Recommendations you can check.
by DigitalOcean
Who uses, recommends or left DigitalOcean, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.
3 people
I host my sites on DigitalOcean and end up using vim in screen sessions on my droplets a bunch.
His written "Uses This" interview, covering the hardware he keeps for years and the software he writes and curates with.
2019-12-10·usesthis.com ↗
For anything that needs to run PHP, I use DigitalOcean.
His /uses page covering every part of his setup; the page discloses that a few of the links are affiliate links. Page carries no date; 2019-08-20 is its first Internet Archive snapshot.
2019-08-20·adamwathan.me ↗
DigitalOcean for hosting projects.
His /uses page, "a list of tools and services I love and use", which states it was last updated in April 2026 and that some of its links are affiliate links. Only the month is given, so no exact publication date could be established.
Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.
The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.
A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.
The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.
The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.
What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:
Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.