Are you using a newly issued card to pay for the servers? (or a prepaid card). Reddit has several threads like this, and a common issue is using a newly issued card to pay, which DigitalOcean might classify it as a fraudulent card.
damn, that’s rough. The no warning / no explanation part is the worst.
stuff like this is why i’ve started leaning more toward things i actually control, self-hosting when possible, or at least keeping setups easy to move around. getting locked into one provider can bite you out of nowhere.
doesn’t help your situation now, but it definitely makes future hits like this less painful. Hope you didn’t lose anything important.
Are you using a newly issued card to pay for the servers? (or a prepaid card). Reddit has several threads like this, and a common issue is using a newly issued card to pay, which DigitalOcean might classify it as a fraudulent card.
damn, that’s rough. The no warning / no explanation part is the worst.
stuff like this is why i’ve started leaning more toward things i actually control, self-hosting when possible, or at least keeping setups easy to move around. getting locked into one provider can bite you out of nowhere.
doesn’t help your situation now, but it definitely makes future hits like this less painful. Hope you didn’t lose anything important.
> run a basic setup script on it
What was the script?
OS update, Remove unnecessary services, Harden SSH, Set up firewall, Install fail2ban,
that's all.
so? go to a different provider, or even better, self host.
use something else
This is what you call enshitification. DO used to be my goto many years ago.
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