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Hosting Providers Comparison

2.7

104 reviews

Visit Digital Ocean

Winner

3.3

34 reviews

Visit Linode

Pricing

Starting price

$ 5.00 / month

Free domain

Coupons

User Ratings

User Friendly

2.7

3.2

Support

2.3

3.2

Features

2.7

3.3

Reliability

2.6

3.3

Pricing

3.0

3.6

User Reviews

Latest positive review

John Howard

11 Jul, 2021 | 01:07

4.4

Great Service

Digital Ocean is a highly customisable cloud hosting service with reasonable rates. The only drawback for non-technical customers is you will need to ...

configure your server VIA the command-line – the good thing is Digital Ocean has easy to follow documentation that shows you how to do this among many other things.

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Robert Evinger

24 May, 2022 | 03:05

5.0

Best I've used

I've been running a personal and business website for myself and wife for over 20 years. Tried a number of providers and switched to Linode about 3 ye...

ars ago. Best price and stability than prior providers I've used. I'm using a Nanode as all my sites are low volume. If you are comfortable with Linux administration its a good deal.

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Latest negative review

Carlos González

12 Sep, 2023 | 22:09

1.0

DigitalOcean is a scam

I received an email from Google saying that from a different location and device, my Gmail account was accessed. I had to change my password for secur...

ity reasons. One hour later, I received an email from DigitalOcean saying that they would charge $15 from my bank account. They did when I never subscribed, and I didn't even know about the existence of this company. As a result, I had to cancel my debit card and present a formal complaint to my bank to avoid future scams and money refunds. Don't trust DigitalOcean, they are a scam. Now I realized that I am not the only one who experienced this with them.

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Sergio M

29 Aug, 2022 | 02:08

1.0

Misleading regarding traffic usage

Users must be very careful regarding how overall traffic usage is prorated. I lost $68 as consequence of the confusing and misleading explanation rega...

rding traffic usage and no warning at all after closing my account. A theft

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Shared Hosting

Under $4

Under $8

Shared 1

$5.00 / month

Space: 25 GB
Bandwidth: 1 TB
Panel: cpanel
Number of Sites: 1

0 reviews

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Over $10

Shared 2

$20.00 / month

Space: 80 GB
Bandwidth: 4 TB
Panel: cpanel
Number of Sites: 1

0 reviews

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VPS

Under $4

Under $8

Over $10

Dedicated Server

Under $4

Under $8

Over $10

Dedicated CPU 4GB

$20.00 / month

Space: 80 GB
Bandwidth: Unlimited

0 reviews

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Cloud Hosting

Under $4

Under $8

$5

$5.00 / month

Space: 25 GB
Bandwidth: 1 TB

3.2

19 reviews

View $5 plan

Shared Linode 1GB

$5.00 / month

Space: 25 GB
Bandwidth: 1 TB

3.0

2 reviews

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Over $10

$10

$10.00 / month

Space: 50 GB
Bandwidth: 2 TB

3.7

8 reviews

View $10 plan

Shared Linode 2GB

$10.00 / month

Space: 50 GB
Bandwidth: 2 TB

3.0

8 reviews

View Shared Linode 2GB plan

Website Builder

Under $4

Under $8

Over $10

CDN

Under $4

Under $8

Over $10

Data Centers

North America

Europe

Asia

Oceânia

South America

Africa & Middle East

CMS support

WordPress

Joomla

Drupal

Magento

Softaculous

PrestaShop

OS Support

Windows/ASP.NET

Linux

Language Support

PHP

Java

Python

Node.js

Django

Perl

Ruby on Rails

ASP.NET

Database Support

MongoDB

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Payment Types Support

PayPal

Credit Card

Skrill

Wire Transfer

Webmoney

Bitcoin

Services Support

Live Chat

Phone Support

Email Support

Forum Support

Video guides

Knowledgebase

We choose Linode as the winner in this comparison because they have a strong commitment to offering high quality hosting, and keeping up with the latest technologies. Digital Ocean has an overall good reputation, but they really can’t compete with the focus on high quality hardware, and great customer service that Linode is known for. Linode is also significantly less expensive than Digital Ocean, which is just one more reason why Linode is the winner of this comparison.

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