That seems accurate, and that's actually a pretty big market. For me, DO has been great. The apps I host don't have a lot of heavy traffic and run great on a $

That seems accurate, and that's actually a pretty big market. For me, DO has been great. The apps I host don't have a lot of heavy traffic and run great on a $20 a month VPS. I have 3 of those running to spread the load. One serves the app files, one holds the database, and another handles email and DNS. For the most part, everything I've done there has worked as expected and I've not had any serious issues with downtime due to DO internal problems. I've been using hosting services for over 20 years now and DO has been leaps better than any of those I used previously. That's not to say Linode or others aren't great, or even better than DO. Since I've not used any of those mentioned by others here I can't speak to that, but I do wonder if those who dump on DO may have pushed their setup a bit too far. Many of the complaints I see are about having issues with WP. The few times I looked at that I came away thinking it was an overweight convoluted mess. One might be able to squeeze it into a $20 per month VPS but that doesn't mean it's a good choice on the DO platform. And on my own server logs there is a constant stream of requests looking for it and I have to suppose they're seeking potential exploits. So, for me, "light cloud" is exactly what I need and DO does a great job of providing it as a service.