Get dependable uptime with our 99.99% SLA, simple security tools, and predictable monthly pricing with DigitalOcean's virtual machines, called Droplets.
Interact with your Droplets how you want. Our intuitive UI, CLI, API, and Terraform Provider make it simple to manage your virtual machines.
Resize a Droplet or scale horizontally with many of them. Deploy across globally distributed data centers each with our 99.99% uptime SLA.
Get full-featured virtual machines with up to 11,000 GiB per month of outbound data transfer and SSD storage* included – plus monitoring and firewalls free.
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* Outbound data transfer and SSD storage allowance varies with Droplet plans
What's it like to spin up a Droplet? Check out a brief tour to see how simple it is to create a Droplet.
For simple applications
Low-traffic web servers
Blogs and forums
Small databases
Upgrade to Premium CPU-Optimized for up to 10Gbps network speeds, faster processors, & NVMe SSDs.
For critical apps
High-traffic web servers
E-commerce sites
Medium-sized databases
For RAM-Intensive apps
High-performance DBs
In-memory caches
Real-time data processing
For CPU-intensive apps
Media streaming
Data analytics
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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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
“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
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.
Choosing the right Droplet plan depends on your workload. Please refer to this article that explains the differences between shared and dedicated CPUs, and goes into detail on each Droplet plan.
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.
Basic Droplets are available in all regions. Most other Droplet types are available in all regions. Click here to learn more about regional availability.
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