DigitalOcean

wikipedia:DigitalOcean (2011, NYSE)

• Homepage: https://digitalocean.com
• Glassdoor: https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-DigitalOcean-EI_IE823482.11,23.htm
• Sign-in: Google Account
• Credit card or Paypal required, virtual cards not allowed.

DNS management is available at no additional cost. DNS servers are: ns1.digitalocean.com, ns2.digitalocean.com, and ns3.digitalocean.com

Services

• Kubernetes, starting at $10/month
• DigitalOcean VPC (2020) , VPC replaces the DigitalOcean private networking service
• Virtual machine, starting at $5/month, 1 vCPU, 25 GB and 1TB transfer
• Monitoring (free service): mail, Slack
• Backups: https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/images/backups/
• DigitalOcean Functions (May 2022)

Related terms

• Linode, Vultr, AWS Lightsail, and Hertzner
• Remote working
• Billing alerts, Google Pay
• doctl
• Cloudways
• .digitalocean_passwords

Activities

1. Read about public IPs addresses in DO: https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/networking/floating-ips/
2. Learn about cheapest Droplet: 1 GB / 1 CPU / 25 GB SSD disk and 1 TB transfer ~ 5$/month
   1. Learn about traffic cost and charges by excess, as 12/2019 $0.01 per excess Gigabyte
3. Read StackOverflow question about DigitalOcean: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/digital-ocean?tab=Votes
4. Learn about floating IPs

See also

• doctl, compute | monitoring | balance get ] doctl --help
• DigitalOcean, DigitalOcean Spaces, do-agent, doctl, doctl bh list, doctl compute, doctl --help, DigitalOcean Uptime

https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/networking/vpc/

https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/

https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/