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by meritt 4351 days ago
Why is mining in particular disallowed? Aren't you allocating a set amount of CPU to a paying customer?
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bryanlarsen 4351 days ago
Just a guess: mining produces less than $5 per month of bitcoins, so it's fairly strong evidence of a fraudulent credit card or hacked account.
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meritt 4351 days ago
Ah, if it's indeed related to fraud that's a fine reason generally.

I'm worried about a company restricting usage to resources which you have been allocated, as I thought we were well past the problems of shared hosts with the rise of virtual machines / linux containers.

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IgorPartola 4351 days ago
> Aren't you allocating a set amount of CPU to a paying customer?

I doubt they are. While DO boxes aren't bad, in terms of the "bad neighbor effect", I think they very much are oversold. Also, the virtualization tech is a continuum between complete and proper isolation of resources and time slicing of the CPU cycles on the one end, and Linux container style resource sharing on the other. Basically, the more isolated your VM is, the slower it will run. I don't believe DO is using any type of really strong isolation. Because of this, if you start mining BTC on your droplet, you will suck the CPU cycles from all the neighbors.

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