DigitalOcean
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| Industry | Internet, cloud computing |
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| Founded | June 24, 2011 |
| Founders | Moisey Uretsky Ben Uretsky Jeff Carr Alec Hartman Mitch Wainer. |
| Headquarters | New York City, New York, U.S. |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Ben Uretsky (co-founder and CEO) |
| Services | Internet hosting service |
| Website | www |
DigitalOcean, Inc. is an American cloud infrastructure provider headquartered in New York City with data centers worldwide. DigitalOcean provides developers cloud services that help to deploy and scale applications that run simultaneously on multiple computers. As of December 2015, DigitalOcean was the second largest hosting company in the world in terms of web-facing computers.
In 2003, Ben and Moisey Uretsky who had founded ServerStack, a managed hosting business, wanted to create a new product which would combine the web hosting and virtual servers. The Uretskys, having surveyed the cloud hosting market felt that most hosting companies were targeting enterprise client leaving the entrepreneurial software developers market underserved. In 2011 the Uretskys founded DigitalOcean, a company which would provide server provisioning and cloud hosting for software developers.
In 2012 the Uretskys met co-founder Mitch Wainer following Wainer's response to a Craigslist job listing. The company launched their beta product in January 2012. By mid-2012, the founding team consisted of Ben Uretsky, Moisey Uretsky, Mitch Wainer, Jeff Carr, and Alec Hartman. After DigitalOcean was accepted into TechStars 2012's startup accelerator in Boulder, Colorado, the founders moved to Boulder to work on the product. By the end of the accelerator program, the company had signed up 400 customers and launched around 10,000 cloud server instances.
On January 15, 2013, DigitalOcean became one of the first cloud-hosting companies to offer SSD-based virtual machines. Following a TechCrunch, review which was syndicated by Hacker News, DigitalOcean saw a rapid increase in customers. In December 2013, DigitalOcean opened its first European data center located in Amsterdam. By the end of December 2013, Netcraft reported that DigitalOcean was the fastest growing cloud hosting service in the world in terms of web-facing computer count. During 2014, the company continued its expansion, opening new data centers in Singapore and London. By May 2015, DigitalOcean became the second largest hosting provider in the world according to a report by Netcraft. During 2015 DigitalOcean expanded further with a data center in Toronto, Canada. Later in 2016 they continued expansion to Bangalore, India.
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