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by riffic 1611 days ago
You didn't have a disaster recovery plan in place to spin up new critical production environments in the event of an outage impacting external network accessibility? This is on you as an Ops team, not really something to blame DigitalOcean for.

AWS will expect you to do the same thing but it'll be much harder just because it's AWS.
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boole1854 1611 days ago
We did have a disaster recovery plan in place, and we implemented it.

It is my opinion that killing public access to a paying customer's server without talking to them first, and not providing any remedy for 60+ hours, is definitely something that DO support deserves blame for.

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riffic 1611 days ago
from the other reply it sounds like you made up your disaster recovery scenario on the fly.

DigitalOcean (and a lot of IaaS providers like them) expect you to create new servers on demand because the underlying hosts aren't 100% reliable. It could have been a RAID failure or a bad PDU feeding a rack or a number of other scenarios that would have taken your droplet offline, not just an abuse ticket.

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