Product overview — Cloud Compute
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DigitalOcean Droplets
Simple, developer-friendly cloud VMs with predictable pricing, often chosen by small teams for straightforward hosting.
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Who is this best for?
This is the fastest way to decide whether DigitalOcean Droplets is in the right neighborhood.
Best for
- 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
- You need deep enterprise governance and managed service integration
- You need global footprint and advanced networking patterns at scale
- Less ecosystem breadth than hyperscalers
Sources & verification
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