Since September 16th, 2024 we have chosen Google GCP as our new cloud service provider for running our Cardano stake pool nodes. The main reason to choose GCP over Digital Ocean is the static IP reservation. Other reason being its flexibility in customizing VPS as per requirement. Snapshot data size is less and it takes less time to create. New instances creation time is also less than DO. Firewall management is better in GCP.

We have kept DO as our backup cloud service provider. Node snapshots in DO can be used for droplet creation in no time as when required.