DigitalOcean, Inc is an American cloud infrastructure provider headquartered in New York City with data centers worldwide.
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14 Facts About DigitalOcean
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DigitalOcean provides developers, startups, and SMBs with cloud infrastructure-as-a-service platforms.
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DigitalOcean accepted the offer of TechStars 2012's startup accelerator in Boulder, Colorado, and the founders moved to Boulder to work on the product.
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In September 2021, DigitalOcean announced plans to acquire Nimbella, a serverless startup.
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In December 2013, DigitalOcean opened its first European data center located in Amsterdam.
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In December 2014, DigitalOcean raised US$50 million in debt financing from Fortress Investment Group in the form of a five-year term loan.
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DigitalOcean had been blocked in Iran as a result of an attempt to cut off the use of the Lantern internet censorship circumvention tool.
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DigitalOcean offers virtual private servers, or "droplets" using DigitalOcean terminology, using KVM as the hypervisor and can be created in various sizes, in 13 different data center regions and with various options out of the box, including six Linux distributions and dozens of one-click applications.
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In early 2017, DigitalOcean expanded their feature set by adding load balancers to their offering.
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DigitalOcean offers block and object-based storage and since May 2018 Kubernetes-based container service.
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Reviewers have noted that DigitalOcean requires users to have some experience in sysadmin and DevOps.
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In 2017, in partnership with Stripe, DigitalOcean sponsored the Libscore tool to freely provide the developer community with open access to analytics on web development tools.
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DigitalOcean Marketplace provides facilities to quickly deploy popular software bundles.
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DigitalOcean was quick to respond, and issued updates to Hacktoberfest to help prevent this, by allowing open source maintainers to specifically opt into Hacktoberfest, updating the Hacktoberfest process to allow maintainers to mark spammy content, and preventing repositories set up just to game the system from participating.
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