Service comparison

DigitalOcean vs. Linode

DigitalOcean vs. Linode — reliability, API availability, and incident frequency head-to-head.

Last 90 days · 57 incidents total · Data via Pulsetic monitoring

Head-to-head

90-day summary

DigitalOcean

digitalocean.com

Online
- 90-day uptime
  
  88.77%
- Incidents (90d)
  
  31
  
  4 major · 27 minor
- Median resolution
  
  3h 44m
- Longest outage
  
  50h 42m
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Linode

linode.com

Online
- 90-day uptime
  
  66.43%
- Incidents (90d)
  
  26
  
  0 major · 26 minor
- Median resolution
  
  3h 5m
- Longest outage
  
  282h 51m
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Uptime over time

Availability across windows

Window	DigitalOcean	Linode	Δ
Last 24 hours	100.00%	100.00%	0.00 pp
Last 7 days	93.24%	100.00%	-6.76 pp
Last 30 days	92.73%	90.80%	+1.93 pp
Last 90 days	88.77%	66.43%	+22.34 pp

Δ is percentage-point difference (DigitalOcean minus Linode). Higher is better.

Incidents 90-day

Severity breakdown

DigitalOcean

31 total

4 major 27 minor
- Median resolution
  
  3h 44m
- Longest outage
  
  50h 42m
Linode

26 total

0 major 26 minor
- Median resolution
  
  3h 5m
- Longest outage
  
  282h 51m

Recent activity

Last 5 incidents, side-by-side

DigitalOcean
- Sep 16
  
  Support Portal Service Disruption
  
  11h 21m
  
  Minor
- Sep 9
  
  Power Degradation impacting GPU Performance in ATL1
  
  1h 38m
  
  Minor
- Aug 24
  
  Cloud Control Panel and API
  
  1d 1h 49m
  
  Major
- Aug 23
  
  Managed Databases Creation
  
  9h 21m
  
  Minor
- Aug 21
  
  Container Registry and Spaces Accessibility
  
  1h 52m
  
  Minor
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Linode
- Sep 7
  
  Service Issue - Cloud Manager and API
  
  2h 52m
  
  Minor
- Aug 28
  
  Service Issue - US-SEA (Seattle, WA)
  
  7h 18m
  
  Minor
- Aug 24
  
  Service Issue - Object Storage - US-SEA
  
  3h 18m
  
  Minor
- Aug 21
  
  Service Issue - US-SEA (Seattle, WA)
  
  4h 35m
  
  Minor
- Aug 14
  
  Connectivity Issue - IT-MIL (Milan) data center
  
  1h 17m
  
  Minor
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Bottom line

DigitalOcean wins

DigitalOcean edges out on 90-day uptime.

DigitalOcean posted 88.77% vs. 66.43% for Linode (Δ +22.34 pp). Incidents: 31 vs. 26 (+5).

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