DigitalOcean Hosting
I set up and tune DigitalOcean droplets for WordPress: stack, caching, SSL, firewall, backups, and monitoring, then hand over a plain-English runbook. You get cloud speed at droplet prices without learning server administration.
850+ clients served, plenty of them rescued off overloaded shared hosting
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Work delivered for, or alongside, teams at:
What it costs
Everything below is included in the setup fee. The droplet itself is billed by DigitalOcean to your own account, and it stays your account.
Ongoing server management is available if you’d rather never touch a command line.
All prices include GST.
How this runs
I look at your traffic, stack, and budget, then spec the droplet and database tier that fits. Paying for idle capacity is the same mistake as shared hosting in reverse.
You leave with: a server spec matched to reality.
The server gets built and hardened before anything goes live: web stack, PHP, caching, SSL, firewall, and SSH lockdown, configured for your workload rather than left on defaults.
You leave with: a hardened, tuned stack.
Your site moves over and gets tested on the new server before DNS switches. The cutover is planned so visitors never see a hiccup.
You leave with: the same site on a faster home.
Monitoring and backup restores get verified, then you get a runbook in plain English: what runs where, what to check, and what to do when something looks wrong.
You leave with: a server your team can keep.
DigitalOcean’s price advantage is real, but only if the server is configured properly. A raw droplet on defaults is slower and less secure than the shared hosting you left.
So nothing stays on defaults: the stack is tuned for WordPress specifically, caching is layered correctly, and the firewall closes everything your site doesn’t use.
I document everything so you’re not locked to me. The runbook is the product as much as the server is.
— Gaurav
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₹12,000 fixed, and the price includes GST. That covers droplet sizing, the tuned server stack, caching, SSL, firewall and SSH hardening, tested backups, zero-downtime migration, and the handover runbook. The droplet itself is billed by DigitalOcean to your own account.
Yes, it offers fast SSD cloud servers at excellent prices. The catch is that a raw droplet needs proper setup and ongoing patching. Configured well, with the right stack and caching, it outperforms shared hosting that costs the same or more.
Cloudways puts a managed panel on top of a DigitalOcean droplet: less control, higher monthly cost, easier day-to-day. If you want the panel, I’ll set that up and tune it instead. The honest tradeoff is convenience versus price, and I’ll tell you which side your case lands on.
That’s your call, and it’s the one thing you shouldn’t skip deciding. The runbook covers routine care, your team can follow it, or I manage the server ongoing for a quoted retainer. What I won’t do is leave you believing a server maintains itself.
Yes, zero-downtime migration from your current host is included. The site gets built and tested on the droplet first, then DNS cuts over cleanly, so visitors never see the move happen.
About me
Everything I would put on your site is running on mine first.
Care clients get the same stack I trust with my own traffic: GT Performance, Cloudflare, Redis, Hetzner.
I was a teacher before I was a developer. I taught mathematics to competitive-exam students, which is why I explain hard things plainly instead of hiding behind jargon.
What I am actually good at is the join: technical SEO, fast front-ends, and content treated as one system instead of three vendors blaming each other.
Share your URL, monthly visitors, and what you pay now. I’ll reply with the droplet spec I’d use, the monthly cost, and the migration date.
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