What they do: Kea is a voice-based artificial intelligence SaaS platform that enables restaurants to take orders over the phone without the need for additional staff. 

How DigitalOcean powers their business:
When Kea was first built they used a large cloud provider for their cloud services. As they grew and started to improve their platform, they were having challenges around the lack of transparency their cloud provided; turning off one function could make others stop working, which was challenging as a lean organization trying to maintain their stack.

Once switching to DigitalOcean, Kea found the simplicity of DigitalOcean’s solutions, the large library of documentation and tutorials, and the support provided to them enabled them to focus more on their business. They found it was easy to set up Droplets (Linux-based virtual machines) with just a few clicks in DigitalOcean’s user-friendly interface, and quickly got support whenever it was needed.  

What SaaS building solution is right for me? 

• DigitalOcean offers a variety of solutions for building and scaling your SaaS application. Droplets are our flexible, scalable virtual machines. They support Linux applications and are fully customizable to your needs. Droplets start at just $5 and can be scaled vertically by adding resources to your Droplet, or horizontally by deploying multiple Droplets in one data center or across our 14 global data centers. You can add storage and other features to complement your Droplets. App Platform is our fully managed Platform as a Service offering, which allows you to easily spin up a static website or application without having to manage the infrastructure yourself. This solution is ideal for those who want the benefits of DigitalOcean without maintaining their own infrastructure. DigitalOcean also offers Managed Kubernetes for containerization solutions and Managed Databases including MongoD, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Redis. 

How much does your SaaS development platform cost? 

• DigitalOcean’s pricing is transparent and predictable, and we offer some of the lowest bandwidth pricing in the industry. You can get started with a Basic Droplet for just $5 a month, and be confident that your pricing will stay predictable even as you scale with flat pricing across data centers. DigitalOcean’s App Platform provides you with hosting for 3 static sites for free, and our Basic plan starts at $5 a month. View our full pricing chart here. 

What are 1-click Marketplace apps? 

• The DigitalOcean Marketplace allows you to build your websites and applications faster with preconfigured, 1-Click Apps for popular content management systems including Wordpress, Plesk, CyberPanel, Ghost, developer tools such as Docker and Dokku, and databases such a MongoDB and MySQL. These 1-Click Apps are preconfigured environments with all the prerequisites you need to get started, saving you time on your website hosting. 

What support do you offer? 

• DigitalOcean offers every customer free support through our ticketing system - you’ll get a response from a member of our Customer Support Team who can help you with any questions for no extra charge. In addition, DigitalOcean provides a vast array of documentation and tutorials on how to get started with our products, programming languages, and more.