Digital Ocean was just too late and too small to carry much blame for Rackspace’s decline in hosting. Even as recently as 2021, DO revenue was $120 million vs a

Digital Ocean was just too late and too small to carry much blame for Rackspace’s decline in hosting. Even as recently as 2021, DO revenue was $120 million vs almost $3 billion at Rackspace. Play around with various hosting company names in Google Trends if you want to see how interest changed over time. I’m not saying DO is bad, far from it. But it’s more accurate to say that they benefited from trends that were well underway before they had significant market presence.