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DigitalOcean
The DigitalOcean logo
Type of site
cloud hosting provider
OwnerDigitalOcean, Inc.
Created byBen Uretsky, Moisey Uretsky, Jeff Carr, Mitch Wainer
URLwww.digitalocean.com
Commercialyes
Registrationyes
Launched24 June 2011; 13 years ago (2011-06-24)
Current statusActive

DigitalOcean is an American virtual private server provider based in New York City, New York. The company leases capacity from existing datacenters, including sites in New York, Amsterdam, San Francisco, and Singapore.

History

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In 2011, Ben Uretsky launched DigitalOcean as a TechStars startup company. [1]

Features

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DigitalOcean allows users to create multiple server instances using the same account. DigitalOcean provides scalable virtual private servers in multiple locations, and DNS hosting.

Growth

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In December 2013, DigitalOcean's users created over 200 more web-facing servers than Amazon AWS, according to Netcraft [2].

DigitalOcean received $37.2 million funding from venture capitalist firm Andreessen Horowitz.[3]

Reaction

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TechCrunch wrote that DigitalOcean was "not a threat to big cloud hosting providers" but that it "targets small developers and it’s working quite well" and that it is "Nothing to be ashamed of." [4] Techcrunch also commented on DigitalOcean's relatively low cost.

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