How is the website speed of DigitalOcean cloud hosting?

Publish: 2015-10-21 | Modify: 2017-11-21

DigitalOcean is a cloud hosting provider founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York. It uses KVM architecture and offers high-performance SSD hard drives at a competitive price. With the previous GitHub student discount promotion, more and more website owners and developers in China have started using it.

Speaking of the speed of DigitalOcean, there are various related evaluation articles available online, so I won't go into detail here. If you are interested, you can search for them online. For website owners, what they care about is how fast and stable it is to use DigitalOcean for website hosting.

In fact, the best example is right in front of us. Since I applied for the $100 discount from the GitHub student package promotion, my blog has been hosted on DigitalOcean's cloud server and has been running steadily for over a year. The $100 has long been spent, but I am still willing to continue using it by paying.

There are many factors that affect the speed of a website, such as website program optimization, as well as the stability and speed of the hosting provider. According to numerous tests by netizens, the DigitalOcean San Francisco data center is relatively stable for users in mainland China. If you are using it for setting up a Shadowsocks server and you are a mobile user, you can consider the Singapore data center.

Of course, if you like to tinker, you can open a server in each data center and test the speed. DigitalOcean charges on an hourly basis, so you don't have to worry about excessive costs. For example, the minimum configuration of DigitalOcean is $5/month. If you open 4 servers and only use them for 4 hours, the total cost would be $5 / (24 30) 4 * 4 = $0.111.

If you are using WordPress to build your website, I have the following suggestions for optimizing the speed. You can refer to these articles:

To register for DigitalOcean, click here and enter the latest promo code SSDMAY10 to get $10, so you can use it for three months with only $5. Don't miss it if you enjoy tinkering.

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I come from China and I am a freelancer. I specialize in Linux operations, PHP, Golang, and front-end development. I have developed open-source projects such as Zdir, ImgURL, CCAA, and OneNav.

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