[j45]

A major difference about Digital Ocean (A long time user) why you may want to mindfully avoid them:

- DO intentionally does not let you easily download your disk images for backup or DR easily - which Linode and others do without issue to increase lock in. No need to reply with linux commands on how to do it. :)

- DO has a catastrophic flaw in their infrastructure where they will fail to charge a valid credit cards on file and proceed to delete all servers and backups automatically, and irrevocably.

They should not be trusted with anything in production that can't be mirrored to another cloud.

Appreciate some of the other links.