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Notice that the author doesn't address the issue of whether they actually were violating the TOS and/or AUP, or what the alleged violations actually were. My interpretation is that the author likely was legitimately violating the TOS, because otherwise he would have mentioned how dumb the allegations are.

If the author was breaking the AUP, I don't feel very sorry for him. If someone's doing something that legitimately violates acceptable use, they probably should be shut down without prior notification.

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Hey thanks for the comment. To let you know the account has 2 droplets which serves 2 mobile apps and does crawling 20-30 sites hourly. That's it actually and also the Dropbox script that i mention.

$20 says you're ignoring someone's robots.txt.

As far as I'm aware you're never actually required to follow it? It's just good manners.

Surely, you would have figured out which part of the TOS were you violating (if you were). It would be nice if you could relay that in the post or in the comments.

I run 100 droplets on DO and fetch 7MM feeds a day and have never had an issue with DO, either limiting me or turning off my machines. In fact, I've had the opposite experience: fast support, fast spin-up times, and an overall great service.

I realize you sound angry because you were asked to verify your account, but this reads vindictive and makes me think that the same behavior that caused their abuse department to flag your account is what's responsible for this attack blog post.

This comment provides zero insight into the TOS violation. Those details do not matter whatsoever, what matters is what you are doing.

Unless you provide that information this post comes across as a rant.

You mention a script to backup the database. Do you think that's what caused the account to be flagged as violating the TOS? Or is it the case that you don't know why it has happened, and just want help, and to let people know?

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