DigitalOcean is a managed cloud services platform and an IaaS platform that offers a robust, reliable, and secure infrastructure with support for many use cases and computing needs. It’s a developer-friendly platform with tools for developing your own SaaS solutions or games. It also takes an innovative approach to IaaS through its Droplets product.
Droplets is both the name of DigitalOcean’s IaaS platform and the name of the VM instances themselves. With DigitalOcean, you can provision one or thousands of Droplets in just seconds, rapidly scaling your compute power using your ideal mixture of custom images, 1-Click Apps, and standard distributions.
DigitalOcean offers multiple plans and types of Droplets. In addition to basic shared CPU VMs, Droplets provides these types of dedicated CPU VMs:
DigitalOcean Droplets has many satisfied customers, including WPMU DEV, Stablepoint, Cloudways, The Able Few, and Digital Stage.