Cloudflare
CDN, DNS, WAF and DDoS protection — the front door of most sites.
- Freemium
- API
DigitalOcean's community tutorials cover server administration across Linux distributions, web servers, databases and deployment.
Their consistent quality is what sets them apart: articles follow a standard structure, state their prerequisites and version assumptions, and are updated when a distribution's defaults change — which is where most online tutorials fail.
They are free and provider-agnostic despite being published by a hosting company: the instructions work on any server, not only DigitalOcean's.
Hosting & Domains
CDN, DNS, WAF and DDoS protection — the front door of most sites.
Zero-config hosting for modern frontend frameworks.
Full cloud stack: compute, storage, database and networking.
Affordable domain registration with free WHOIS privacy.
Simple, predictably priced cloud servers.
Community for budget VPS deals and vendor warnings.