DigitalOcean

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DigitalOcean is a virtual private server provider targeted towards developers and offers low cost cloud servers in data centers across the world.

Upsides

• One-click-install for Ghost, Wordpress, Drupal, Django, Joomla, MediaWiki, and LAMP.
• The price for a single virtual server ranges from US$5 to US$640 per month depending on your needs.
• You manage the server yourself.

Downsides

• You manage the server yourself.

IRC

DigitalOcean has an IRC channel on freenode; #digitalocean

Free DNS hosting

They offer free DNS hosting with a nice API, so it's possible to use it as dynamic DNS as well - once you detect a change in the local IP, you can alter the entry. The TTL is 900 seconds, which is not immediate, but tolerable.

They also seem to add domain privacy by default, also for free, to any domain, which is hosted (ns records are with digitalocean) with them.

IndieWeb Examples

• rascul
• Christopher De Vries
• Peter Molnar
• Calum Ryan
• Chris McLeod

Criticism

Omarchy Donation

In September 2026 it was announced that DigitalOcean had begun financially supporting the Omacon Foundation, which was created by David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH). DHH has his own list of controversies documented on Wikipedia, including dehumanizing rhetoric. There's discussion among some developers to move away from using DigitalOcean as a result.

• 2026-09-11 Jürgen Geuter: Power grab
• Stop Omarchy
• 2026-09-09 DHH: DigitalOcean joins as a Founding Corporate Patron with $3 million (archived)
• 2025-09-19 David Celis: The DHH Problem

Discontinuing Open Source Credits Program

• 2026-09-30 Owncast: fediverse post

Treatment of CSS Tricks

• 2026-09-18 Andy Bell: You’ll miss publishers when they’re gone
• 2026-09-15 Declan Chidlow: CSS-Tricks in Limbo
• 2026-09-14 Geoff Graham: Why CSS-Tricks Has Been Quiet Lately

See Also

• web hosting