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DigitalOcean vs Google

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DigitalOcean
Based on 14 reviews.
Google
Based on 1130 reviews.
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Overview
DigitalOcean is an American virtual private server provider based in New York City. The company leases capacity from existing data centers, including sites in New York, Amsterdam, San Francisco, London, Singapore and Frankfurt. It is an Infrastructure as a Service, comparable to Google Storage and Amazon S3 online storage services. DigitalOcean has received $90.4 million in funding across four venture rounds from Techstars, Fortress Investment Group, Crunch Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, and IA Ventures.
Google is an American multinational technology company specializing in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, and software. an online advertising service that places advertising near the list of search results. Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. Together they own about 14 percent of its shares but control 56 percent of the stockholder voting power through supervoting stock. They incorporated Google as a privately held company on September 4, 1998. An initial public offering followed on August 19, 2004. Its mission statement from the outset was "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful,"
Sample Customers
DigitalOcean
jQuery Foundation, Pertino, TaskRabbit, Compose, InfluxDB, The Able Few
DigitalOcean Container Registry
Rainmaker Digital, Accern, Fanout, QuoDeck, Lytham Labs, Route Trust
DigitalOcean Spaces
1. Airbnb 2. Amazon 3. Apple 4. Atlassian 5. BBC 6. Bloomberg 7. Cisco 8. Coca-Cola 9. Dell 10. Dropbox 11. Facebook 12. Google 13. HubSpot 14. IBM 15. LinkedIn 16. Lyft 17. Microsoft 18. Netflix 19. Oracle 20. PayPal 21. Pinterest 22. Qualcomm 23. SAP 24. Spotify 25. Square 26. Tesla 27. Twitter 28. Uber 29. Visa 30. WeWork 31. Xerox
Google Firebase
Fabulous, Pic Collage, Shazam, SkyScanner
Google Compute Engine
Allthecooks, BetterCloud, Bluecore, Cosentry, Evite, Ezakus, HTC, Infectious Media, iStreamPlanet, Mendelics, SageMathCloud, Sedex, Treeptik, Wibigoo, Wix, zulily, Zync
Google Container Registry
Zulily
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Top Industries
Manufacturing Company
10%
Computer Software Company
10%
University
7%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Computer Software Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
7%
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