[batuhanicoz]

It's always good to have your backup off-site. If something happens to DigitalOcean servers, your backups will be gone too.

[adamb_]

It also protects yourself in the event your relationship with DigitalOean goes sour (e.g. CC expires, they're unable to notify, account gets deleted.)

[ryanSrich]

I imagine DO has some contingency plan to prevent both your server and the backup being down at the same time.

[batuhanicoz]

Well, most backups are for unseeable events. It's your choice to trust DO's contingency plans but I for one would like to put my eggs in multiple baskets, depends of the value of said eggs of course. I wouldn't set-up off-site backups for a personal website for example.

[funkyy]

Unless bug in their system, hack attack or human error deletes all droplets from your account. And yes, I have heard of stories like that from other hosting companies where a human error caused the account to be deleted and data removed.

[j_jochem]

DO does that too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11036554

[schwede]

That's nice in theory, but it's better to not to have all your eggs in one basket.