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DigitalOcean vs Oracle Network Cloud Service comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

DigitalOcean
Ranking in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)
13th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
14
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Oracle Network Cloud Service
Ranking in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)
33rd
Average Rating
10.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) category, the mindshare of DigitalOcean is 2.0%, down from 2.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Network Cloud Service is 0.6%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
DigitalOcean2.0%
Oracle Network Cloud Service0.6%
Other97.4%
Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)
 

Featured Reviews

MH
Commercial Manager at Uranium For IT Solutions
Provides flexibility and stability but partnership model requires improvement
There was a significant issue with the business model of DigitalOcean. The main problem was handling sub-accounts for customers on our account and the partnership model. Their business focused on end users rather than partnerships with service providers. When we tried to explain Microsoft's partnership model, they did not understand. They would respond that implementation was on their roadmap for the next year, but nothing materialized. As a service provider with multiple customers, each customer should have a separate tenant or account that our team can supervise. We needed accounts with full supervision and accounts where we only monitored customer consumption while giving customers full administrative privileges. This model works straightforwardly with Microsoft, Platform customers, and Amazon, but we could not find this in DigitalOcean. In DigitalOcean, all accounts were treated as end users. For customers in Egypt who expected invoicing from our company, this was problematic as DigitalOcean would invoice them directly. The lack of a proper service provider model ultimately led us to cease operations with DigitalOcean.
KA
Commercial Manager at Natco Information technology
Excellent support but it is a costly solution
The solution is working okay. But we are facing issues with the network because in our country, Yemen, we have some trouble. The country is very crazy because of the war we have. So, we are facing issues with the network. Most of the customers complain about the network communicating with the Cloud. We went with the Oracle solution for Interconnect because they are the preferred solution for that. But it is very unstable and the customer refuses to deal with it. They cannot do anything because Oracle recommends a stable network but we do not have that.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"It's been a good choice for us for some services. We generally have several deployments. For instance, for some static Angular applications, it was a clear choice to run them on Cloudflare, which performs very well in this context. All the assets go on DigitalOcean."
"The most outstanding aspect of DigitalOcean is its user interface and ease of use. Compared to more complex solutions, such as AWS, DigitalOcean's platform is highly intuitive and user-friendly."
"DigitalOcean is a good solution and I would recommend it to others."
"The managed database service is what I really like as it really simplifies the setup of a database infrastructure."
"The solution is easy to set up."
"Digital Ocean really hit the sweet spot."
"The Droplets feature is beneficial and easy to use."
"The solution is very stable."
"I think the Oracle team is very good."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
 

Cons

"There are disadvantages, such as machines getting stuck or disconnected, requiring restarts."
"I would like to see an automation feature added to send emails out using the open-source solution."
"I think the support can be improved, and I also think DigitalOcean needs to work on the reliability of the droplets."
"The technical support for this solution could be improved."
"Backup/snapshots does not always restore properly."
"The issue with DigitalOcean is primarily the latency. So, when you have a mixed system with some components staying here, and then we encounter network latency, it's not optimal. Our"
"The deployment time can be improved in DigitalOcean. While deployment is automated, the process can take a minute and a half to five minutes, and for more complex applications, this time increases even further. This is not optimal for applications that receive frequent updates."
"We found the solution to be a bit expensive."
"Most of the customers complain about the network communicating with the Cloud."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of DigitalOcean could be lower. It is expensive. it's higher than other solutions available in the market. We pay approximately $20 to $25 a month to use the solution. The price we pay is for the shared CPU option."
"I am using the cheapest option available, which costs $50 per month."
"The solution provides the cheapest cloud in comparison to the other cloud solutions."
"I would rate DigitalOcean's pricing a six out of ten, where one is cheap, and ten is very expensive."
"The program is cheaper than others."
"The pricing is cheap."
"The pricing is moderate and reasonable for a mid-tier cloud platform."
"There is no licensing fee but there is a subscription cost based on how much RAM and storage you require."
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Top Industries

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Marketing Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Construction Company
8%
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Company Size

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Small Business
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Small Business10
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise2
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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with DigitalOcean?
There are disadvantages, such as machines getting stuck or disconnected, requiring restarts. Sometimes we lose connection and need to check with the IT service provider from the DigitalOcean servic...
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