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Dev tools · April 4, 2014

DigitalOcean

Simple, scalable cloud computing platform

DigitalOcean launched on April 4, 2014 with 194 votes, #14 of 1,174 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 12 years on.

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What it does

DigitalOcean is a computing platform was built with simplicity at the forefront, so managing infrastructure is easy, whether your business is running one virtual machine or ten thousand. DigitalOcean gets out of your way so teams can build, deploy, and scale cloud applications faster and more efficiently.

Run AI products in production with a unified stack for agents, inference, and cloud—built for control, performance, and economics at scale.

One integrated platform, silicon to agent, with economics that improve as you scale. Serverless inference, intelligent routing, and 80+ models. No infrastructure to wrangle. Route every request to the right model, and pay only for the intelligence you use. From real-time agents to trillion-token workloads, leaders in AI run on DigitalOcean. Workato runs 1T+ automation tasks on DigitalOcean's Inference Engine at 67% lower cost — with 67% higher throughput on the same workload. Character.ai handles 1B+ queries per day with 2× production inference throughput on DigitalOcean's AMD Instinct ™ GPUs. Hippocratic AI runs healthcare agents on DigitalOcean, powering 20M+ patient interactions with 40%…from digitalocean.com

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