Select Your Digital Ocean Droplet Specifications

Digital Ocean Droplet - Basic

The most basic Droplet – a burstable portion of vCPU – along with a configurable amount of memory.


Simple or bursty applications such as low traffic web servers, blogs, discussion forums, CMS, small databases, dev/test servers, microservices, and repository hosting.


Digital Ocean Droplet - General Purpose

The most popular modern Droplet, with 100% dedicated vCPU, along with a balanced 4GB of memory for each vCPU.


Critical applications such as high-traffic web servers, e-commerce sites, medium-sized databases, and enterprise Software as a Service (SaaS).


Digital Ocean Droplet - Memory Optimized

The maximum memory Droplet, with 100% dedicated vCPU, along with a generous 8GB of memory for each vCPU.


RAM-intensive applications like high-performance databases, in-memory caches, and real-time big data processing.


Digital Ocean Droplet - Storage Optimized

Droplets with large amounts of NVMe SSD storage and memory, along with 100% dedicated vCPU.


Extra large NoSQL databases (e.g. MongoDB, Elasticsearch, TimeScaleDB), monitoring software e.g. Prometheus, and other data warehouses.