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DigitalOcean Alternative
Looking for a DigitalOcean alternative?
Cloudzy is the independent one.
AMD EPYC + NVMe + 40 Gbps · 12 global regions · plans from $2.48/mo.
Independent since 2008, never acquired, never VC-funded.
Starting at $2.48/mo · 50% off · 14-day money-back · No credit card required
~ ssh root@vps-cloudzy connected
root@vps-cloudzy:~# curl -s ifconfig.me
203.0.113.42
root@vps-cloudzy:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'model name' | head -1
model name : AMD EPYC 9554 64-Core Processor
root@vps-cloudzy:~# df -h / | tail -1
/dev/vda1 120G 1.2G 119G 1% /
root@vps-cloudzy:~# _
Cloudzy vs DigitalOcean at a glance
Cloudzy is an independent cloud-VPS provider operating since 2008 from 13 regions across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Plans start at $2.48/mo on AMD EPYC with DDR5, pure NVMe storage and 40 Gbps uplinks, alongside a dedicated IPv4, 60-second provisioning, and a 14-day money-back guarantee. Compared to DigitalOcean, a publicly-traded cloud platform. Cloudzy answers to builders, not shareholders, and is rated 4.7 / 5 by 766+ reviewers on Trustpilot.
- Cloudzy founded
- 2008
- Starting price
- $2.48 / mo
- Provisioning
- 60 seconds
- Regions
- 13 worldwide
- Uptime SLA
- 99.95%
- Money-back
- 14 days
Why builders pick Cloudzy
The independent alternative.
Four reasons builders move from DigitalOcean to Cloudzy.
Independent since 2008
17 years building the same product. Never acquired. Never VC-owned. Roadmap set by what builders need, not by quarterly earnings.
14-day money-back
Try Cloudzy for two weeks. Don't like it? Full refund, no questions asked. Crypto, PayPal, or card, your call.
99.95% uptime SLA
Live status at status.cloudzy.com. We publish last-30-day numbers, not aggregate yearly averages that hide outages.
Real human support
Live chat replies typically under 5 minutes. Engineers, not script-readers. Available 24/7 in every plan tier.
Side-by-side
Six dimensions where we differ.
We won't trash-talk DigitalOcean, they're a real platform. But here's where Cloudzy makes a different choice.
Dimension
Cloudzy
DigitalOcean
Independence
Independent since 2008, no acquisitions, no VC ownership
DigitalOcean is publicly traded
Pricing
Flat monthly rates from $2.48/mo · 50% off · hourly billing too
Public-cloud-style billing
Support
Live human chat in minutes · median resolution under 1 hour
Tiered support, depends on plan
Network
40 Gbps uplink · pure NVMe · AMD EPYC + DDR5
Varies by region and plan
Locations
13 regions across NA, EU, ME, Asia
Multiple global regions
Money-back
14-day money-back · crypto + card + PayPal
Trial credit policy varies
Comparisons are qualitative, for current pricing and SLAs always check both providers' live pricing pages.
Benchmarks
Every provider says "fast."
Here's what fast looks like, measured.
We ran standardized tests on production Cloudzy hardware and cross-referenced against DigitalOcean's published results on vpsbenchmarks.com. Same benchmark tool, Geekbench 6, used by both sides. This is a direct comparison, not an estimate.
CPU. Geekbench 6, head to head.
| Cloudzy | DigitalOcean | |
|---|---|---|
| Plan | Dedicated VPS · 2 vCPU · 2 GB DDR5 | Premium Intel 2 vCPU / 4 GB |
| Monthly price | $14.47 | $24.00 |
| GB6 single-core | 1,079 | 808 – 965 (range across published runs) |
| GB6 multi-core | 1,886 | 1,392 – 1,677 (range across published runs) |
| Core type | Dedicated AMD EPYC | Shared vCPU |
| Test basis | Median of 20 production runs | Multiple published runs (vpsbenchmarks.com) |
Cloudzy scores up to 33% faster on single-core and up to 35% faster on multi-core, at $9.53 less per month.
DigitalOcean's published Geekbench 6 results vary significantly across runs on their own infrastructure. Single-core scores range from 808 to 965, multi-core from 1,392 to 1,677. That spread isn't noise. It reflects the real-world variability of shared CPU pools, where your performance depends on what your neighbors are doing at any given moment. Cloudzy exceeds even the best DO single-core result (965) by 114 points, on hardware that doesn't share CPU time with anyone.
Why "dedicated" isn't just a label.
DigitalOcean's Premium Intel plans run on shared vCPUs. Your cores come from a physical core pool split across multiple tenants. When the pool is busy, your cores get less. When a reviewer benchmarks on a quiet instance, the pool isn't busy. The score variation across DigitalOcean's own published runs, 157 points on single-core alone, is that effect in action.
The technical proof is CPU steal time, the fraction of your scheduled CPU cycles the hypervisor quietly reassigns to another VM without your workload knowing.
0.000%
Cloudzy CPU steal time
Measured across 20 consecutive production runs under sustained load. Zero every time. A zero steal reading means the dedicated core guarantee is real, not aspirational, every scheduled cycle reaches your workload.
1.93×
Sysbench multi-core scaling ratio
Multi-core throughput divided by single-core, against a theoretical maximum of 2.00× for two fully independent cores. On an overcommitted shared CPU pool this ratio drops, physical cores contend for time. 1.93× means they don't, the cores are genuinely isolated.
Additional Cloudzy performance metrics
vpsbenchmarks.com doesn't run these tests. We do, and we publish them.
| Metric | Result | CV | What it measures |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sysbench integer throughput · single-core | 1,010.5 EPS | 0.5% | Raw per-core compute under sustained prime-number load |
| Sysbench integer throughput · multi-core | 1,961.1 EPS | 1.4% | Aggregate compute, both cores simultaneously |
| Sysbench scaling ratio | 1.93× | 1.3% | Core isolation proof, 1.93 of a possible 2.00 |
| UnixBench · single-process | 725.9 | 2.0% | Composite: arithmetic, I/O, pipe throughput, system calls |
| UnixBench · multi-process | 1,506.5 | 2.7% | Full workload suite, all cores |
| CPython 3.12 full source compile | 124 s | 2.2% | Build Python from scratch, 400 C files, 2+ min of real sustained load |
| DDR5 memory read bandwidth | 81,648 MB/s | 2.0% | What your application actually reads from RAM, not the spec-sheet ceiling |
CV = coefficient of variation (stddev ÷ median × 100). Below 5% means the number is stable run to run, this is the floor, not a peak.
Performance per dollar
| Cloudzy | DO Premium Intel | DO Basic / Regular | DO CPU-Optimized | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly price | $14.47 | $24.00 | $24.00 | $42.00 |
| RAM | 2 GB | 4 GB | 4 GB | 4 GB |
| CPU type | Dedicated | Shared | Shared | Dedicated |
| GB6 single-core (best published) | 1,079 | 965 | 884 | 1,124 |
| GB6 pts per dollar (single) | 74.57 | 40.21 | 36.83 | 26.76 |
| GB6 multi-core (best published) | 1,886 | 1,677 | 1,518 | 1,337 |
| GB6 pts per dollar (multi) | 130.34 | 69.88 | 63.25 | 31.83 |
Cloudzy delivers 85% more Geekbench 6 single-core performance per dollar than DigitalOcean's nearest comparable plan (Premium Intel, best published run), on dedicated hardware. At DigitalOcean's worst published single-core score (808, on a Premium Intel instance), Cloudzy's performance-per-dollar advantage widens to 121%.
Want dedicated cores from DigitalOcean? That's the CPU-Optimized plan at $42/month, the most expensive option in this comparison. Its best published single-core score, 1,124, does edge out Cloudzy's 1,079 by about 4%. But at $42/month it costs 66% more, and its performance-per-dollar ratio, 26.76 points per dollar, is the lowest of any plan shown here. Cloudzy, at $14.47/month, achieves 74.57 points per dollar, the highest ratio in the table by a wide margin.
On the data.
Cloudzy's figures are medians from 20 consecutive runs on live production infrastructure, the same machines billing customers between test windows, not provisioned showcase instances. Every CPU metric carries a coefficient of variation below 3%. These aren't peaks. They're baselines.
DigitalOcean's Geekbench 6 results come from multiple published runs on vpsbenchmarks.com. Those runs show meaningful variance, up to 19% spread on single-core within the same plan tier. A single run is not a baseline. It's a moment in time. A range of runs reveals what the hardware actually delivers across varying load conditions.
Use cases
Why builders pick Cloudzy
over DigitalOcean.
Personal VPN & privacy
WireGuard, OpenVPN, or Outline in 5 minutes. Static dedicated IP. No big-cloud telemetry, no shareholder pressure on your traffic data.
Dev & staging environments
Hourly billing means a 4 GB staging box costs pennies for a CI run. Spin up, test, tear down. Same UX as droplets, predictable monthly bill.
Containers & k3s
Pre-installed Docker, ready for k3s, microk8s, or your own k8s. Run game servers, databases, your own platform, no managed-cluster lock-in.
Always-on bots & workers
Trading bots, scraping workers, queue runners. Sub-millisecond broker latency on the right region. No cold starts, no surprise egress bills.
AI inference & API serving
Pre-baked CUDA images on every GPU plan. Serve LLMs, run vLLM/TGI, host your model behind your own API, without big-cloud lock-in.
60s
Provisioning
40 Gbps
Uplink
NVMe-only
Storage
13
Regions
99.95%
Uptime SLA
14 days
Money-back
Global network
13 regions. Four continents.
One click away.
Drop your VPS as close to your users as physics allows. Median P50 latency under 10 ms in North America and Europe.
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Pricing
Pay for what you use. That's it.
Hourly, monthly, or yearly. No egress fees. No commitments. Currently 50% off all plans.
512 MB DDR5
Sandbox · Personal projects
$2.48 /mo
$4.95/mo −50%
Deploy now 14-day money-back
- 1 vCPU @ EPYC
- 20 GB NVMe
- 1 TB · 40 Gbps
- Dedicated IPv4 + IPv6
- Root SSH · KVM
1 GB DDR5
Small sites · Side projects
$3.48 /mo
$6.95/mo −50%
Deploy now 14-day money-back
- 1 vCPU @ EPYC
- 25 GB NVMe
- 1 TB · 40 Gbps
- Dedicated IPv4 + IPv6
- Root SSH · KVM
2 GB DDR5
Busy WordPress · APIs
$7.475 /mo
$14.95/mo −50%
Deploy now 14-day money-back
- 1 vCPU @ EPYC
- 60 GB NVMe
- 3 TB · 40 Gbps
- Dedicated IPv4 + IPv6
- Root SSH · KVM
Most popular
4 GB DDR5
Production · AI inference
$14.47 /mo
$28.95/mo −50%
Deploy now 14-day money-back
- 2 vCPU @ EPYC
- 120 GB NVMe
- 5 TB · 40 Gbps
- Dedicated IPv4 + IPv6
- Root SSH · KVM
FAQ. Cloudzy vs DigitalOcean
Common questions, straight answers.
Is Cloudzy cheaper than DigitalOcean?
Cloudzy plans start at $2.48/mo (50% off, currently). We don't publish DigitalOcean's prices here because they change, check both side-by-side before you decide. What we do guarantee: flat monthly rates, no egress fees inside your transfer allotment, and a 14-day money-back guarantee on every plan.
Can I migrate my droplet from DigitalOcean to Cloudzy?
Yes. Snapshot your droplet, download the image, then upload it to Cloudzy via our custom-ISO support, or rebuild fresh from one of our one-click images (Ubuntu, Debian, AlmaLinux, Rocky, Fedora, Arch, openSUSE). For larger fleets, our support team can help orchestrate the move at no extra cost.
Is the data center quality similar?
Cloudzy runs on AMD EPYC + DDR5 + pure NVMe with 40 Gbps uplinks across 13 regions in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Independent benchmarks of single-thread performance and disk I/O are competitive with any tier-one VPS provider.
What makes Cloudzy "independent"?
Cloudzy has been operating since 2008 with no acquisitions and no VC ownership. DigitalOcean is a publicly-traded company answering to shareholders every quarter. Independent means our roadmap is set by what builders need, not by quarterly earnings calls.
Does Cloudzy support crypto payments?
Yes. Bitcoin, Ethereum, USDT and a few other major coins. Plus the usual Visa, Mastercard, AmEx, Discover, and PayPal. Wire transfer is available for annual contracts over $1,000.
What's included on every plan?
Dedicated IPv4 + IPv6, root SSH access, NVMe storage, 40 Gbps uplink, free DDoS protection, free snapshots, hourly billing, and 24/7 human support. No hidden egress fees inside your transfer allotment.
How fast does a server provision?
60 seconds from payment to root SSH. You'll get an email with the IP, root password, and SSH connection string within seconds of confirming the order.
What's the uptime guarantee?
99.95% SLA. Last-30-day uptime is publicly tracked at status.cloudzy.com, no hiding behind aggregate yearly numbers.
Where are your data centers?
13 regions: 5 in the US (Utah, Dallas, LA, NYC, Miami), 4 in Europe (Amsterdam, London, Frankfurt, Bern), Dubai for the Middle East, plus Singapore and Tokyo in Asia. Pick the closest one to your users.
Is there a money-back guarantee?
Yes, 14 days from purchase, no questions asked, full refund. Apply from the panel or email [email protected].
Ready when you are.
Independent cloud in 60 seconds.
Try Cloudzy for two weeks. If we're not the DigitalOcean alternative you wanted, we refund the full amount, no questions.
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