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choosing a data center location

How to choose a data center location for your business

At DigitalOcean, we focus on the success of small and medium-sized technology businesses on our platform—from offering solutions that scale with your startup to providing a reliable cloud platform you can build on. We aim to take care of your infrastructure, so you can focus on providing a reliable experience…
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New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

Since we introduced Droplets a decade ago, we’ve grown alongside our customers as their needs have changed. We’ve invested in our infrastructure, expanded our geographic footprint, and introduced new products like DigitalOcean Kubernetes, App Platform, and Managed Databases. These investments have attracted a new set of customers to DigitalOcean—startups and…
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How DigitalOcean’s new Droplet Console works

We recently released our brand new web based terminal, which makes it much easier for connecting to Droplets. The new Droplet Console provides one-click SSH access to Droplets through a native SSH/Terminal-like experience. Today, I want to share how some of the security features of the new console work. Customers’…
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Cloud backup best practices for SMBs

Small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and startups have limited budgets for business operations such as monitoring, backups, and security. They also tend to iterate on their applications much faster, have fewer compliance requirements, higher risk tolerance, and can manage with “good enough” disaster recovery practices, depending on the type of…
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Celebrating ten years of Hacktoberfest!

This October we’re excited to kick off a very special month of open source contributions—our tenth annual Hacktoberfest! Since 2014, maintainers and contributors have come together to contribute to the open source projects that many companies, including DigitalOcean, rely on. Over the years Hacktoberfest has grown from a small group…
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A message about Intel’s recent security vulnerabilities

Today, Intel released 40 security advisories, including two side-channel issues that, if successfully exploited, may cause information disclosure. On DigitalOcean’s platform, this means a malicious user could use a Droplet to infer partial data of another Droplet on the same physical host. To mitigate the impact of these vulnerabilities, we…
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