What I’ll be comparing:
- DigitalOcean $6.00/month Droplet
- Replit $6.40/month Deployment
Specs:
- vCPUs
DO: 1vCPU
Replit: 0.25vCPU - RAM
DO: 1GiB
Replit: 1GiB - Storage
DO: 25GiB, persistent
Replit: Account-based, non-persistent - Egress traffic:
DO: 1,000GiB then $0.01/GiB
Replit: 10GiB then $0.10/GiB
Services:
- Backup
DO: 5% total cost/month
Replit: IDE “history”, no preserved drive - Vertical/Horizontal scaling
DO: Vertical & Horizontal
Replit: Neither - DNS management
DO: Free
Replit: Free, one domain - Firewall
DO: Built-in
Replit: “this Repl is too popular” lmao - Database, lowest tier
DO: $15/month, 15GiB disk, MongoDB (MySQL is 10GiB disk)
Replit: $10/month, 10GiB disk, MySQL
VM capabilities:
- Virtual machine choice
DO: Many Linux flavours, automatically copied, free
Replit: you get what you get - Sudo mode
DO: 100% admin access
Replit: womp womp - IP Address
DO: Static, reserved, 16 ivp6 addresses? Spoilt with internet.
Replit: Floating. One address. - Supported inbound/outbound protocols
DO: Everything
Replit: HTTPS only.
Replit ties… once or twice, depending on what database you like. Winning? Once, for convenience … But I’m sure someone deploying an app that’s minimum $6/month can figure out how to use DigitalOcean.