DigitalOcean Droplets are on-demand virtual machines with shared or dedicated vCPUs, managed from a control panel or API.
Droplets run Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, CentOS and AlmaLinux, and pre-built images for applications including Docker, WordPress, MySQL, Node.js and MongoDB. Plans cover basic, general-purpose, memory-optimized, CPU-optimized, storage-optimized, v5 and GPU configurations in shared or dedicated vCPU variants.
Instances are managed through a web UI, CLI, API and Terraform provider and can be resized or scaled horizontally across data centres. Attached features include monitoring, cloud firewalls, backups, snapshots, block storage volumes, S3-compatible object storage, load balancers and reserved IPs.
| Attribute | DigitalOcean Droplets | Hetzner Cloud | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Provider | |  | |
| Founded | 2012 | 1997 | |
| Sells To | Enterprise, Small Business | Business | |
| Pricing Model | Recurring, SaaS | Managed Service | |
| Ownership | Public | Private |
Provider
Founded 2012
Sells To Enterprise, Small Business
Pricing Model Recurring, SaaS
Ownership Public
Provider
Founded 1997
Sells To Business
Pricing Model Managed Service
Ownership Private
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