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Read through the comments. There are plenty of them stating what they love about DO.

• Thaxll 6y ago
  I don't see why you would use DO it's vastly inferior to every cloud provider, the only reason people use DO is for the price, it's cheap compare to AWS, Google or Azure.
  • ForHackernews 6y ago
    It's a lot cheaper, and because it's smaller they don't try to lock you into their own proprietary crap like the big three. Cost savings + flexibility/avoiding vendor lock-in are DO selling points in my mind.
  • Tostino 6y ago
    For some workloads, it's also much faster for similar money. I looked into migrating my app to Azure, to get similar performance to what I have in DO was over 3x the monthly cost. Worked with Azure support to benchmark and try and come up with a plan to migrate, and the support rep ended by saying essentially "don't think we can get close to your current performance for near that price". It's not cut and dry.
  • heliodor 6y ago
    That's okay, the comments can prove illuminating. People like the documentation. People like the simplicity. People like the UX. And more. Give the comments a read. If you value understanding how people make purchasing decisions, this is an opportunity to get some insight because as you can see, there's a lot more to it than what you were able to enumerate. Seems you might be a software engineer. This should interest you because an engineer that understand the business end of things is immensely more valuable than a heads-down coder in the majority of tech companies.