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Who is DigitalOcean Droplets best for?
Quick fit guide: Who is DigitalOcean Droplets best for, who should avoid it, and what typically forces a switch.
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Best use cases for DigitalOcean Droplets
- SMB teams hosting common web workloads
- Teams prioritizing simplicity and predictable pricing
- Projects that don’t need deep hyperscaler managed services
- Teams that want a VM baseline without the overhead of hyperscaler governance
- Standard web services and APIs in a mostly single-region deployment model
Who should avoid DigitalOcean Droplets?
- You need deep enterprise governance and managed service integration
- You need global footprint and advanced networking patterns at scale
- Less ecosystem breadth than hyperscalers
Upgrade triggers for DigitalOcean Droplets
- Need deeper managed services ecosystem
- Need enterprise governance and compliance features
- Multi-region architecture becomes a requirement
Sources & verification
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