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Begin VS Digital Ocean App Platform
Begin
Begin is a cloud platform for building, deploying, and managing serverless applications. It offers a range of features for building and deploying applications quickly and easily, including support for a variety of programming languages, automatic scaling, and real-time monitoring.
One of the key features of Begin is its support for serverless functions. With Begin, you can build and deploy serverless functions as part of your application, and the platform will automatically scale your functions to meet demand. This makes it easy to build and deploy applications that are built around small, focused pieces of code that are only executed when they are needed.
Begin also provides a number of tools and services to help you manage your deployments, including analytics and monitoring, custom domain management, and integration with popular services like GitHub and Slack.
Digital Ocean App Platform
Digital Ocean App Platform is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that allows developers to build, deploy, and scale applications on top of DigitalOcean's infrastructure.
With the Digital Ocean App Platform, you can deploy your code with a single click, and the platform will take care of the rest, including provisioning servers, configuring load balancers, and scaling your application as needed. You can deploy a variety of different types of applications to the App Platform, including containerized applications, serverless functions, and static websites.
Begin
- Global CDN-based hosting
- Although it is not their primary concern, Authentication and Authorization may be achieved by using the other services
- Provide CI/CD functionality without requiring a specialised CLI
- Free tier and extra use fees are determined by the use of different providers
- incorporates services from Vercel, Firebase, Heroku, and more sources
- More adaptable, it may be used to create and launch many web apps with various characteristics
Digital Ocean App Platform
- Global CDN-based hosting
- enables the usage of unique authentication and authorisation sources
- Git-based workflow and built-in support for continuous integration and deployment allow for the customization of the pipeline with unique actions
- Pay-per-use fees are assessed according to the resources utilised
- connects to more services like GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket
- flexible, suitable for a variety of online applications, and offers more infrastructure control
| FrameWork | Begin | Digital Ocean App Platform |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | Learn more | Learn more |
| Infrastructure | AWS | DigitalOcean Cloud Cloudflare for CDN |
| Continuous deployment | ||
| Automated builds from Git | ||
| Instant rollbacks to any version | ||
| Site previews for every push | ||
| Compatible with all Static Site Generators | ||
| Notifications | Slack | |
| Team Management | ||
| Custom domains | ||
| Automatic HTTPS | ||
| Rewrites & Redirects | ||
| Password Protection | ||
| Websites | 5 | 3 |
| Build Minutes | N/A | 100 minutes /month |
| Concurrent builds | N/A | 1 |
| Bandwidth | N/A | 1 GB /app |
| Team Members | 1 | Unlimited |
| Build Time Per Deployment | N/A | 60 minutes |
| Build Memory Limit (in MiB) | N/A | 8192 MiB |
| Max team members before switch to custom pricing | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Git contributors have to be Team Members | ||
| Serverless Functions (API) | JavaScript | |
| Edge Functions | ||
| Background Functions | Workers | |
| CRON Jobs | Schedule functions | |
| CLI | doctl | |
| Extensions | ||
| Environment Variables | ||
| Build Logs | ||
| Build Canceling | ||
| Analytics | ||
| Authentication | ||
| Database | Begin Data | PostgreSQL |
| Asset Optimizations | ||
| A/B Testing | ||
| Form Handling | ||
| Data Storage | N/A | Spaces, compatible with Amazon S3 |
| Push Notifications | ||
| Machine Learning | ||
| Two-factor authentication | N/A | |
| Team Logs | ||
| SOC2 | N/A | |
| ISO27001 | N/A | |
| GDPR | ||
| Carbon Neutral | N/A | |
| Carbon-free Energy | N/A | Not clear policy |
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