DigitalOcean - A Real Simple Cloud Hosting




After spending hours and hours with Azure, I decided to give some other options a try to play with cloud hosting.

 DigitalOcean is a pretty neat and small cloud hosting provider. I played with it for one day and found that it is really easy to use and the price is quite low compared to the major cloud hosting provider like Azure or Amazon AWS, or Google Cloud.




I finished the setup in about half an hour and got my website going. Everything works pretty good with a $10 per month web hosting. The speed is actually not so bad. I then deleted everything, and noticed that they only charged me one cent. I payed $5 when I signed up, and now I have $4.99 sitting in my account. So accurate!

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