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I am unfamiliar with Digital Ocean credits. What were you using them for, or going to use them for?

Have you been spending them or just amassing them?

(Not that either would justify summarily wiping them out. Just trying to understand.)

I was using them to run my own server. I used to pay them in cash, but I earned so many credits by referring people to them that I haven't paid them in years. I've also often thought about starting my own SaaS, and those credits would have helped keep my costs down.

I have been continuously using the credits for years to host my blog (300+ technical posts) and podcast (80+ episodes).

In previous years certain articles were more popular than they are today so a majority of my credits were gained over a year ago.

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