Years ago, I used a cheap droplet on DO as an IRC bouncer to hide my home IP address. Someone came into a channel I was an op in and started spamming racial slurs, so I did what a normal op does and banned them.
They proceeded to DDoS my droplet.
Only a couple minutes later, DO responded by disconnecting my droplet from the Internet for 3 hours, supposedly to protect other customers. Thanks, DO, you let the DDoSer win. My droplet was handling the attack just fine, it just made my IRC connection a little laggy.
As a $5/month customer, I was just small potatoes, for sure. But I had ideas for products in the future, and I decided that I would not use DO for them, knowing that some skiddie could just take it offline for 3 hours by just packet flooding it for a couple minutes.
They proceeded to DDoS my droplet.
Only a couple minutes later, DO responded by disconnecting my droplet from the Internet for 3 hours, supposedly to protect other customers. Thanks, DO, you let the DDoSer win. My droplet was handling the attack just fine, it just made my IRC connection a little laggy.
As a $5/month customer, I was just small potatoes, for sure. But I had ideas for products in the future, and I decided that I would not use DO for them, knowing that some skiddie could just take it offline for 3 hours by just packet flooding it for a couple minutes.