Since DigitalOcean is  the new kid on the block, most uptime testing systems have little data regarding the stability of their clouds. The results that you can find show they're 100% uptime—an almost unbelievable number, but we'll keep on eye on this, You will, of course, get a 99.99% uptime SLA, which is a market standard.

DigitalOcean offers a decent amount of security features to ensure stable cloud performance, including nightly server backups. Another good way to protect your data is to make a server snapshot, which is also possible with DO. The redundancy and capacity of their clouds are ensured by Tier-1 networks and 10-gig-E connections.

Even if you don't count the low prices charged for this host's servers, the image of DigitalOcean clouds is really impressive. First of all, their virtual server includes RAID SSD hard drives, which seem to be the only offer of the kind in the market. Additionally, you get decent memory options and adequate transfer possibilities.

Along with 55-second server deployment and Tier-1 network, they have KVM, or Kernel-based Virtual Machines. This solution is used for high-level virtualization that makes Linux servers run faster and more securely.

This company wins several extra points for providing hardware details. They have Hex Core racks, dedicated ECC RAM, and their RAID SSD, which look impressive.

DigitalOcean has a special approach to customer support. While they don't have any phone numbers posted, you can easily contact them via email ticketing or live chat. Customers' reviews suggest that you won't have any serious reason to contact them since their clouds run really well.

Connecting with DO on social networks may prove to be another contact method since DigitalOcean is very active on social networks, particularly Twitter.

The support extras provided by this cloud host are impressive. They have a company blog, a forum and a huge set of articles and tutorials united under DigitalOcean Community. This is very convenient for the average consumer new to cloud hosting trying out the service for the first time.

• Forum and blog
• Impressive knowledgebase
• Active Twitter and Facebook
• Live Chat

• No phone number
• Unclear support time

[warning]We couldn't find any information about money back guarantees, trial periods or even cancellation/termination policies.[/warning]

See the complete and updated policy by Digital Ocean:
https://www.digitalocean.com/tos‎

DigitalOcean has happy price points as well as a great pricing system. They offer the two most popular pricing systems: monthly and hourly. This cloud host has fair prices for hourly charges,  which means you will not pay much over the monthly fee even if your cloud works for most of the time.

It would be quite the challenge if you decided to find another cloud host offering SSD hard drive and 512MB for only $5/mo. This makes DigitalOcean a stand-out option for cloud starters. You can deploy many servers and it won't cost you a lot of money. Even the prices for extra services are great - $0.02/GB of extra traffic is a great offer.

Note: DigitalOcean offers 10 plans for cloud hosting clients. Please visit the company's website for more detailed pricing information.

This cloud host does its best to make the DO clouds user-friendly. Server management is performed using their custom control panel that has an extremely convenient interface and many useful tools. You need only a couple of clicks to resize, snapshot or create a server, for example. However, they don't provide you with a mobile app, which is a clear disadvantage these days.

The company's website is planned well. It only takes a few moments to get all the necessary information and to sign up. You can even try their control panel for free, as long as you register on the site.

• Perfect website navigation
• User-friendly control panel
• Multiple cloud server plan
• Convenient management tools