Introduction
DigitalOcean is one of the fastest-growing cloud providers. A major reason for the tremendous growth of DigitalOcean is its simplicity and appeal to the developer community. Creating resources on DigitalOcean needs only the smallest amount of preparation, and usually takes less than five minutes. Another reason why DigitalOcean is very popular is its cost, which is easily predictable, starting at US$5. It consists of 12 datacenters spread across 7 countries, in 3 continents. To maintain simplicity, DigitalOcean sometimes compromises on features. For example, at the time of writing, there are no managed databases. Also, DigitalOcean does not support Windows.
However, all the building blocks for a typical application are available: ...
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