Server providers
DigitalOcean
Simple, predictable cloud hosting.
DigitalOcean made its name by stripping the complexity out of cloud hosting: flat monthly pricing, a clean control panel and documentation half the internet learned Linux from. Droplets boot in under a minute and cost exactly what the price list says. Connect your DigitalOcean account to Rocketeers and that simplicity goes one step further — servers are provisioned, hardened and configured for production without you opening a terminal.
What you get with DigitalOcean
- Droplets created in any DigitalOcean region, across the US, Europe, Asia and Australia.
- Flat, predictable monthly pricing with bandwidth included — no surprise line items at the end of the month.
- Automatic server hardening: firewall, SSH configuration and security updates from the first boot.
- Web server, PHP and database installed and tuned for production automatically.
- Billing stays on your own DigitalOcean account, so team billing, credits and invoicing work as they always did.
How the integration works
Generate a personal access token in the DigitalOcean control panel (API → Tokens) with read and write scopes, and add it to Rocketeers. Rocketeers then uses the DigitalOcean API to create the Droplet, attach your SSH keys, configure networking and install the full server stack. After provisioning it keeps managing the machine — updates, monitoring and site deployments — while the Droplet itself remains an ordinary server in your account that you can inspect any time.
Good to know
- Droplets are billed hourly up to a monthly cap, so short-lived staging servers only cost you for the hours they exist.
- Every Droplet includes a pooled bandwidth allowance; most sites never come close to exceeding it.
- The API is rate-limited to 5,000 requests per hour per token — far more than routine server management ever needs.
- Regular shared-CPU Droplets suit most sites; move to dedicated-CPU plans when you host consistently CPU-hungry workloads.