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2. A hoster may focus on a specific geography, specialize or concentrate on
a specific infrastructure type like Cloud. There are hosters that primarily
serve SMBs and others that target enterprises. Others, offer only a few
types of infrastructure services and are equipped with a low range of
technical capabilities or position as full-service shops and can take on
almost any kind of engagement.
Today, we are going to compare 2 great companies, services, operations,
procedures and what do they offer to us, so we can take advantage of
these companies in order to create and set up our cloud infrastructure and
develop any application.
We cannot say that Digital Ocean is fighting AWS for the entire cloud
computing business, but what we can say is that its actually is attracting
a little portion of it. Digital Ocean Primary offer is to host small
applications or developing environments to people who is looking for
something affordable Developers is the niche that Digital Ocean is
attracting a lot.

3. Amazon Web Services
The Giant in the cloud computing business, it provides a variety of
servers, all of them with different specifications and characteristics, so
you can create from the simplest application or website to the most
complex and scalable project. Implement any IT solution to it and
monitor its health with more than 30 tools that they offer in their panel.
With AWS you’ll find a complete cloud platform ready for use for
virtuallize any workload, from business applications, big data or building
games, Amazon web services gives you access to the resources you need
to create sophisticated, scalable applications of any size or shape.
You’ll find a large selection of computational resources to your
application, with support for I/O storage, and CPU intensive workloads,
experimentation becomes easy and low risk with on-demand access to a
wide range of hardware configurations and flexibility to evaluate and run
virtually any technology or tool + your application can grow
automatically as you need to change.

4. Digital Ocean
The new cloud hosting provider with headquarters in New York, launched
in 2011 has simplified the creation of Linux instances to a simple click. Its
technology as well has its service, has been recognized by a lot of people
all around the globe.
It provides a true IaaS platform and enables additional features to make it
the easiest system to use overall. You can deploy any stack with some
services already integrated in less than a minute with their called Droplets.
Their most popular Linux distributions are (Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian and
Fedora), and with just one more click you can launch several applications
like Ruby Apps, Node js Apps, LAMP stack, Docker, etc.
Digital Ocean has the best pricing of all cloud providers. Their prices are
very affordable and they don’t hit you with hidden charges for add-ons
like more traffic and fixed IP addresses.

5. So what should you consider to choose?
From an expert view, we can tell you a few points in how to choose any
type of instance, or Droplet in any of these two hosting environments:
Disk space, RAM memory, Cores, Does it has SSD technology?
Bandwidth, location of the server for latency, do they bill you hourly or
monthly and what options do they give you to reduce costs.
Vendor
Pricing
Ranges
Focus Niche Pros Cons
From
$14 to
$2500 a
month
Everybody who can
afford and big
scalable applications
A high variety of
services to integrate
with the servers.
High pricing
on support
and
instances
From $5
to $640
a month
Developers and
small applications
Best pricing and
quicker server
deployments
Very reduced
variety of
services.

6. If you are using a cloud compute service, you likely use other types of
cloud services. When evaluating compute services you should consider the
provider’s ability to fulfill other hosting requirements you may have. Some
other types of cloud services include.
1. Additional Storage
2. Content Delivery Network
3. Managed DNS
4. Databases as a Service
5. Platform as a Service
Every hoster has its strengths, technology, and marketing strategies to offer
their services, its all about focus, investigating and comparing whose
services do you need.
Article source:- http://clickittech.weebly.com/blog/digital-ocean-vs-aws-
what-hoster-to-choose