--- source_url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigitalOcean?utm_source=openai" title: DigitalOcean - Wikipedia mirrored_at: 2026-08-04T13:03:26.913Z host: en.wikipedia.org cited_in_42a: true mirror_canonical: "https://index.42a.ai/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigitalOcean__q__utm_source_openai" --- > **Original source:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigitalOcean?utm_source=openai From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article is about the cloud infrastructure provider. For the defunct maker of wireless products, see [Digital Ocean](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Ocean "Digital Ocean"). DigitalOcean Holdings, Inc. [Trade name](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_name "Trade name") DigitalOcean Type [Public](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_company "Public company") [Traded as](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ticker_symbol "Ticker symbol") - [NYSE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Stock_Exchange "New York Stock Exchange"): [DOCN](https://www.nyse.com/quote/XNYS:DOCN) - [S&P 400](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S&P_400 "S&P 400") component Industry - [Internet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet "Internet") - [Cloud computing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing "Cloud computing") Founded June 24, 2011; 15 years ago Founders - Moisey Uretsky - [Ben Uretsky](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Uretsky "Ben Uretsky") - Jeff Carr - Alec Hartman - Mitch Wainer Headquarters [Broomfield, Colorado](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broomfield,_Colorado "Broomfield, Colorado") , U.S. Area served Worldwide Key people - Paddy Srinivasan ([CEO](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_executive_officer "Chief executive officer")) - Matt Steinfort ([CFO](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_financial_officer "Chief financial officer")) Brands - DigitalOcean - [Cloudways](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudways "Cloudways") - Paperspace - CSS-Tricks Services - [Cloud infrastructure](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_infrastructure "Cloud infrastructure") - [Kubernetes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubernetes "Kubernetes") - App platform - [Virtual private cloud](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_private_cloud "Virtual private cloud") - Cloud firewalls - [DNS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS "DNS") - Managed databases - [internet hosting service](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_hosting_service "Internet hosting service") Revenue - ![Increase](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/20px-Increase2.svg.png?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail) [US$](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_dollar "United States dollar")692.9 million (2023)[\[1\]](#cite_note-2023do-1) [Operating income](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earnings_before_interest_and_taxes "Earnings before interest and taxes") ![Decrease](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/20px-Decrease2.svg.png?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail) US$−26.2 million (2022) [Net income](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_income "Net income") ![Increase](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/20px-Increase2.svg.png?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail) US$19.4 million (2023)[\[1\]](#cite_note-2023do-1) [Total assets](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset "Asset") ![Decrease](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/20px-Decrease2.svg.png?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail) US$1.82 billion (2022) [Total equity](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equity_\(finance\) "Equity (finance)") ![Decrease](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/20px-Decrease2.svg.png?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail) US$51.1 million (2022) Number of employees 1,204 (2022) [ASN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_System_Number "Autonomous System Number") - [14061](https://bgp.tools/as/14061) Website [www.digitalocean.com](https://www.digitalocean.com/) **Footnotes** [\[2\]](#cite_note-2)[\[3\]](#cite_note-3)[\[4\]](#cite_note-4) **DigitalOcean Holdings, Inc.** is an [American](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americas "Americas") multinational technology company and [cloud](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing "Cloud computing") service provider. The company is headquartered in [Broomfield, Colorado](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broomfield,_Colorado "Broomfield, Colorado"), US, with 15 globally distributed [data centers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_center "Data center").[\[5\]](#cite_note-5) DigitalOcean provides developers, startups, and [SMBs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_and_medium_businesses "Small and medium businesses") with cloud [infrastructure-as-a-service](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrastructure-as-a-service "Infrastructure-as-a-service") platforms.[\[6\]](#cite_note-RonMiller-6)[\[7\]](#cite_note-7) DigitalOcean also runs Hacktoberfest, a one-month-long celebration of open-source software held in October. Each year, it partners with different software companies, including [GitHub](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub "GitHub"), [Twilio](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilio "Twilio"), Dev.to, [Intel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel "Intel"), Appwrite and Deep Source. In 2003, brothers [Ben](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Uretsky "Ben Uretsky") and Moisey Uretsky, who founded ServerStack, a [managed hosting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dedicated_hosting_service "Dedicated hosting service") business,[\[8\]](#cite_note-Cleverism-8) wanted to create a new product that would combine web hosting and [virtual server](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_private_server "Virtual private server") and target entrepreneurial software developers.[\[9\]](#cite_note-9)[\[8\]](#cite_note-Cleverism-8) In 2012, the Uretskys met co-founder Mitch Wainer following Wainer's response to a [Craigslist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craigslist "Craigslist") job listing.[\[10\]](#cite_note-10) The company launched their beta product in January 2012.[\[11\]](#cite_note-11) In mid-2012, the founding team consisted of [Ben Uretsky](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Uretsky "Ben Uretsky"), Moisey Uretsky, Mitch Wainer, Jeff Carr, and Alec Hartman. DigitalOcean accepted the offer of [TechStars](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TechStars "TechStars") 2012's startup [accelerator](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seed_accelerator "Seed accelerator") in [Boulder, Colorado](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulder,_Colorado "Boulder, Colorado"), and the founders moved to Boulder to work on the product.[\[12\]](#cite_note-TechCrunch-12) At the end of the accelerator program in August 2012, the company had signed up 400 customers and launched around 10,000 cloud server instances.[\[12\]](#cite_note-TechCrunch-12)[\[13\]](#cite_note-13) On January 16, 2018, new _droplet_ (virtual machines) plans were introduced.[\[14\]](#cite_note-14) In May 2018, the company announced the launch of its [Kubernetes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubernetes "Kubernetes")\-based container service.[\[15\]](#cite_note-ReferenceA-15)[\[16\]](#cite_note-ettech-16) In June 2018, [Mark Templeton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_B._Templeton "Mark B. Templeton"), former CEO of [Citrix](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrix_Systems "Citrix Systems"), replaced co-founder Ben Uretsky as the company's CEO.[\[17\]](#cite_note-17) In July 2019, Yancey Spruill, former CFO and COO of [SendGrid](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SendGrid "SendGrid") (a fellow Techstars company), replaced Templeton as CEO.[\[18\]](#cite_note-Lardinois-18) Bill Sorenson, former CFO of [EnerNOC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EnerNOC?action=edit&redlink=1 "EnerNOC (page does not exist)"), was appointed as the company's new CFO.[\[18\]](#cite_note-Lardinois-18) Spruill left DigitalOcean in February 2024.[\[19\]](#cite_note-404-5dec2024-19) In September 2021, DigitalOcean announced plans to acquire Nimbella, a serverless startup.[\[6\]](#cite_note-RonMiller-6) In March 2022, the company acquired CSS-Tricks, a learning website for front-end developers.[\[20\]](#cite_note-20)[\[21\]](#cite_note-21) In May 2022, the company released DigitalOcean Functions.[\[22\]](#cite_note-22)[\[23\]](#cite_note-23) Based on technology acquired from Nimbella and the open source [Apache OpenWhisk project](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_OpenWhisk_project?action=edit&redlink=1 "Apache OpenWhisk project (page does not exist)"), DigitalOcean Functions is a serverless platform that allows developers to build and run applications without having to manage servers.[\[24\]](#cite_note-24)[\[25\]](#cite_note-25)[\[26\]](#cite_note-26)[\[27\]](#cite_note-27) In August 2022, DigitalOcean acquired [Cloudways](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudways "Cloudways"), a Pakistani cloud hosting service provider, for $350 million in an all-cash deal.[\[28\]](#cite_note-28) In March 2025, Flexential announced a partnership with DigitalOcean to expand its [GPU](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_processing_unit "Graphics processing unit") infrastructure.[\[29\]](#cite_note-29) The partnership involves a phased deployment of high-density GPU servers at Flexential's [Atlanta](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta "Atlanta")\-[Douglasville](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglasville,_Georgia "Douglasville, Georgia") data center, aimed at supporting [AI](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence "Artificial intelligence") and [machine learning](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning "Machine learning") workloads.[\[30\]](#cite_note-30) This expansion is expected to provide additional GPU Droplets powered by [NVIDIA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia "Nvidia") H200 and [AMD](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD "AMD") Instinct GPUs.[\[31\]](#cite_note-31) On January 15, 2013, DigitalOcean became one of the first cloud-hosting companies to offer SSD-based virtual machines.[\[32\]](#cite_note-techcrunch.com-32) Following a [TechCrunch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TechCrunch "TechCrunch")[\[32\]](#cite_note-techcrunch.com-32) review, which was syndicated by [Hacker News](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_News "Hacker News"), DigitalOcean saw a rapid increase in customers.[\[12\]](#cite_note-TechCrunch-12) In December 2013, DigitalOcean opened its first European data center, located in [Amsterdam](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam "Amsterdam").[\[33\]](#cite_note-33) During 2014, the company continued its expansion, opening new data centers in [Singapore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore "Singapore") and [London](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London "London").[\[34\]](#cite_note-34) During 2015 DigitalOcean expanded further with a data center in [Toronto](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto "Toronto"), Canada.[\[35\]](#cite_note-35) and Frankfurt,[\[36\]](#cite_note-36) Germany. Later in 2016, they continued expansion to [Bangalore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangalore "Bangalore"), India.[\[37\]](#cite_note-37) The company's seed funding was led by [IA Ventures](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IA_Ventures?action=edit&redlink=1 "IA Ventures (page does not exist)") and raised US$3.2 million in July 2013.[\[38\]](#cite_note-38) Its [series A round](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_A_round "Series A round") of funding in March 2014, led by venture capitalist firm [Andreessen Horowitz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreessen_Horowitz "Andreessen Horowitz"), raised US$37.2 million.[\[39\]](#cite_note-39) In December 2014, DigitalOcean raised US$50 million in debt financing from [Fortress Investment Group](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortress_Investment_Group "Fortress Investment Group") in the form of a five-year term loan.[\[40\]](#cite_note-40)[\[41\]](#cite_note-41) In July 2015, the company raised US$83 million in its [series B round](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_B_round "Series B round") of funding led by [Access Industries](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access_Industries "Access Industries") with participation from Andreessen Horowitz.[\[42\]](#cite_note-42) In April 2016, the company secured US$130 million in credit financing to build out new cloud services.[\[43\]](#cite_note-43) In May 2020, DigitalOcean raised an additional $50 million from Access Industries and Andreessen Horowitz.[\[44\]](#cite_note-44) On March 24, 2021, DigitalOcean became a publicly traded company on the [New York Stock Exchange](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Stock_Exchange "New York Stock Exchange"),[\[45\]](#cite_note-45) with their initial public offering price at $47 per share.[\[46\]](#cite_note-46) In March 2026, DigitalOcean upsized stock offering to $800 million to fund its AI and infrastructure growth.[\[47\]](#cite_note-47) ### Blocking in Iran and Russia \[[edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=DigitalOcean&action=edit§ion=4 "Edit section: Blocking in Iran and Russia")\] Digital Ocean was blocked throughout Iran as part of its attempt to cut off use of the [Lantern](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lantern_\(software\) "Lantern (software)") [internet censorship circumvention](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_circumvention "Internet censorship circumvention") tool.[\[48\]](#cite_note-48) According to Russian law, any host keeping its citizens' personal data needs to be located in Russian territory. This law led to a temporary block in April 2018 of Google, Amazon, Azure, and DigitalOcean, among others, in [Russia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia "Russia") by [Roskomnadzor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Service_for_Supervision_of_Communications,_Information_Technology_and_Mass_Media "Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media") as a hosting provider for [Telegram Messenger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegram_\(software\) "Telegram (software)") and [VPS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_private_server "Virtual private server") services.[\[49\]](#cite_note-49)[\[50\]](#cite_note-50) ### Products and business model \[[edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=DigitalOcean&action=edit§ion=6 "Edit section: Products and business model")\] DigitalOcean offers [virtual private servers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_private_server "Virtual private server") (VPS), or "droplets" using DigitalOcean terminology, using [KVM](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel-based_Virtual_Machine "Kernel-based Virtual Machine") as the hypervisor[\[51\]](#cite_note-51) and can be created in various sizes (divided in two classes: standard and optimized), in 13 different data center regions (as of December 2020)[\[52\]](#cite_note-52) and with various options out of the box, including six [Linux distributions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution "Linux distribution") and dozens of one-click applications. In early 2017, DigitalOcean expanded their feature set by adding load balancers to their offering.[\[53\]](#cite_note-53) Their platform is an alternative cloud offering and the company targets smaller developers, allowing them to spend as little as five dollars on their platform.[\[54\]](#cite_note-itprotoday-54) DigitalOcean can be managed through a web interface or using doctl command line.[\[55\]](#cite_note-55) DigitalOcean also offers block and [object-based](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_storage "Object storage") storage and since May 2018 [Kubernetes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubernetes "Kubernetes")\-based container service.[\[15\]](#cite_note-ReferenceA-15)[\[16\]](#cite_note-ettech-16) Reviewers have noted that DigitalOcean requires users to have some experience in [sysadmin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_administrator "System administrator") and [DevOps](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DevOps "DevOps"). In his review for [ScienceBlogs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ScienceBlogs "ScienceBlogs"), writer Greg Laden warned: "DigitalOcean is not for everybody. You need to be at least a little savvy with Linux ... "[\[56\]](#cite_note-56) In 2021, DigitalOcean launched a managed [MongoDB](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MongoDB "MongoDB") database service.[\[54\]](#cite_note-itprotoday-54) As of 2021, DigitalOcean is hosting publicly available community [forums](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_forum "Internet forum") and tutorials on [open source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source "Open source") and [system administration](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_administrator "System administrator") topics. As of August 2014, the service claimed to have over 1,000 vetted tutorials.[\[57\]](#cite_note-d-57)\[_[failed verification](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability "Wikipedia:Verifiability")_\] In 2017, in partnership with [Stripe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stripe_\(company\) "Stripe (company)"), DigitalOcean sponsored the Libscore tool to freely provide the developer community with open access to analytics on web development tools.[\[58\]](#cite_note-58) DigitalOcean Marketplace provides facilities to deploy various software bundles. Internally, it's run by DigitalOcean Kubernetes, OpenChannel for the catalog [API](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/API "API") and data warehouse and Cloudflare for CDN and load-balancing.[\[59\]](#cite_note-59) ### Hacktoberfest 2020 controversy \[[edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=DigitalOcean&action=edit§ion=8 "Edit section: Hacktoberfest 2020 controversy")\] DigitalOcean was widely criticized for its role in creating a [perverse incentive](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive "Perverse incentive") when it promoted Hacktoberfest 2020 with free t-shirts for contributions to open source projects, resulting in massive spurious [pull requests](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pull_request "Pull request") on [open source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source "Open source") [GitHub](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub "GitHub") repositories, amounting to an unintentional "corporate-sponsored distributed [denial of service](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack "Denial-of-service attack") attack against the open source maintainer community".[\[60\]](#cite_note-60)[\[61\]](#cite_note-61)[\[62\]](#cite_note-62)[\[63\]](#cite_note-63) DigitalOcean was quick to respond, and issued updates to Hacktoberfest to help prevent this, by allowing open source maintainers to specifically opt into Hacktoberfest, updating the Hacktoberfest process to allow maintainers to mark content as spam, and preventing repositories set up just to game the system from participating.[\[64\]](#cite_note-64)[\[65\]](#cite_note-65)[\[66\]](#cite_note-66)\[_[better source needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Questionable_sources "Wikipedia:Verifiability")_\] 1. 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