I have hosted my side projects at DO for four years, and am very happy with their service. I've served half a petabyte of data to 5 million users in that time.

I have hosted my side projects at DO for four years, and am very happy with their service. I've served half a petabyte of data to 5 million users in that time. I have consistently been happy with their documentation and API. I haven't required much customer service, but the customer service I have had has been adequate. When I've done the calculations for my use cases, I've found it would be significantly cheaper for me to have a second, redundant copy of my entire infrastructure at another provider as a failover in the event of a prolonged DO downtime than it would be to host my side projects at Amazon or Google.