A DigitalOcean alternative, built for India
DigitalOcean is a real option for India — they run one regional datacentre, in Bangalore. This page is about what changes if you move that same workload to a host built around India specifically, not a claim that DigitalOcean is worse at what it does.
| Entry-level VPS | Getwebup | DigitalOcean |
|---|---|---|
| From | $4.69/mo | $6.00/mo (Basic Droplet, 1 vCPU / 1 GB / 25 GB SSD) |
| NVMe entry point | Every plan is NVMe | $7.00/mo (Premium Intel/AMD Droplet, 1 vCPU / 1 GB) |
| How plans work | Build your own — CPU, RAM and disk each sized independently, 5 TB of transfer included, extra $1.05 per TB a month | Fixed named tiers (Basic, Premium Intel, Premium AMD) |
| Virtualisation | KVM, full root | KVM-based, full root |
| India regions | 2 — Mumbai and Delhi | 1 — Bangalore |
| DDoS protection | L3 / L4 / L7, included on every plan | Automatic and free on every resource, no setup needed |
| Uptime SLA | 99.95%, credits on claim | 99.99% monthly, for CPU Droplets |
| Billing | ₹, GST invoice, no FX | USD - your bank converts it, usually with a foreign-transaction fee |
| Support | 24/7, based in IST | Free ticket-based support 24/7; paid plans add live chat and faster response |
Getwebup's current VPS pricing
Live from the same catalogue /vps quotes - not a snapshot, so this cannot drift out of date the way a typed number could. Priced per month and billed monthly, exclusive of 18% GST.
What every Getwebup server includes
What comes with every server, on the smallest size as on the largest — none of it is an add-on.
- Dedicated IPv4 address
- IPv6 address — coming soon, on every server
- 5 TB of transfer a month on a VPS, 10 TB on a VDS, counted in and out. More is $1.05 per TB a month, up to 20 TB, exclusive of 18% GST.
- A network port from 100 Mbit/s on the smallest VPS (200 Mbit/s on a VDS), growing with the size of the server. Never billed.
- A cloud firewall run from the panel, and security groups — named rule sets you reuse across servers
- The server's own screen and keyboard in your browser, for when SSH or Remote Desktop will not answer
- SSH keys put on when it is built, or generated in the panel
- Free e-mail alerts when it goes down or comes back, and when CPU, memory or network stay high
- Live usage and graphs of CPU, memory, disk and network, by the hour up to the year
Transfer resets each calendar month. If a server uses all of it, it is disconnected or slowed until the month ends or you add more.
DigitalOcean's entry-level Droplets
Read directly from the pricing data DigitalOcean's own page ships, checked 22 September 2026. Billed hourly in USD; the figure below is the monthly cap.
| Droplet | Price | vCPU | RAM | Disk | Transfer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic (512 MB) | $4.00/mo | 1 | 512 MB | 10 GB SSD | 500 GB |
| Basic (1 GB) | $6.00/mo | 1 | 1 GB | 25 GB SSD | 1 TB |
| Premium Intel/AMD (1 GB) | $7.00/mo | 1 | 1 GB | 25 GB NVMe | 1 TB |
| Basic (2 GB) | $12.00/mo | 1 | 2 GB | 50 GB SSD | 2 TB |
Where DigitalOcean makes sense
A higher published uptime SLA, a much larger global region count if India is only part of your footprint, and a deep managed-services ecosystem (App Platform, managed databases, Kubernetes) that Getwebup doesn't attempt to compete with. If you need one account spanning continents, that's a real reason to stay.
Where Getwebup makes sense
A second Indian region rather than one, billing in rupees with a GST invoice instead of a USD charge your bank marks up, DDoS protection with no separate add-on to configure, and support in your working hours. If the deployment is staying in India, that's the case for a host built around India rather than one region of a global one.
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