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nice to see a digital ocean site with some popularity not getting nuked or otherwise blacklisted.

Why would it get nuked or black listed ?

DO has sometimes been accused of overselling capacity and then terminating services when they are fully used. I have never actually heard a first-hand account of this, but I assume that is what the parent is talking about.

I'm not sure if this is what you're talking about, or if the scale just wasn't a problem, but anecdotally I've (accidentally) pegged a 5$/mo instance for at least a month without any issues.

EDIT: I do know that DO/Linode/(maybe vultr) have blackholed IPs during large scale DDOS attacks, simply because they don't have the infrastructure to mitigate it, and you affect their other customers.

Does that really happen?

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