Digital Ocean
from $6/mo · Visa/Mastercard, PayPal, Alipay, Crypto · Last updated: September 29, 2026
Cloud platform with massive functionality and a great dashboard, and documentation so good you could learn system administration from it. Not the cheapest: 1 core and 1 GB is $6 a month and 8 cores with 16 GB is $96, but the developer experience is the best on the market and a droplet is up in under a minute. Since 2026 billing is per second. Crypto payments exist through stablecoins but aren't open to every account, and prepaid or virtual cards get refused, so a normal bank card or PayPal is the easy way in. Mining needs their written permission, and mail ports are closed by default.
At a glance
- Plans
- Min: $6/mo - 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 25 GB SSDMid: $48/mo - 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 160 GB SSDMax: $96/mo - 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM, 320 GB SSD
- Payment
- Visa/Mastercard, PayPal, Alipay, Crypto
- Locations
- United States, Canada, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Germany, India, Singapore, Australia
- Official site
- digitalocean.com
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