One-Sentence Verdict: DigitalOcean is the best cloud VPS for developers who want a genuinely polished control panel, industry-leading 99.99% uptime SLA, and a full managed services ecosystem — at prices that sit credibly between budget providers and the hyperscale clouds.
Quick-Reference Scorecard
| Category | Score (/10) | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Performance | 8.0 | Strong across all tiers; Premium NVMe plans deliver best-in-class I/O |
| Pricing & Value | 7.5 | Competitive at Basic tier; dedicated-CPU plans are a significant price jump |
| Reliability & Uptime | 9.5 | 99.99% SLA — the strongest uptime commitment in this review cohort |
| Support Quality | 8.0 | Ticket + community forum; extensive docs; response times vary by plan |
| Ease of Use | 9.5 | The most polished VPS control panel available in 2026 |
| Features & Scalability | 9.0 | Managed K8s, databases, GPU, App Platform, object storage — a full ecosystem |
| Security | 8.0 | Cloud firewalls, DDoS mitigation, BYOIP, private networking included free |
| Overall | 8.5/10 | The gold standard for developer-focused unmanaged cloud VPS |
At a Glance — DigitalOcean Droplets
| Spec | Detail |
|---|---|
| Starting Price | $4/month (Basic Droplet, shared CPU) |
| Hypervisor | KVM |
| Storage Type | Standard SSD (Basic); NVMe drives (Premium AMD/Intel, CPU-Optimized Premium, General Purpose Premium, Memory-Optimized, Storage-Optimized) |
| vCPU Type | Shared vCPU (Basic); Dedicated vCPU (CPU-Optimized, General Purpose, Memory-Optimized) |
| Managed Options | Unmanaged VPS; managed Kubernetes, databases, and App Platform available |
| Uptime SLA | 99.99% |
| Data Centre Locations | 8 regions: New York, San Francisco, Amsterdam, Singapore, London, Frankfurt, Toronto, Bangalore, plus Richmond (VA) |
| Control Panel | DigitalOcean Cloud Console + full REST API, CLI (doctl), Terraform |
| OS Support | Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, Fedora, Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux, FreeBSD + 1-Click Marketplace apps |
| Billing | Per-second (60-second minimum, $0.01 minimum charge); monthly cap at 672 hours |
| Support Channels | Ticket-based (24/7), community forum, knowledge base |
Overview
DigitalOcean is an American cloud infrastructure company founded in 2011 by Ben Uretsky and co-founders in New York City. Originally launched as a simple, developer-friendly alternative to AWS, DigitalOcean has grown into a publicly traded company (NYSE: DOCN) serving over 600,000 customers worldwide. Its flagship product — the Droplet — is DigitalOcean’s branded name for a virtual private server (VPS), and remains the product that built the company’s reputation: clean, fast to provision, and genuinely simple to manage.
In 2026, DigitalOcean has evolved well beyond VPS into a full developer cloud platform. Managed Kubernetes, managed databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis/Valkey, MongoDB, OpenSearch, Kafka), App Platform (serverless container deployment), GPU Droplets for AI and ML workloads, Spaces object storage, and load balancers all live under the same roof — and are all accessible from the same console. DigitalOcean’s positioning is deliberate: powerful enough for production workloads, simple enough that a developer can go from signup to deployed application in under an hour without reading a manual.
The Droplet product runs on KVM virtualisation across all plan tiers. A significant billing upgrade took effect on 1 January 2026: DigitalOcean moved from hourly billing to per-second billing with a 60-second minimum charge — a meaningful improvement for CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and ephemeral workloads where paying for a full hour for a 10-minute job was a persistent frustration. The monthly cap model remains, ensuring predictable maximum spend.
What DigitalOcean is not: the cheapest option at any tier. Budget-seekers who prioritise raw specs-per-dollar will find Hostinger (for shared vCPU NVMe plans) or Hetzner (for European workloads) more cost-efficient. DigitalOcean charges a premium for its polished interface, breadth of managed services, 99.99% uptime SLA, and the consistency of its platform experience — and for many teams, that premium is justified.
Pricing & Plans
Plan Comparison
DigitalOcean organises its Droplet lineup into several distinct families. The table below covers the most relevant plans for VPS use cases:
| Plan Type | vCPU | RAM | Storage | Transfer | Price/mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic (shared) | 1 | 512 MB | 10 GB SSD | 500 GiB | $4 |
| Basic (shared) | 1 | 1 GB | 25 GB SSD | 1 TB | $6 |
| Basic (shared) | 2 | 2 GB | 60 GB SSD | 3 TB | $18 |
| Premium AMD (shared + NVMe) | 1 | 1 GB | 25 GB NVMe | 1 TB | $7 |
| Premium Intel (shared + NVMe) | 1 | 1 GB | 25 GB NVMe | 1 TB | $8 |
| CPU-Optimized (dedicated) | 2 | 4 GB | 25 GB SSD | 4 TB | $42 |
| CPU-Optimized Premium (dedicated + NVMe) | 2 | 4 GB | 25 GB NVMe | 4 TB | $63 |
| General Purpose (dedicated) | 2 | 8 GB | 25 GB SSD | 4 TB | $63 |
| General Purpose Premium (dedicated + NVMe) | 2 | 8 GB | 25 GB NVMe | 4 TB | $84 |
| Memory-Optimized (dedicated + NVMe) | 2 | 16 GB | 50 GB NVMe | 4 TB | $84 |
Prices as of June 2026. Verify at digitalocean.com/pricing before purchasing.
Value Analysis
DigitalOcean’s pricing has a clear two-tier structure, and understanding it is essential to assessing its value. The Basic and Premium AMD/Intel tiers use shared vCPU — CPU cores allocated from a shared physical host — and are priced from $4–$8/month. These plans offer competitive value for low-to-moderate-traffic workloads, development environments, and applications with variable CPU needs.
The jump to dedicated vCPU plans (CPU-Optimized, General Purpose, Memory-Optimized) starts at $42/month — a significant step up from the Basic tier. At this level, DigitalOcean is more expensive than Vultr’s comparable Optimized Cloud Compute plans ($28/month for 2 dedicated vCPU / 4 GB RAM / 50 GB NVMe drives). The premium reflects DigitalOcean’s platform breadth, SLA quality, and control panel — factors that matter more to some teams than to others.
The good news: DigitalOcean’s pricing is transparent and genuinely flat. No renewal price traps, no introductory rate tricks, no hidden charges for features that appear free until billing day. The $200 free credit for new accounts (valid 60 days) provides a generous trial window — more than enough to evaluate the platform thoroughly before committing. Bandwidth overage at $0.01/GiB is among the cheapest in the industry, and inbound transfer is always free.
Performance
Infrastructure
DigitalOcean Droplets run on KVM hypervisor virtualisation, providing full hardware isolation — each Droplet runs its own complete OS kernel, fully separated from other tenants on the same physical host. This is fundamentally different from container-based virtualisation approaches like OpenVZ, where all instances share the host kernel and isolation boundaries are weaker. KVM-based Droplets can load custom kernel modules, run Docker without workarounds, and are compatible with the full spectrum of Linux operating systems.
Basic and Premium AMD/Intel Droplets use shared vCPU — your CPU cores are drawn from a physical host shared with other customers, with burstable vCPU capability allowing brief performance peaks when host resources are available. Premium AMD and Premium Intel Droplets add NVMe drives and newer-generation processors, delivering meaningfully faster I/O than Basic plans at $1–2/month more. CPU-Optimized and higher plans use dedicated vCPU — physical CPU cores reserved exclusively for your Droplet, eliminating noisy-neighbour CPU contention entirely. CPU-Optimized plans use Intel Ice Lake and newer processors clocked at 2.6 GHz+, with Premium variants reaching up to 10 Gbps network throughput alongside NVMe storage.
RAM is guaranteed and dedicated on all Droplet plans regardless of tier — only CPU time is shared on Basic plans. Storage performance varies significantly by tier: Basic plans use standard SSDs, while Premium, CPU-Optimized Premium, General Purpose Premium, Memory-Optimized, and Storage-Optimized plans use NVMe drives delivering sequential read speeds of 900 MB/s–1.2 GB/s.
Real-World Performance
WordPress: DigitalOcean performs well for WordPress, though it is not the cheapest route. A Premium AMD or Premium Intel Droplet at $7–8/month delivers NVMe storage and acceptable shared CPU for small-to-medium WordPress sites. For WooCommerce or high-traffic WordPress, the CPU-Optimized tier’s dedicated vCPU ensures consistent PHP processing performance — but at $42–63/month, Vultr’s High Frequency plans at $12–24/month or Hostinger KVM at $8.99/month are more economical for the same workload. DigitalOcean’s Marketplace 1-Click WordPress installer, LAMP and LEMP stack options, and abundance of community tutorials make setup fast regardless of plan.
Node.js and APIs: This is DigitalOcean’s historical sweet spot and remains an excellent fit. The clean per-second billing model, fast provisioning (under 60 seconds), comprehensive REST API and Terraform support, and 8 global regions make Droplets ideal for API backends, microservices, and Node.js applications. The new per-second billing introduced in January 2026 is particularly valuable here — ephemeral API servers, CI/CD runners, and auto-scaled instances now cost only for their active seconds, not the nearest full hour.
Databases: Premium NVMe Droplets deliver strong self-managed database performance, with sequential read speeds above 900 MB/s and write speeds over 700 MB/s. For teams who want to offload database administration entirely, DigitalOcean’s managed database service — covering PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis/Valkey, MongoDB, OpenSearch, and Kafka — starts at $15/month and removes infrastructure overhead completely. The managed databases integrate directly with Droplets over private VPC networking, adding no latency penalty.
CI/CD and Ephemeral Workloads: The January 2026 per-second billing transition makes DigitalOcean particularly well-suited for automated testing and CI/CD pipelines. A CPU-Optimized Droplet running a 10-minute test job now costs roughly $0.02 instead of the $0.125 that hourly billing would have charged — a meaningful reduction for teams running hundreds of jobs daily. The doctl CLI and robust API make Droplet lifecycle management from automated pipelines straightforward.
Reliability & Uptime
DigitalOcean’s 99.99% uptime SLA is the strongest commitment in this review cohort — stronger than Hostinger’s 99.9%, Hetzner’s 99.9%, and even Vultr’s 100% network SLA (which covers network availability but applies credits based on a different methodology). DigitalOcean’s 99.99% SLA covers Droplet availability, translating to a maximum of approximately 52 minutes of permitted downtime per year. The SLA is credit-backed — service credits are issued for uptime falling below the guarantee, calculated based on the impacted Droplet’s monthly cost.
Independent monitoring across DigitalOcean’s primary regions consistently shows actual uptime in the 99.97%–99.99% range over rolling 12-month periods, with incidents predominantly isolated to individual regions rather than platform-wide. DigitalOcean operates a detailed public status page at status.digitalocean.com, providing real-time status, historical incident records, and postmortem reports — one of the most transparent status communication practices among VPS providers at this price tier.
Infrastructure redundancy includes multi-path networking, redundant power, and generator backup at the data centre level. Within regions, DigitalOcean does not offer multi-availability-zone deployment comparable to AWS or GCP. For mission-critical applications requiring geographic redundancy, deploying across two or more DigitalOcean regions with a load balancer and database read replica is the recommended architecture.
Control Panel & Ease of Use
DigitalOcean’s Cloud Console is the best control panel in the VPS industry in 2026 — the benchmark against which other providers are measured. The interface is clean, logically structured, and consistently refined over a decade of iteration. Common operations (create Droplet, resize, snapshot, destroy, configure firewall, manage SSH keys) are reachable within two to three clicks. Resource monitoring graphs, bandwidth usage, and Droplet console access are all available from the instance detail page without navigating away.
Provisioning is fast — Droplets are typically available within 55 seconds of creation. The OS selection covers Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, Fedora, Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux, and FreeBSD, with custom ISO uploads available. The Marketplace offers 1-Click deployment for 100+ application stacks including WordPress, LAMP, LEMP, Docker, Kubernetes, Ghost, Discourse, and more.
The doctl CLI is a first-class interface — comprehensive, well-documented, and scriptable for infrastructure automation. Terraform and Pulumi providers are available and actively maintained. The REST API is thorough and consistent, with clear versioning and extensive documentation. For teams managing multiple Droplets, projects (DigitalOcean’s resource grouping system) and team management features provide organisation without requiring enterprise pricing.
For complete beginners, DigitalOcean occupies a useful middle ground: more hand-holding than Vultr (which is purely utilitarian), but less than Hostinger’s hPanel with Kodee AI assistance. DigitalOcean’s community tutorials — thousands of well-written, technically accurate guides covering server administration, framework setup, security hardening, and more — effectively substitute for live support in most common scenarios.
Support Quality
DigitalOcean’s support model is documentation-first, tickets second. The DigitalOcean Community — comprising thousands of tutorials, Q&A threads, and how-to guides — is the most comprehensive self-service resource in the VPS industry. Articles are technically accurate, well-maintained, and cover a broad range of server administration topics well beyond basic Droplet usage.
Support tickets are available 24/7 to all paying customers. Response times vary: in independent testing, initial ticket responses averaged 2–4 hours for standard technical queries — slower than Hostinger’s live chat (under 2 minutes) but comparable to Vultr’s ticket response times. DigitalOcean offers priority support as part of enterprise agreements; standard plans do not include guaranteed SLA-backed response times. Live chat and phone support are not available at any self-service tier.
User reviews are broadly positive on support accuracy and knowledge depth, with the most common criticism being response latency for non-urgent tickets. For teams that occasionally need immediate human assistance, DigitalOcean’s support model can be frustrating — the combination of comprehensive documentation and a thoughtful ticket system works well for teams comfortable with asynchronous resolution.
Security
DigitalOcean includes cloud firewalls (configurable rule groups applicable to individual Droplets or groups via tags) as a standard feature at no additional cost. DDoS mitigation operates at the network level across all regions. Private VPC networking between Droplets in the same region is free and uses a dedicated private interface — VPC peering between Droplets counts against bandwidth quotas only when crossing regions ($0.01/GiB inter-datacenter).
Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) — available since early 2026 as a general availability feature — allows organisations to use their own IP prefixes on DigitalOcean infrastructure, protecting established IP reputation for email delivery, IP-whitelisted services, and continuity during provider migrations. Reserved IPs (floating IPs) enable seamless traffic redirection between Droplets within a region without DNS propagation delays.
Automatic backups are available at 20% of the Droplet’s monthly cost — the same pricing model as Vultr. Snapshots are on-demand and priced at $0.06/GiB/month. DigitalOcean holds SOC 2 Type II certification, ISO 27001 certification, and is GDPR-compliant for European data centres — a stronger compliance posture than Hostinger or Vultr for organisations with regulatory requirements. OS-level security — patch management, application hardening, intrusion detection — remains the customer’s responsibility on unmanaged Droplets.
Scalability
DigitalOcean’s scalability story is one of the strongest among independent cloud providers. Droplets resize vertically (within-plan upgrades available via the console with a restart; cross-plan upgrades also supported). Horizontally, the ecosystem includes: managed load balancers ($12–$72/month depending on size), managed Kubernetes with a free control plane (pay only for worker node Droplets), Spaces object storage (S3-compatible, $5/month for 250 GB), block storage volumes (attached to individual Droplets, $0.10/GiB/month), and VPC NAT gateway ($40/node) for centralised egress.
The managed database portfolio — PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis/Valkey, MongoDB, OpenSearch, Kafka — starts at $15/month and scales to multi-node high-availability clusters. GPU Droplets (NVIDIA H100, H200, L40s, RTX 4000/6000, AMD MI300X, AMD MI325X) are available for AI and ML workloads, with on-demand pricing from $0.76/hour (RTX 4000) to $27.52/hour (H200 8×). App Platform provides a fully managed container deployment option for teams that want to avoid Droplet management entirely for stateless workloads.
Who Is DigitalOcean Best For?
- ✅ Developers who value control panel quality — the Cloud Console is unmatched for clarity, speed, and thoughtful design
- ✅ Teams needing a full managed services ecosystem — Kubernetes, databases, object storage, load balancers, GPU, and App Platform under one roof
- ✅ CI/CD pipelines and ephemeral workloads — per-second billing (from January 2026) makes short-lived Droplets genuinely economical
- ✅ Production applications needing a strong uptime SLA — 99.99% is the highest guarantee in the independent VPS market
- ✅ Teams with compliance requirements — SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, and GDPR certification cover most mid-market compliance needs
- ✅ Self-taught developers learning cloud infrastructure — the community tutorials library is the best free sysadmin resource available
- ❌ Pure price optimisers — Hostinger (shared vCPU) and Hetzner (EU) deliver significantly better specs-per-dollar
- ❌ Dedicated vCPU on a tight budget — CPU-Optimized starts at $42/month; Vultr’s Optimized Cloud Compute delivers dedicated vCPU from $28/month
- ❌ Multi-region global deployments beyond 8 regions — Vultr’s 32-location network is unmatched for geographic distribution
- ❌ Windows Server workloads — DigitalOcean supports Linux only; Vultr is the option for Windows VPS
- ❌ Businesses requiring phone or live chat support — ticket-only at self-service tiers; enterprise agreements required for priority support
Pros & Cons
| ✅ Pros | ❌ Cons |
|---|---|
| Best-in-class control panel — the benchmark for VPS interface quality | Basic plans use standard SSD, not NVMe drives |
| 99.99% uptime SLA — highest in the independent VPS market | Dedicated vCPU plans start at $42/month — significant jump from Basic tier |
| Per-second billing from January 2026 — no more paying for idle hours | No live chat or phone support at self-service tiers |
| NVMe drives on Premium, CPU-Optimized Premium, and General Purpose Premium plans | Only 8–9 data centre regions vs Vultr’s 32 |
| SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certified — strongest compliance posture at this price level | No Windows Server support |
| Managed Kubernetes with free control plane | Bandwidth overage metered ($0.01/GiB — cheap, but it exists) |
| Full GPU Droplet portfolio for AI/ML workloads | Backups cost 20% of Droplet price per month |
| BYOIP and Reserved IPs for IP reputation protection | Standard ticket response times can be 2–4 hours |
| $200 free credit for new accounts (60-day validity) | Burstable vCPU on Basic plans means CPU performance is not guaranteed |
| Richest self-service documentation in the VPS industry | No bare metal option |
How DigitalOcean Compares to Alternatives
| Feature | DigitalOcean | Vultr | Hostinger | Hetzner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starting price | $4/mo | $3.50/mo (IPv4) | $4.99/mo (promo) | €3.79/mo |
| Hypervisor | KVM | KVM | KVM | KVM |
| Storage (entry) | Standard SSD | Standard SSD | NVMe drives | NVMe |
| Storage (mid-tier) | NVMe drives (Premium plans) | NVMe | NVMe | NVMe |
| vCPU type | Shared vCPU + Dedicated vCPU | Shared + Dedicated | Shared only | Shared + Dedicated |
| Uptime SLA | 99.99% | 100% (network) | 99.9% | 99.9% |
| Support type | Tickets 24/7 | Tickets 24/7 | 24/7 live chat | Tickets |
| Data centres | 8–9 regions | 32 locations | 6 locations | 4 locations |
| Managed K8s | Yes (free control plane) | Yes (free control plane) | No | No |
| GPU Droplets | Yes | No | No | No |
| Windows VPS | No | Yes | No | No |
| Billing model | Per-second | Per-second (VX1); hourly (others) | Monthly | Monthly |
| SOC 2 certified | Yes | No | No | No |
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: Is DigitalOcean VPS managed or unmanaged? A: DigitalOcean’s core Droplet product is unmanaged — you receive root access to a clean OS installation and are fully responsible for software installation, configuration, security hardening, and ongoing maintenance. DigitalOcean does offer managed services as separate products: managed Kubernetes (DOKS), managed databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis/Valkey, MongoDB, OpenSearch, Kafka), and App Platform (a fully managed container deployment service). These are data-layer and application-layer services, not managed VPS administration. If you need OS-level management — patching, monitoring, security hardening — look at Cloudways, ScalaHosting, or Liquid Web.
Q: What hypervisor does DigitalOcean use? A: DigitalOcean uses KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) as its hypervisor across all Droplet plans. KVM is a full hardware virtualisation technology built into the Linux kernel — each Droplet runs its own isolated OS kernel and has no visibility into other customers’ instances on the same physical host. This is architecturally different from container-based solutions like OpenVZ, where all instances share the host kernel. KVM-based Droplets support Docker without modification, custom kernel modules, and the full range of Linux operating system configurations.
Q: What is the difference between Basic and Premium Droplets? A: Basic Droplets use shared vCPU and standard SSD storage — your CPU cores are drawn from a shared pool with burstable vCPU capability, and disk I/O uses SATA SSD rather than NVMe. Premium AMD and Premium Intel Droplets also use shared vCPU but add NVMe drives and newer-generation AMD EPYC or Intel processors — delivering significantly faster disk I/O for $1–2/month more. CPU-Optimized, General Purpose, and Memory-Optimized plans switch to dedicated vCPU — physical CPU cores reserved exclusively for your Droplet — eliminating noisy-neighbour CPU contention entirely. The Premium variants of these dedicated-CPU plans additionally include NVMe drives and up to 10 Gbps network throughput.
Q: Does DigitalOcean offer NVMe storage? A: Yes, on Premium AMD, Premium Intel, CPU-Optimized Premium, General Purpose Premium, Memory-Optimized, and Storage-Optimized Droplet plans. Basic Droplets use standard SSD storage. The NVMe drives on Premium and higher plans deliver sequential read speeds of 900 MB/s–1.2 GB/s — dramatically faster than SATA SSDs and particularly impactful for database-heavy, high-traffic WordPress, and caching-layer workloads. If NVMe I/O matters for your application, the Premium AMD ($7/month) or Premium Intel ($8/month) plans are the lowest-cost entry point with NVMe included.
Q: What changed with DigitalOcean billing in 2026? A: Effective 1 January 2026, DigitalOcean moved from hourly billing to per-second billing for all CPU Droplets, with a minimum charge of 60 seconds or $0.01 — whichever is higher. Billing begins when a Droplet is created and ends when it is destroyed (not when it is powered off — a powered-off Droplet still reserves compute resources on the hypervisor and continues billing). The monthly cap at 672 hours remains in place, so long-running Droplets never exceed the monthly price. The change primarily benefits teams running short-lived workloads: CI/CD pipeline runners, automated testing instances, batch processing jobs, and auto-scaled applications.
Q: What is DigitalOcean VPS best for in 2026? A: DigitalOcean Droplets are best suited for developers and engineering teams who want the most polished cloud infrastructure experience outside of AWS, GCP, or Azure — with transparent pricing, no vendor lock-in, and a full managed services ecosystem. Strongest use cases include: Node.js and Python API backends, containerised applications via managed Kubernetes, CI/CD pipeline infrastructure (particularly post-January 2026 per-second billing), self-managed and managed PostgreSQL or MySQL databases, production web applications requiring a 99.99% SLA, and teams with SOC 2 or ISO 27001 compliance requirements. For users who primarily need the lowest possible price per GB of RAM or NVMe drives storage, Hostinger or Hetzner deliver better raw value.
Our Verdict
Overall Score: 8.5/10
DigitalOcean earns its position as the developer cloud of choice for teams who want AWS-level platform breadth without AWS-level complexity or pricing. The combination of the industry’s best control panel, a 99.99% uptime SLA, per-second billing (from January 2026), SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certification, managed Kubernetes with a free control plane, GPU Droplets, and the richest self-service documentation in the VPS industry makes DigitalOcean a uniquely complete platform for startups and mid-market engineering teams.
The tradeoffs are equally clear. DigitalOcean is not the cheapest option — Basic plans use standard SSD rather than NVMe drives, and the jump to dedicated vCPU plans starts at $42/month, which undercuts its value proposition relative to Vultr’s Optimized Cloud Compute at $28/month. Only 8–9 data centre regions limits its utility for applications requiring true global distribution. No Windows Server support, no bare metal option, and ticket-only support at self-service tiers are real constraints for some use cases.
For teams who need a comprehensive, reliable, well-designed cloud platform that grows with them — from a $4/month Droplet to managed Kubernetes to GPU workloads — all managed from a single polished interface: DigitalOcean is the strongest independent cloud provider in 2026. If your priority is maximum specs-per-dollar, Hostinger or Hetzner will serve you better. If you need 32 global data centre locations, Vultr wins. For everything else, DigitalOcean delivers.
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