DigitalOcean is a cloud hosting provider that offers Virtual Private Servers as droplets. DigitalOcean droplets is a VPS (Virtual Private Server) hosted on the DigitalOcean cloud. DigitalOcean droplet is a jargon coined for a network of servers. Droplets are Linux-based virtual machines that run on top of virtualized hardware, and each Droplet that a user deploys is considered a new server that they can use. DigitalOcean Droplet can be used either standalone or as part of a more extensive, cloud-based infrastructure.
Features of DigitalOcean Droplets
DigitalOcean offers the following versions of the container and Linux distributions:
| Ubuntu | Debian | CentOS | Fedora | Free BSD | RancherOS | CoreOS (via the API) |
| 20.04 (LTS) x64 19.10 x64 18.04.3 (LTS) x64 16.04.6 (LTS) x64 16.04.6 (LTS) x32 | 10.3 x64 9.12 x64 | 8.3 x64 7.6 x64 | 33 x64 32 x64 30 x64 | 12.2 x64 zfs 12.2 x64 ufs 11.4 x64 zfs 11.4 x64 ufs | v1.5.8 x64 | 2512.3.0 (stable) 2513.1.0 (beta) 2514.0.0 (alpha) |
Floating IPs
DigitalOcean Floating IPs are publicly accessible static IP addresses that users can assign to DigitalOcean Droplets. A floating IP offers an additional static address that users can use to access a Droplet without changing or replacing the original public IP address of the Droplet.
Firewalls
DigitalOcean Cloud offers a free, stateful, network-based firewall service for their DigitalOcean Droplet users. This firewall helps to block all traffic that isn’t expressly permitted by a rule. Customers can define the Droplets protected by a firewall using tags or individually.
Block Storage Volumes
DigitalOcean Block Storage is a convenient and flexible way of managing additional storage (volumes) for the Droplets. Block Storage Volumes are independent resources that users can move between Droplets within the same region. Users can increase the size of a volume at any time without powering down the Droplet to which it is a