With General Purpose Droplets, you can DO more than ever

DigitalOcean has introduced General Purpose Droplets with a 4:1 ratio of RAM to dedicated CPU. These new Droplets are now generally available and can be deployed in five global data centers. They are powered by Intel Xeon Platinum 8168 "Skylake" Processors, offering high-performance computing for production-grade applications. General Purpose Droplets provide consistent compute power and are suitable for highly trafficked web and application servers, databases, ad servers, gaming servers, caching fleets, and other time-sensitive use cases. They also include features such as blazing-fast SSD storage, optional Backups and Snapshots, monitoring and alerts, network firewalls, and more.