The Sovereign DigitalOcean Alternative in India
Published plans in Noida and an INR invoice, for users in northern India.
Should you switch from DigitalOcean?
Move if your users are in northern India, you want a GST invoice instead of a dollar card charge, and the workload fits a published VM, a VPC or TejasDeploy. Stay on DigitalOcean if you depend on managed databases, Spaces, App Platform, Kubernetes, or regions outside India. Managed databases and object storage are not on the DataDack rate card yet.
Who should move, and who should stay
Switch to DataDack if
- Apps whose users are in Delhi NCR and northern India
- Teams that want an INR invoice with GST rather than a USD card charge
- Workloads that fit a published VM plan, a VPC, or a git-push deploy
- Anyone who wants L3/L4 DDoS included on the VM
Stay on DigitalOcean if
- You depend on DigitalOcean managed databases, Spaces or App Platform
- You need Kubernetes as a managed product
- You need regions outside India
- You want an arbitrary vCPU, RAM and disk combination rather than a published plan
Why teams move from DigitalOcean to DataDack
Priced in rupees
Flat monthly or hourly compute in INR. Prices exclude GST. A GST invoice is issued. Traffic inside a VPC is ₹0/GB.
ap-south-3 Noida
Tier-IV facilities in Noida (ap-south-3). Data stays in India. Consent and retention under the DPDP Act stay with your application.
DDoS Protection
Always-on L3/L4 volumetric attack mitigation standard on every single virtual instance.
DataDack vs DigitalOcean pricing
A DataDack virtual machine starts at ₹1,150/mo (₹2.53/hr) for 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM and 30 GB SAS HDD. Prices exclude GST. A GST invoice is issued. Billing is hourly, with a monthly cap. The table is DataDack's rate card. DigitalOcean's list price is not published here, so this page does not invent a percentage.
Reserved monthly rates in the Noida ap-south-3 region.
| Specification | DataDack |
|---|---|
| 2 vCPU / 4 GB RAM / 30 GB SAS HDD | ₹1,150/mo (₹2.53/hr) |
| 4 vCPU / 16 GB RAM / 30 GB SSD | ₹6,500/mo (₹14.25/hr) |
| 8 vCPU / 16 GB RAM / 30 GB NVMe | ₹11,330/mo (₹24.83/hr) |
- L3/L4 DDoS protection is included on every plan
- One IPv4 address is included
- Traffic inside a VPC is ₹0/GB
- Tenant bandwidth is 1 Gbps shared
Detailed Feature Matrix: DataDack vs DigitalOcean
Side-by-side technical and operational benchmark comparison
| Feature / Capability | DataDack Cloud | DigitalOcean |
|---|---|---|
| Indian region | Noida (ap-south-3), Tier-IV | Bangalore, plus regions in the US, Europe, Singapore, Toronto and Sydney |
| Billing | Flat INR. Prices exclude GST. A GST invoice is issued. | USD card charge |
| Managed databases and object storage | Not on the rate card yet | Managed databases and Spaces are products DigitalOcean sells |
| App deploy | TejasDeploy: git push and a preview per pull request | App Platform |
| DDoS on a VM | L3/L4 included on every VM | Platform filtering. This page does not price DigitalOcean's DDoS product. |
| Bandwidth | 1 Gbps shared. Traffic inside a VPC is ₹0/GB. | A transfer pool, then a per-GB charge |
Moving off DigitalOcean, step by step
- Step 1Inventory what runs on DigitalOcean today — instance sizes, disks, open ports and DNS records.
- Step 2Pick the matched DataDack plan and create the instance in the console, in the Noida ap-south-3 region.
- Step 3Move the data: restore from a snapshot or image, or sync the application and database over the VPC.
- Step 4Lower the DNS TTL, cut traffic over to the new IPv4 and verify, then destroy the source instance — billing stops the same hour.
What carries over unchanged
A move off DigitalOcean is a re-host, not a rewrite. These come with you as they are:
- Your Linux distro and kernel
- Docker and docker-compose files
- Nginx, Caddy or HAProxy configs
- Your CI pipeline - only the deploy target changes
- SSH keys and your existing automation
- Postgres, MySQL, Redis and their dumps
- Cron jobs and systemd units
- Your domain and TLS certificates
DataDack vs DigitalOcean: common questions
- What is a DigitalOcean alternative in India?
- DataDack, when the users are in northern India and the invoice needs to be in rupees with GST. The live region is Noida (ap-south-3). DigitalOcean's Indian region is Bangalore, and it bills in US dollars. This page does not state a percentage against DigitalOcean list prices.
- When should I stay on DigitalOcean?
- Stay when you use managed databases, Spaces, App Platform, or Kubernetes, or when you need a region outside India. DataDack does not sell those managed data services yet, and it does not run Bangalore.
- How does DataDack's pricing compare with DigitalOcean?
- A DataDack virtual machine starts at ₹1,150/mo (₹2.53/hr) for 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM and 30 GB. Prices exclude GST. A GST invoice is issued. L3/L4 DDoS and one IPv4 are included. Traffic inside a VPC is ₹0/GB. This page does not state a percentage against DigitalOcean, because no matched list price for DigitalOcean is published here.
- Where do workloads run after moving off DigitalOcean?
- In Noida (ap-south-3), inside Tier-IV facilities operated by Yotta NM1 and CtrlS. Data stays in India. Mumbai is announced and is not a region you can deploy into today. Storing data in India is not the same as the DPDP Act duties that stay with your application: consent, purpose and retention remain yours.
- Is DDoS protection included?
- L3/L4 mitigation is included on every VPS and VM, including the smallest plan. It is not a separate line on the DataDack rate card. Whether another provider includes the same thing is that provider's page, not a claim this one makes for them.
- How is bandwidth billed?
- Tenant bandwidth is 1 Gbps shared. Traffic between subnets inside a VPC is ₹0/GB. A NAT gateway is a flat monthly charge, with no per-GB processing surcharge on top. There is no unmetered attachment and no 10 Gbps tenant port.
- How do I move a single instance off DigitalOcean?
- Inventory the instance, the disk and the DNS record. Create a published DataDack plan in Noida, restore an image or sync the application and the database, lower the DNS TTL, then cut over. The new instance bills hourly, with a monthly cap. Managed databases and object storage are not on the DataDack rate card yet, so a move that depends on those stays on DigitalOcean until they are. Ask on /contact if you want an engineer on the first cutover.