The first public cloud platform we are going to look at is DigitalOcean. DigitalOcean is a little different from the big three we are going to be looking at in the following sections as it has fewer features. For example, on the product page DigitalOcean has eight features listed, whereas the AWS product page has eighteen main areas listed and each of these areas is split into six or more features and services.
Don't let this fool you into thinking that DigitalOcean is any less of a service than the other public cloud providers we are going to be looking at this in this chapter.
DigitalOcean's strong point is that it is an extremely simple-to-use hosting platform. With its straightforward API and command-line tools, its supporting services, and excellent management interface it is easy to bring up powerful yet very competitively...