IPv6 ensures address stability across reboots and rebuilds, plus you can bring your own IPs to preserve trust.
Comprehensive, cost-effective cloud computing
Reliably scale as your demand shifts
Resize a Droplet or scale horizontally with many of them. Deploy across globally distributed data centers each with our 99.99% uptime SLA.
Easily deploy and manager your Droplets
Interact with your Droplets how you want. Our intuitive UI, CLI, API, and Terraform Provider make it simple to manage your virtual machines.
Build and monitor, and secure your apps for less
Get exceptional bandwidth pricing and 500 GiB per month of outbound data transfer—plus monitoring and firewalls—for free with every Droplet.
Basic
For simple applications
Premium available
Low-traffic web servers
Blogs and forums
Small databases
Simple enough for any user, powerful enough for fast-growing businesses
General Purpose
For critical apps
Premium available
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
E-commerce sites
High-traffic web servers
Memory-Optimized
For RAM-intensive apps
Premium available
High-performance DBs
In-memory caches
Real-time data processing
CPU-Optimized
For CPU-intensive apps
Premium available
Media streaming
Data analytics
Batch processing
Storage-Optimized
For extra large apps
Premium available
NoSQL databases
Monitoring software
Other data warehouses
GPU
For AI/ML workloads
AI/ML training
High performance computing (HPC)
Graphics and video rendering
Distributions
Deploy your Droplet to the distribution you prefer.
Ubuntu
Fedora
Rocky Linux
CentOS
Debian
AlmaLinux OS
Pre-installed apps
Create a Droplet with pre-installed apps and databases.
WordPress
LAMP
Docker
MySQL
Node.js
MongoDB
Custom images
Upload your customized OS or virtual appliance and make it simple to migrate and scale your preferred environment to the Cloud.
RAW
VHDX
qcow2
VMDK
VDI
Deploy your Droplet with any of these available distributions
Kea, an AI startup, uses DigitalOcean Droplets to pivot and scale
"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
Validin experiences fast performance with low costs with Premium CPU-Optimized Droplets
"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 supports Atom Learning's adaptive online learning platform
"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