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DigitalOcean is an American virtual private server provider based in New York City, New York. The company leases capacity from existing datacenters, including sites in New York, Amsterdam, San Francisco, and Singapore.

History
In 2011, Ben Uretsky launched DigitalOcean as a TechStars startup company.

Features
DigitalOcean allows users to create multiple server instances using the same account. DigitalOcean provides scalable virtual private servers in multiple locations, and DNS hosting.

Growth
In December 2013, DigitalOcean's users created over 200 more web-facing servers than Amazon AWS, according to Netcraft.

DigitalOcean received $37.2 million funding from venture capitalist firm Andreessen Horowitz.

Reaction
TechCrunch wrote that DigitalOcean was "not a threat to big cloud hosting providers" but that it "targets small developers and it’s working quite well" and that it is "Nothing to be ashamed of." Techcrunch also commented on DigitalOcean's relatively low cost.