Service comparison

DigitalOcean vs. Linode

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

Last 90 days · 64 incidents total · Data via Pulsetic monitoring

Head-to-head

90-day summary

DigitalOcean

digitalocean.com

Online
- 90-day uptime
  
  96.17%
- Incidents (90d)
  
  31
  
  4 major · 27 minor
- Median resolution
  
  1h 48m
- Longest outage
  
  16h 47m
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Linode

linode.com

Ongoing incident
- 90-day uptime
  
  68.54%
- Incidents (90d)
  
  33
  
  3 major · 30 minor
- Median resolution
  
  4h 46m
- Longest outage
  
  162h 9m
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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	99.68%	83.99%	+15.69 pp
Last 30 days	98.55%	72.43%	+26.12 pp
Last 90 days	96.17%	68.54%	+27.63 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
  
  1h 48m
- Longest outage
  
  16h 47m
Linode

33 total

3 major 30 minor
- Median resolution
  
  4h 46m
- Longest outage
  
  162h 9m

Recent activity

Last 5 incidents, side-by-side

DigitalOcean
- Jun 27
  
  Droplet Backup Service
  
  < 1m
  
  Minor
- Jun 27
  
  Anthropic Inference Model Availability
  
  32m
  
  Minor
- Jun 19
  
  Monitoring Graphs in the Cloud Control Panel
  
  2h 37m
  
  Minor
- Jun 16
  
  Intermittent 500 Errors on Serverless/GenAI Inference API
  
  2h 28m
  
  Minor
- Jun 11
  
  DeepSeek V4 Pro is returning HTTP 429 "Rate limit exceeded"
  
  3h 17m
  
  Major
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Linode
- Jun 26
  
  Service Issue - ACLP Metrics
  
  Ongoing
  
  Minor
- Jun 26
  
  Connectivity Issue - US-IAD
  
  2h 18m
  
  Minor
- Jun 25
  
  Emerging Service Issue - Migrations
  
  4h 8m
  
  Minor
- Jun 24
  
  Emerging Service Issue - GPU Instances - All Regions
  
  1d 36m
  
  Minor
- Jun 24
  
  Service Issue - Debian Package Availability
  
  < 1m
  
  Minor
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Bottom line

DigitalOcean wins

DigitalOcean edges out on 90-day uptime.

DigitalOcean posted 96.17% vs. 68.54% for Linode (Δ +27.63 pp). Incidents: 31 vs. 33 (-2).

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