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Digital Ocean

Digital Ocean

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1 creator use or recommend it

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Last discussed Oct 5, 2026

A cloud infrastructure provider offering virtual private servers, databases, and other cloud computing services.

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Dave Morin
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"for my venture capital firm we use a digital ocean virtual machine that operates in our slack"

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Used for: Apple acquisition to enter cloud hosting and compete with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Praised: Developer trust, MacBook affinity, relatively affordable acquisition price (~... vs: Compared to Amazon Web Services, Azure, Google Cloud as competitors Apple wou...

"I'm going to go with DigitalOcean. There's no Amazon Web Services, there's no Azure, there's nothing at Apple for hosting their apps, hosting software. But there is trust. They have a lot of developers who use MacBooks. Imagine your MacBook allows..."

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"GitHub, Digital Ocean, AWS, whatever you're going to use"

Liam Ottley
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vs: Grouped with Vercel and Railway as traditional deployment infrastructure that...

"No Vercel, Railway, Digital Ocean — that sort of stuff — for these smaller internal tools."

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"Understand the basics of GitHub and hosting or deployment with DigitalOcean or similar — these key pieces: API keys, how environments work."

John Coogan
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Used for: Hosting a website via virtual machine vs: Compared to Meta Muse's $20/month subscription tier for VM compute

"You can go and rent a true virtual machine to like host your website on Digital Ocean for like 20 bucks."

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Rashid Khasanov
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Used for: Hosting for his SaaS products

"For hosting, we use DigitalOcean."

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Craig Mod
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"Spin up a DigitalOcean server or whatever, use a Cloudflare worker — all this is so hard to use because you have to know what to ask for it to do any of these things."

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Chris Hawkes
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"I can just get a Digital Ocean or Linode and host my own website"

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