Service comparison

Linode vs. DigitalOcean

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

Last 90 days · 66 incidents total · Data via Pulsetic monitoring

Head-to-head

90-day summary

Linode

linode.com

Ongoing incident
- 90-day uptime
  
  23.66%
- Incidents (90d)
  
  34
  
  0 major · 34 minor
- Median resolution
  
  4h 22m
- Longest outage
  
  1417h
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DigitalOcean

digitalocean.com

Online
- 90-day uptime
  
  91.66%
- Incidents (90d)
  
  32
  
  5 major · 27 minor
- Median resolution
  
  2h 38m
- Longest outage
  
  50h 42m
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Uptime over time

Availability across windows

Window	Linode	DigitalOcean	Δ
Last 24 hours	100.00%	100.00%	0.00 pp
Last 7 days	98.63%	91.17%	+7.46 pp
Last 30 days	56.95%	81.49%	-24.54 pp
Last 90 days	23.66%	91.66%	-68.00 pp

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

Incidents 90-day

Severity breakdown

Linode

34 total

0 major 34 minor
- Median resolution
  
  4h 22m
- Longest outage
  
  1417h
DigitalOcean

32 total

5 major 27 minor
- Median resolution
  
  2h 38m
- Longest outage
  
  50h 42m

Recent activity

Last 5 incidents, side-by-side

Linode
- Jul 20
  
  Connectivity Issue - Linodes in Milan, Italy
  
  2h 18m
  
  Minor
- Jul 18
  
  Service Issue - Object Storage
  
  1h 1m
  
  Minor
- Jul 16
  
  Connectivity Issue - US-MIA (Miami
  
  < 1m
  
  Minor
- Jul 14
  
  Service Issue - Linode API/CLI
  
  7h 5m
  
  Minor
- Jul 13
  
  Service Issue - Host Jobs - All Regions
  
  1h 24m
  
  Minor
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DigitalOcean
- Jul 24
  
  Network Connectivity from India to NYC
  
  2h 5m
  
  Minor
- Jul 23
  
  Llama-4-Maverick Model Availability
  
  1h 20m
  
  Minor
- Jul 22
  
  Gradient AI Serverless Inference Requests Timing Out for qwen3.5-397b-a17b
  
  2h 51m
  
  Minor
- Jul 19
  
  Block Storage Volume NYC1, NYC3, SGP1, SYD1 and BLR1
  
  5h 41m
  
  Minor
- Jul 19
  
  Networking in BLR1
  
  2h 54m
  
  Minor
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Bottom line

DigitalOcean wins

DigitalOcean edges out on 90-day uptime.

Linode posted 23.66% vs. 91.66% for DigitalOcean (Δ -68.00 pp). Incidents: 34 vs. 32 (+2).

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