DigitalOcean Products

DigitalOcean Terminology

• Use “control panel” or “DigitalOcean Control Panel” to refer to cloud.digitalocean.com.

• Capitalize the following terms:

  • Anything preceded by “DigitalOcean”, like DigitalOcean Control Panel, DigitalOcean Load Balancer, and DigitalOcean Droplet Console, except for “DigitalOcean support plan(s)”
  • 1-Click Application
  • App Platform
  • Cloudways
  • Cloudways Academy
  • Droplet
  • Spaces
  • GenAI Platform
  • Model Playground
  • Agent Playground

• Lowercase regular nouns, like load balancer, data sources, volumes, and control panel.

• Use “Spaces bucket” the first time it is mentioned on a page, and just “bucket” on subsequent mentions.

• In alignment with our acronym style, spell out “DigitalOcean Kubernetes” and “DigitalOcean Container Registry” the first time they are mentioned on a page, and just “DOKS” and “DOCR” respectively on subsequent mentions.

DigitalOcean or DO?

Internally, we refer to our company as “DO” all the time. “DO” is a casual reference—like a nickname rather than a full name—so it isn’t always appropriate to refer to DigitalOcean as “DO” in external-facing content.

Generally, we should try to avoid using “DO” in titles as the audience we’re trying to reach (depending on the channel) often won’t, at a glance, associate “DO” with “DigitalOcean.”