Cloud Computing: DigitalOcean now growing faster than Amazon
December 12, 2013
Grazed from NetCraft. Author: Editorial Staff.
Cloud computing provider DigitalOcean is now growing faster than Amazon Web Services. Our December 2013 Web Server Survey showed a month-on-month gain of 6,514 web-facing computers at DigitalOcean; Amazon, meanwhile, grew by an almost as huge 6,269 web-facing computers. Together, the two companies accounted for more than two-thirds of the internet-wide growth in web-facing computers in December.
DigitalOcean is now the 15th largest hosting company in terms of web-facing computers — a remarkable feat considering DigitalOcean had only 280 web-facing computers at the start of this year. Although Amazon is still the largest hosting company (by web-facing computers) and has nearly six times as many web-facing computers in total, the rapid growth at DigitalOcean may have startled those at Amazon who thought their major competitors were Microsoft Azure and Rackspace…
Whilst DigitalOcean competes directly with Amazon EC2, there are a number of Amazon Web Services which do not have a DigitalOcean equivalent. For example, Amazon offer file storage (S3), load balancing (Elastic Load Balancing), and a Content Delivery Network (CloudFront). However, by simplifying their offering — lack of support for Microsoft Windows is notable — and not offering enterprise features, DigitalOcean appeals to users with straightforward requirements such as small businesses and developers…
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