Hosting Strapi on DigitalOcean Droplets

Pricing data as of 2026-08-28 · refreshed weekly

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DigitalOcean Droplets is a vps platform. Strapi needs roughly 1024MB RAM for a production server process, so the cheapest plan that actually fits depends on your traffic. Below is the cheapest DigitalOcean Droplets plan that fits each traffic level, computed from current list prices.

Note: the 1024MB figure is for serving the built app. Production builds (next buildand friends) are heavier and belong in CI or on your laptop — run them on the same small instance and you'll hit out-of-memory errors that say nothing about its serving capacity.

Cheapest fitting plan by traffic

TrafficPlan$/monthNotes
Hobby / side project (~5,000/mo)Basic 1GB$625GB SSD
Startup / small business (~50,000/mo)Basic 1GB$625GB SSD
E-commerce (~200,000/mo)Basic 1GB$625GB SSD
High traffic (~1,000,000/mo)Basic 2GB$1250GB SSD
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