What is "digitalocean"

DigitalOcean, Inc. is an American cloud infrastructure provider that provisions virtual servers for software developers. The company is headquartered in New York City and possesses data centers worldwide. DigitalOcean provides cloud services that help developers deploy and scale applications that run on multiple computers simultaneously.

DigitalOcean was founded in 2011 by Ben Uretsky, Moisey Uretsky, Mitch Wainer, Jeff Carr, and Alec Hartman. The company received $123.21 million in funding across four venture rounds from Techstars, CrunchFund, Andreessen Horowitz, Access Industries and IA Ventures. It has also raised $180 million in debt financing from Fortress Investment Group and KeyBanc Capital Markets.

As of December 2015, DigitalOcean is the second largest hosting company in the world in terms of web-facing computers.