DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean is an American virtual private server provider based in New York City. The company leases capacity from existing datacenters, including sites in New York, Amsterdam, San Francisco, London and Singapore.

Check out apps, wrappers, and integrations created by our developer community using the DigitalOcean API

On June 24, 2014, Digital Ocean's second version of their API ('API V2') launched in a BETA version. The new API is RESTful, uses oAuth, and supports IPv6.

The report states, "Our December 2013 Web Server Survey showed a month-on-month gain of 6,514 web-facing computers", adding ‚ "DigitalOcean is now the 15th largest hosting company in terms of web-facing computers."

In October 2014, DigitalOcean surpassed Rackspace as the fourth largest hosting provider in the world.

DigitalOcean claims that its Droplets (its branded term for cloud servers), can typically be provisioned in 55 seconds.

The company also provides Solid-state drives and KVM virtualization.

DigitalOcean currently offers a Community resource, which provides developer-to-developer forums and tutorials on open source and sysadmin topics. As of August 2014, the Community resource receives 2 million visitors per month and has more than 800 vetted tutorials.

In partnership with Stripe, DigitalOcean sponsored Libscore to freely provide its developer community with open access to analytics on web development tools.