Engineering capabilities
- Droplet sizing and region selection
- VPC, floating IP and load balancer setup
- Managed database and block storage integration
- Snapshot and off-provider backup strategy
Cloud & Virtualization
DigitalOcean
Developer-oriented cloud with predictable droplet pricing, used where a small managed footprint beats running your own hypervisor.
Security & hardening
- Cloud firewall rules with default-deny inbound
- SSH key-only access and disabled password login
- Team accounts with MFA and scoped API tokens
DigitalOcean reference architecture
A small managed footprint: public entry is narrowed to a load balancer, application droplets stay on a private VPC and backups leave the provider.
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Edge
- Public DNS
- Load balancer
- Cloud firewall
Only 80/443 is public; administrative access arrives over a bastion or VPN.
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Compute
- Application droplets
- VPC private network
- Floating IP
Droplets sized from measured load, placed in one region with a documented failover plan.
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Data
- Managed database
- Block storage
- Object storage
Database access is limited to the VPC; storage volumes are separated from the OS disk.
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Protection
- Snapshots
- Off-provider copy
- Restore test
A copy is held outside DigitalOcean so a provider-side account issue is not a total loss.
Frequently asked questions
Are droplet snapshots a backup?
Not on their own. They live in the same account as the workload, so a copy is also written to a second provider or on-premises target and restore-tested.
When is DigitalOcean the wrong fit?
When you need enterprise networking, compliance attestations or region breadth that only the large hyperscalers publish. For a handful of application servers it is usually cheaper and simpler.
Can you migrate an existing VPS in?
Yes u2014 the environment is inventoried, rebuilt from configuration, tested in parallel, then cut over in a scheduled window with rollback ready.
Scope the work before you commit budget
Send the environment details and get an engineered proposal with assumptions, risks and a rollback path.