DigitalOcean is a cloud infrastructure provider focused on simplicity for developers and small-to-medium businesses. The platform serves over 600,000 customers with Droplets (virtual machines), managed Kubernetes, managed databases, Spaces (object storage), App Platform (PaaS), and Functions (serverless). DigitalOcean differentiates from AWS and GCP with straightforward pricing, a clean developer experience, and extensive tutorial content that has made it the go-to platform for developers learning cloud deployment.
DigitalOcean outages frequently involve specific data center regions, with networking issues between hypervisors and storage backends being the most common root cause. Droplet live migration failures during maintenance windows can cause unexpected restarts. Managed database connection pooling issues, Spaces object storage availability problems, and App Platform build system queuing are recurring incident types across the platform.
When DigitalOcean goes down, Droplets become unreachable, managed databases disconnect, and Spaces-hosted assets return errors. Applications running on App Platform fail to serve traffic. Managed Kubernetes clusters lose connectivity to worker nodes. For the many startups and small businesses running their entire infrastructure on DigitalOcean, a regional outage can mean complete application unavailability with no easy failover to another region.
Use this page to check DigitalOcean availability. DigitalOcean outages are often region-specific, so your Droplets in one region may be fine while another region experiences issues. Check status.digitalocean.com for per-region and per-service status details.
Droplet connectivity issues can result from DigitalOcean network outages, hypervisor failures, or Droplet-level problems. Check the DigitalOcean console for your Droplet's status. If the console shows it as running but you can't SSH in, try accessing via the web console. If multiple Droplets in the same region are affected, it's likely a platform issue.
AWS offers more availability zones and regions for redundancy, while DigitalOcean provides simpler infrastructure with fewer redundancy options. DigitalOcean's managed services include automated failover for databases and Kubernetes. For mission-critical workloads requiring multi-region failover, AWS offers more sophisticated disaster recovery options.
Check status.digitalocean.com for incident details and estimated resolution time. If possible, failover to Droplets in unaffected regions. For managed databases, automatic failover should handle primary node failures. Save any unsent requests for retry after recovery. Contact DigitalOcean support through their ticket system for account-specific issues.
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