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InfoWorld •
No, not its size and growth, but its offerings and pricing. Thankfully, there is an alternative.
Several entrepreneurs saw your need and responded. In 2011, they created DigitalOcean. You bought something they called a “droplet” that was analogous to the physical servers you used to use (compute, memory and storage, all in one). Pricing was simple, too: just a low monthly fee per month and no activity related charges.
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The Register •
- DigitalOcean Now Offers Load Balancing as a Service
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- Cloud computing major DigitalOcean to set up first data centre in India
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- Atlassian Now Helps Developers Deploy Code From Bitbucket Directly To AWS, Azure and DigitalOcean
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- Atlassian Bitbucket now lets you deploy code to AWS, Microsoft Azure, DigitalOcean
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- DigitalOcean continues to gain ground with its virtual private servers, droplets
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