Question
Do Very Large Droplets Span Multiple Physical Servers?
- Posted on February 15, 2025
- Bare MetalVirtualizationDroplets
Asked by BryanIlman
I’m considering using a large Droplet on DigitalOcean, possibly one with 60 vCPUs. I’m curious about how these are provisioned. Do such large Droplets run on a single physical server, or are they spread across multiple physical machines?
Understanding this would help me plan for performance and potential failure scenarios. Any insights would be appreciated!
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Hi there,
DigitalOcean’s very large Droplets, like those with 60 vCPUs, are usually provisioned on a single physical hypervisor rather than spanning multiple physical servers. This way you get lower latency and better performance but also means that the Droplet’s resources are tied to that specific machine.
For high availability and fault tolerance, you could distribute workloads across multiple Droplets and using load balancing:
- Bobby