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maybe because digital ocean has and will always be a VPS company, they are not cloud.

What do you think makes the separation between a "cloud" provider and a VPS company?

The glib answer is that a cloud provider understands the need for a private network.

But, in that is a deeper truth: a VPS is a cheaper machine. It becomes "cloud" when you use many machines together. If you're using many machines, you really want intercommunication between those machines to be easy, fast and - yes - reasonably secure.

They claim to be a "cloud hosting" platform, though, which is the confusing bit.

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