Digital Ocean

About DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean is a simple and robust cloud computing platform, designed for developers.

Key Differentiatiors:

• Simple Control Panel – DigitalOcean's command center makes configuring cloud servers and development frameworks simple and intuitive.
• Active Developer Community – DigitalOcean's community pages are continually updated and moderated. Developers will find numerous tutorials, a robust Q & A section, and myriad community projects.
• Professional hosting starting at $5 per month – DigitalOcean's transparent and simple pricing model starts at $5 per month and offers hourly billing.
• SSD-only cloud – DigitalOcean's servers use only high-performance Solid State Disks. Their speed directly benefits the performance of hosted web sites and applications. All DigitalOcean cloud servers are live and configurable in less than one minute.
• Linux distributions/one-click installations – DigitalOcean offers six popular Linux distributions that can be automatically pre-installed upon deployment of a server: Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, CoreOS and FreeBSD. A multitude of application packages can be installed with just one click, including LAMP, LEMP, and MEAN; also development frameworks Ruby on Rails, Django and Docker; as well as popular applications like eCommerce software Magento, CMS solutions Wordpress and Ghost, and MediaWiki.

Company History:

• Apr, 2016
  DigitalOcean Secures $130 Million Credit Facility to Deliver Next Generation Cloud
• Feb, 2016
  DigitalOcean Enters India Market
• Jan, 2016
  DigitalOcean Launches 10 Million Droplets
• Dec, 2015
  Atlassian BitBucket Announces Integration with DigitalOcean
• Oct, 2015
  DigitalOcean Announces Floating IPs, High Availability of Servers
• Sep, 2015
  DigitalOcean Launches Datacenter In Toronto
• Jul, 2015
  $83MM Series B Round, Led by Access Industries
• May, 2015
  DigitalOcean becomes 2nd largest cloud hosting provider
• Apr, 2015
  API v2 Leaves Beta
• Mar, 2015
  The DigitalOcean Community Publishes 1,000th Tutorial
• Jan, 2015
  4 Millionth Droplet Launches
• Oct, 2014
  DigitalOcean Contributes to GitHub's Student Developer Program
• Sep, 2014
  DigitalOcean Launches New Community
• Aug, 2014
  New Referral Program, Give $10 Get $25
• Jul, 2014
  LON1 (London) Datacenter Opens
• Mar, 2014
  $37.2MM Series A Round, Led by a16z
• Feb, 2014
  SGP1 (Singapore) Datacenter Opens
• Jan, 2014
  1 Millionth Droplet Launches
• Jul, 2013
  $3.2MM Seed Funding Round, Led by IA Ventures
• Apr, 2013
  SFO1 (San Francisco) Datacenter Opens
• Mar, 2013
  100,000th Droplet Launches
• May, 2012
  DigitalOcean Joins TechStars Accelerator Program
• Aug, 2011
  First Cloud Server (Droplet) Launches in New York
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