DigitalOcean is taking on Amazon, Microsoft, and Alphabet in the cloud computing space. Many years ago, businesses would collect customer and operational data and store it on physical servers located on-site. Today, they rent hardware capacity from enormous, centralized data centers instead for a fraction of the cost, which is a practice called cloud computing. Data-center operators like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Alphabet's Google Cloud dominate the cloud industry. Their services have expand ...