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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.Helping millions of developers easily build, test, manage, and scale applications of any size – faster than ever before. DigitalOcean offers virtual private servers (VPS), or "droplets" using DigitalOcean terminology, using KVM as the hypervisor and can be created in various sizes (divided in 2 classes: standard, and optimized), in 12 different data center regions (as of April 2018) and with various options out of the box, including 6 GNU/Linux distributions and dozens of one-click applications. In early 2017, DigitalOcean expanded their feature set by adding load balancers to their offering. DigitalOcean can be managed through a web interface or using doctl command line. DigitalOcean also offers block and object-based storage and since May 2018 Kubernetes-based container service.