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Digital Ocean (digitalocean.com) has been added on 📅 and last updated on 📆 . Trusted and verified by WHTOP on 2015.
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👉 Total Reviews: 2
🙌 Average Rating: 2 / 10
👍 Good Reviews: 0
👎 Bad Reviews: 2
👈 Official Responses: 0
2 / 10VISIT WEBSITE

2 user reviews
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👉 Total Reviews: 11
🙌 Average Rating: 4.5 / 10
👍 Good Reviews: 4
👎 Bad Reviews: 7
👈 Official Responses: 0
4.5 / 10VISIT WEBSITE

11 user reviews
 
101 6th Ave
New York, NY 10013
US

digitalocean.com
225 Varick Street 12th Floor
Monkton, NY 10014
US

squarespace.com
📧 Emailcontact@d...customercare@s...
☎ Phone+1.6463978051+1 14106044044, Fax: +1 410 332 0947
Ranks🏆 Alexa Rating 691▼-74 (lower is better)
📈 Domains 603,268▲1152 (higher is better)
Alexa Rank in IN 210
🏆 SEO MOZ DA/PA 89/72🔗 Links 29,636,818
🏆 Alexa Rating 466▲77 (lower is better)
📈 Domains 517,101▲1783 (higher is better)
Alexa Rank in US 164
🏆 SEO MOZ DA/PA 80/71🔗 Links 567,391
Languages en-US en-US fr-FR de-DE it-IT pt-PT es-ES
📄 InfoDigitalOcean has not been in the hosting business for such a long period of time, but the company managed to build a strong reputation for their services.

The company provides cloud servers that can be purchased from every part of the world. DigitalOcean team assures monitoring and private networking for cloud servers, these also being equipped with pre-built open source apps. Cloud servers include DNS management, as well as application program interface (API) and command line interface [...]
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Founded in 2003, Squarespace offer website building services and boasts to have hosted millions of websites on their platform. Their website is available in several languages: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.

All website building plans one free domain name, SSL for security (configured with 2048-bit keys and SHA-2 signatures, also including the green secure lock icon), SEO features, templates (over 60 designs that are also customizable and made for various types of [...]
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📡 EstablishedApril, 2000March, 2003
🏁 Site speedSlow, load time 3.5 seconds 19% sites are slower
SEO Links count 1,446
Average, load time 2.4 seconds 38% sites are slower
SEO Links count 118,570
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digitalocean.com Icondigitalocean
Started from: January, 2012
  • Tweets: 76,087
  • Followers: 227,107
  • Friends: 2,211
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squarespace.com Iconsquarespace
Started from: April, 2008
  • Tweets: 28,017
  • Followers: 144,447
  • Friends: 7
  • Last activity:

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DigitalOcean
  • Followers: 4,322
  • Entity type: Privately Held
  • Founded: 2011
  • Employee Count: 51-200
  • Industry: Internet

Squarespace
  • Followers: 8,404
  • Entity type: Privately Held
  • Founded: 2004
  • Employee Count: 201-500
  • Industry: Internet

Digital Ocean Blog
  • Blog Posts: 250
  • Blog added on: Apr, 2013
  • Language used: en
  • Last written post:

Square Space Blog
  • Blog Posts: 169
  • Software Site-Server v6.0.0-ee0575d4a0e666e90203501e3de6f4a60e9f709a-1 (http://www.squarespace.com)
  • Blog added on: Feb, 2012
  • Language: en-US
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🔧 Cloud - 15/0
💡 Plan Name$5 /mo [Linux]-
💰 Price$ 5.00/mo.-
💿 Disk Space25 GB SSD-
📶 Data Transfer1 TB-
🔌 Hosted domainsunlimited-
🆓 Free Domain0-
💪 CPU1 vCPU-
🔋 RAM1 GB-
📌 Dedicated IPs0-
🔨 Control Panel -
🌏 Server Location-
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)Pricing & billing FAQ
How am I billed?

Each Droplet is billed per hour up to its monthly cap.
Do I have to pay the cost of the server every time I create a new one?

No—you only need to pay for 1 hour of usage. For example, spinning up a new 512MB server just to test something [...]
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📅 Date PlanDec 2019-
💡 Plan Name$10 /mo [Linux]-
💰 Price$ 10.00/mo.-
💿 Disk Space50 GB SSD-
📶 Data Transfer2 TB-
🔌 Hosted domainsunlimited-
🆓 Free Domain0-
💪 CPU1 vCPU-
🔋 RAM2 GB-
📌 Dedicated IPs0-
🔨 Control Panel -
🌏 Server Location-
📜 DescriptionSame as previous plans-
📅 Date PlanDec 2019-
💡 Plan Name$15 /mo, 1 vCPU [Linux]-
💰 Price$ 15.00/mo.-
💿 Disk Space60 GB SSD-
📶 Data Transfer3 TB-
🔌 Hosted domainsunlimited-
🆓 Free Domain0-
💪 CPU1 vCPU-
🔋 RAM3 GB-
📌 Dedicated IPs0-
🔨 Control Panel -
🌏 Server Location-
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)Balanced virtual machines with a healthy amount of memory tuned to host and scale applications like blogs, web applications, testing / staging environments, in-memory caching and databases.-
📅 Date PlanDec 2019-
💡 Plan Name$15 /mo, 2 vCPUs [Linux]-
💰 Price$ 15.00/mo.-
💿 Disk Space60 GB SSD-
📶 Data Transfer3 TB-
🔌 Hosted domainsunlimited-
🆓 Free Domain0-
💪 CPU2 vCPUs-
🔋 RAM2 GB-
📌 Dedicated IPs0-
🔨 Control Panel -
🌏 Server Location-
📜 DescriptionSame as previous plans-
📅 Date PlanDec 2019-
💡 Plan Name$15 /mo, 3 vCPUs [Linux]-
💰 Price$ 15.00/mo.-
💿 Disk Space60 GB SSD-
📶 Data Transfer3 TB-
🔌 Hosted domainsunlimited-
🆓 Free Domain0-
💪 CPU3 vCPUs-
🔋 RAM1 GB-
📌 Dedicated IPs0-
🔨 Control Panel -
🌏 Server Location-
📜 DescriptionSame as previous plans-
📅 Date PlanDec 2019-
💡 Plan Name$20 /mo [Linux]-
💰 Price$ 20.00/mo.-
💿 Disk Space80 GB SSD-
📶 Data Transfer4 TB-
🔌 Hosted domainsunlimited-
🆓 Free Domain0-
💪 CPU2 vCPUs-
🔋 RAM4 GB-
📌 Dedicated IPs0-
🔨 Control Panel -
🌏 Server Location-
📜 DescriptionSame as previous plans-
📅 Date PlanDec 2019-
💡 Plan Name$40 /mo [Linux]-
💰 Price$ 40.00/mo.-
💿 Disk Space160 GB SSD-
📶 Data Transfer5 TB-
🔌 Hosted domainsunlimited-
🆓 Free Domain0-
💪 CPU4 vCPUs-
🔋 RAM8 GB-
📌 Dedicated IPs0-
🔨 Control Panel -
🌏 Server Location-
📜 DescriptionSame as previous plans-
📅 Date PlanDec 2019-
💡 Plan Name$40 /mo, Dedicated vCPUs [Linux]-
💰 Price$ 40.00/mo.-
💿 Disk Space160 GB SSD-
📶 Data Transfer5 TB-
🔌 Hosted domainsunlimited-
🆓 Free Domain0-
💪 CPU2 vCPUs-
🔋 RAM4 GB-
📌 Dedicated IPs0-
🔨 Control Panel -
🌏 Server Location-
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)CPU Optimized Droplets

Compute optimized virtual machines with dedicated hyper-threads from best in class Intel CPUs for CPU Intensive applications like CI/CD, video encoding, machine learning, ad serving, batch processing and active front-end web servers.

(Other prices)
Memory Dedicated [...]
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📅 Date PlanFeb 2020-
💡 Plan Name$80 /mo [Linux]-
💰 Price$ 80.00/mo.-
💿 Disk Space320 GB SSD-
📶 Data Transfer6 TB-
🔌 Hosted domainsunlimited-
🆓 Free Domain0-
💪 CPU6 vCPUs-
🔋 RAM16 GB-
📌 Dedicated IPs0-
🔨 Control Panel -
🌏 Server Location-
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)Standard Droplets

Balanced virtual machines with a healthy amount of memory tuned to host and scale applications like blogs, web applications, testing / staging environments, in-memory caching and databases.
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📅 Date PlanDec 2019-
💡 Plan Name$160 /mo [Linux]-
💰 Price$ 160.00/mo.-
💿 Disk Space625 GB SSD-
📶 Data Transfer7 TB-
🔌 Hosted domainsunlimited-
🆓 Free Domain0-
💪 CPU8 vCPUs-
🔋 RAM32 GB-
📌 Dedicated IPs0-
🔨 Control Panel -
🌏 Server Location-
📜 DescriptionSame as previous plans-
📅 Date PlanDec 2019-
💡 Plan Name$240/mo [Linux]-
💰 Price$ 240.00/mo.-
💿 Disk Space960 GB SSD-
📶 Data Transfer8 TB-
🔌 Hosted domainsunlimited-
🆓 Free Domain0-
💪 CPU12 vCPUs-
🔋 RAM48 GB-
📌 Dedicated IPs0-
🔨 Control Panel -
🌏 Server Location-
📜 DescriptionSame as previous plans-
📅 Date PlanDec 2019-
💡 Plan Name$320 /mo [Linux]-
💰 Price$ 320.00/mo.-
💿 Disk Space1250 GB SSD-
📶 Data Transfer9 TB-
🔌 Hosted domainsunlimited-
🆓 Free Domain0-
💪 CPU16 vCPUs-
🔋 RAM64 GB-
📌 Dedicated IPs0-
🔨 Control Panel -
🌏 Server Location-
📜 DescriptionSame as previous plans-
📅 Date PlanDec 2019-
💡 Plan Name$480 /mo [Linux]-
💰 Price$ 480.00/mo.-
💿 Disk Space1875 GB SSD-
📶 Data Transfer10 TB-
🔌 Hosted domainsunlimited-
🆓 Free Domain0-
💪 CPU20 vCPUs-
🔋 RAM96 GB-
📌 Dedicated IPs0-
🔨 Control Panel -
🌏 Server Location-
📜 DescriptionSame as previous plans-
📅 Date PlanDec 2019-
💡 Plan Name$640 /mo [Linux]-
💰 Price$ 640.00/mo.-
💿 Disk Space2500 GB SSD-
📶 Data Transfer11 TB-
🔌 Hosted domainsunlimited-
🆓 Free Domain0-
💪 CPU24 vCPUs-
🔋 RAM125 GB-
📌 Dedicated IPs0-
🔨 Control Panel -
🌏 Server Location-
📜 DescriptionSame as previous plans-
📅 Date PlanDec 2019-
💡 Plan Name$960/mo [Linux]-
💰 Price$ 960.00/mo.-
💿 Disk Space3750 GB SSD-
📶 Data Transfer12 TB-
🔌 Hosted domainsunlimited-
🆓 Free Domain0-
💪 CPU32 vCPUs-
🔋 RAM192 GB-
📌 Dedicated IPs0-
🔨 Control Panel -
🌏 Server Location-
📜 DescriptionSame as previous plans-
📅 Date PlanDec 2019-
🔧 Website Builder - 0/4
💡 Plan Name-Personal
💰 Price-$ 12.00/mo.
💿 Disk Space-unlimited
📶 Data Transfer-unmetered
🔌 Hosted domains- 
🆓 Free Domain-1
📌 Dedicated IPs-0
🔨 Control Panel-
🌏 Server Location-United States
📜 Description-INFO (mouse over)$12 per month billed annually or $16 month to month plus applicable taxes.

Mobile-Optimized Website

Website Metrics

Free Custom Domain

SSL Security Included

24/7 Customer Support

Limited to 2 Contributors
📅 Date Plan-Jul 2020
💡 Plan Name-Business
💰 Price-$ 18.00/mo.
💿 Disk Space-unlimited
📶 Data Transfer-unmetered
🔌 Hosted domains- 
🆓 Free Domain-1
📌 Dedicated IPs-0
🔨 Control Panel-
🌏 Server Location-United States
📜 Description-INFO (mouse over)$18 per month billed annually or $26 month to month plus applicable taxes.

Mobile-Optimized Website

Advanced Website Metrics

Free Custom Domain

SSL Security Included

24/7 Customer Support

Unlimited Contributors

Professional email from Google

$100 Google Ads Credit

Promotional [...]
📅 Date Plan-Jul 2020
💡 Plan Name-Basic Commerce
💰 Price-$ 26.00/mo.
💿 Disk Space-unlimited
📶 Data Transfer-unmetered
🔌 Hosted domains- 
🆓 Free Domain-1
📌 Dedicated IPs-0
🔨 Control Panel-
🌏 Server Location-United States
📜 Description-INFO (mouse over)26$ per month billed annually or $30 month to month plus applicable taxes.

Everything you need to get your business off the ground.

All features from the Business Plan

Sell Unlimited Products

No Transaction Fees

Mobile-Optimized Website and Checkout

Free Custom Domain

SSL Security [...]
📅 Date Plan-Jul 2020
💡 Plan Name-Advanced Commerce
💰 Price-$ 40.00/mo.
💿 Disk Space-unlimited
📶 Data Transfer-unmetered
🔌 Hosted domains- 
🆓 Free Domain-1
📌 Dedicated IPs-0
🔨 Control Panel-
🌏 Server Location-United States
📜 Description-INFO (mouse over)$40 per month billed annually or $46 month to month plus applicable taxes.

Advanced features as your business grows.

All Features from the Business Plan

Sell Unlimited Products

No Transaction Fees

Mobile-Optimized Website and Checkout

Free Custom Domain

SSL Security Included

24/7 [...]
📅 Date Plan-Jul 2020
💻 Supported Operating Systems
  • Linux
    📤 List of products
    • Cloud
    • Domains
    • Website Builder
    ✍️ Support Options
    • Email
    • Help Desk
    • 0 WHTop support responses
    • Email
    • Help Desk
    • Phone / Toll-Free
    • Forum
    • Available 24/7
    • 0 WHTop support responses
    💰 Payment Options
    • Credit / Debit / Prepaid Cards
    • PayPal
    • Credit / Debit / Prepaid Cards
    👪 Last positive / negative customers review
     
    -anonymous- (-no email-)
    on 📆 Mar 30, 2018
    😠 digitalOcean stopped my account out of no where claiming that I violated their terms of service, even tho the server was only used for testing local scripts, I was unable to get a refund nor my files from the server I had hosted on there, and was [...]

    Alan (-no email-)
    on 📆 Jun 16, 2011
    Squarespace is fantastic.
    😁 I'm a designer who uses Squarespace daily, an in-fact Squarespace is THE ONLY CMS I'VE USED for over a year now. In the past year, I've helped over 30 clients ranging from start-ups, and 'mom & pops' to large multi-national corporations. With [...]

    -anonymous- (-no email-)
    on 📆 Mar 04, 2013
    😠 squarespace stole my domain and now even though I am using a different host when people type in my domain in their browser address bar it goes to a squarespace error message.

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