I have been a DigitalOcean customer for years. When I first encountered the company back in 2016, it provided a very easy-to-spin-up Linux server with a variety of distros as options. It differentiated itself from web hosting providers by offering infrastructure -- rather than software -- as a service.
Dillon Erb, DigitalOcean VP Most web hosting providers give you a control panel to navigate the web hosting experience for your site. You have no control over the virtual machine. What DigitalOcean does is give you a virtual bare-metal server, letting you do whatever the heck you want.
This appealed to me greatly. Also: I've tested a lot of AI tools for work. These 4 actually help me get more done every day DigitalOcean was essentially Amazon Web Services (AWS) but with a much more understandable pricing structure.
When I first started running servers on it, it was substantially more expensive than AWS for the kind of work I was doing. DigitalOcean has since expanded its service offerings to provide a wide variety of infrastructure capabilities, all in the cloud. Beyond bare-metal virtual Linux servers, I haven't used its additional capabilities, but I still appreciate the ability to quickly and easily spin up and down a Linux machine for any purpose, and at a very reasonable price.
I do this to test out systems, run some low-traffic servers, and generally as a part of my extended infrastructure. With the big push into artificial intelligence (Al), it makes sense that DigitalOc.
