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You run workloads on DigitalOcean as Droplets: Linux VMs you provision, SSH into, and administer yourself. Orgo gives an AI agent a full, always-on computer (browser, shell, and files) that it drives over the HTTP API, the orgo CLI, or MCP. This page maps the two and shows the cleanest way to move.
Doing this with an agent? Paste this page into Claude Code or Codex as context. Every command is copy-paste and self-contained, so the agent can run the switch end to end.

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How the platforms map

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Move your state

Orgo runs any shell command inside the computer via POST /computers/{id}/bash. The cleanest transfer is to pull your data in from inside the computer: no upload cap beyond the computer’s free disk, and no laptop round-trip. A /bash call runs for 200 seconds unless you send timeout, which goes up to 300, so start a longer pull in a detached tmux session. DigitalOcean snapshots can’t be downloaded off-platform, so pull the files over SSH rather than exporting an image. Recommended: via a Git repo. Push the state you want to keep to a private repo, then clone it inside the Orgo computer:
Alternatives
  • Any URL. Host the tarball anywhere reachable and curl/wget it from inside the computer the same way. A Git repo is the tidiest, versioned option.
  • Files up to 2 GB. Start large upload (POST /files/uploads) returns a signed URL. PUT the file to it, then call Complete large upload (POST /files/uploads/complete), and the computer pulls the file into place. The computer must be running for that last step.
  • Files up to 10 MB. Upload file (POST /files/upload) stores a file in the workspace and pushes it to the computers that are running.
Reference: Connect via SSH, Transfer files (scp/rsync are standard OpenSSH tools).

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Set up on Orgo

See the Quickstart for the full control surface (bash, exec, screenshot, click/type).

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What’s different

Neutral, both directions:
  • DigitalOcean does, Orgo doesn’t: a general-purpose Linux server you fully own, with arbitrary services and ports, many hardware tiers (incl. GPU), first-class public networking (reserved IPs, managed DNS, firewalls, load balancers).
  • Orgo does, DigitalOcean doesn’t out of the box: a persistent GUI computer with a built-in agent-control API (screenshot / click / type), online in seconds, with no server to administer. You manage no OS, no firewall, and no TLS. (Droplet firewalls are default-deny.)
  • Backups, on both: DigitalOcean takes scheduled backups of a Droplet once you enable them. Orgo backs up running Linux and Windows computers daily and keeps each backup for 7 days.
Rule of thumb: keep general server workloads and public-facing services on a Droplet. Move to Orgo when the job is an agent operating a durable computer or browser.

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Reference

DigitalOcean Droplets

Their VM

Transfer files

scp / rsync / SFTP

Orgo Quickstart

Control a computer over HTTP

Move an agent (Hermes/OpenClaw)

Full state-preserving playbook