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Your DigitalOcean credit is expiring soon and FREE 9 of 2GB DO Droplets.
Just got an informative email about my old Digital Ocean credit is going to expire soon, they are very kind to give me till May 1st to use about $196 USD credit which should expire on March 6th.
I don't have any plan to use them so if anyone want a FREE 2GB (Cost $20 per month on DO, they can only let me create maximum 2GB droplet, grandfathered account so you will get unmetered bw) for a month, please let me know, I got about 9 of them.
Edit: I can only create ONE droplet and it already TAKEN, I still got $176 left till May 1st but I can't do anything than just let them expire...
Please use it legally, and please read the damn DO TOS, they can change it anytime and fk you up anytime too, even with things happened before they got it in their TOS.
You can PM me your location, OS to redeem the free 2GB CLOUD VPS.
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Just be aware that you're liable for what any of these people do, as the account is in your name...
here comes the abusers and spammers.
Yes, I know that. I see that people even create module for WHMCS to resell DO droplet?
I think you might be underestimating the kind of individuals who are going to jump at the chance to grab one free month of a VPS that they are not legally liable for. But... it's your account.
I'll take one.
@Jarland how much mail do you figure the 2GB instances could push per hour?
Haha, good news, they are now limit my account with ONE droplet, and limit me to create max 2GB droplet.
I got $176 USD left, and they are only allow me to use all of them till May 1st.
It's a hard math for me
Well played DO.
Kill it with fire!
Holy crap, you did work on that referral link.
@jarland Do all DO credits expire at a certain time? I still got some remaining, not sure if I need to start "wasting" them now.
It's been more than a year since I redeemed my credits. The credits are still there and it's already March 30, 2016. Am I safe now?
You should have received an email today in such a case. We were not ready to take the action on the back end to remove the credits at the stated time, so everyone received an unannounced extension. If you added credit before March 06, 2015 it's expiration date would have been stated as March 06, 2016, but the actual removal will take place on May 01.
Edit: I've been corrected, not all were sent today.
So, am I safe? Or just for another few days?
You should expect May 01 expiration given the criteria. You should receive an email about it soon.
oh awesome, no more love with DO..
DO also has $160/month derplets, if it's expiring anyway then you might as well use that.
Lots of love! Just no more promo credits sitting in unused accounts for years :P
Moral of the story: We want you to try the service and if you like it, use it. Promos aren't meant to be collectible items.
There are certain circumstances in which a new or unused account might not be able to create droplets of that size right away.
Not if you don't have a deposit history + card linked. He's capped to only create 2GB instances.
Uggh. You mean I have to pay for it? Worst. I have one account that was loaded with cash + promo codes to $30. It's currently at $27 and change. I might have to keep an instance for longer than 24 hours.
I still have some credit left in my account, don't think will be able to use it up before the deadline... sigh...
Only running one $5 instant there as revered proxy, can't really use it fast enough.
Now I am concerning my Linode credit as well..
Sadly, you didn't say that on your github promotional page... even the new one: https://www.digitalocean.com/github-students/?utm_medium=partnerships&utm_source=github&utm_campaign=studentdevpack
We kind of hoped everyone would have plenty of time to work that out. We sent out an email notification of this on March 06, 2015. That said, I understand it's easy to skip over those from time to time, or even worse if it lands in a spam folder. Feel free always to talk to me if you have any concerns. I never start out with the mindset of "I won't do this for a customer" but consider every situation for its own individual context and value.
Opinion on best US location? Least incidents, best network, etc? I'm considering SFO since it's closest, but I have a feeling that SFO is like 99% HE. NYC is fine. Toronto routes are about the same as NYC for me.
Also: what's the deal on bandwidth metering? Does the unmetered fair share "don't be a dick" policy still apply?
Upstream quality should be roughly equal in each location. Personally, I'm most fond of NYC2 and NYC3 for the US. Likely because the Texas/California rivalry seems to extend to internet latency as well.
That's still the case. No charges for overages, no metering for the amount used. I would ask that if usage needs to be high and sustained, that it be spread out across multiple droplets to keep things sane
Anyone have William's download test link again?
I wouldn't put any sustained bandwidth usage on a $5/mo droplet - much less of a headache/less risky to just find an unmetered provider. Just curious if I use like 1001GB on the base plan if I'll get the boot or bumped to the next plan.
I've always liked DO, just haven't used it much in the last 18 months since I've picked up more dedis where I can spin up my own instances.
> **Edit: I can only create ONE droplet and it already TAKEN, I still got $176 left till May 1st but I can't do anything than just let them expire...
You can message support and ask them to increase the limit. They replied really quickly for me.
Does it apply for github credits too?
That might be a little more in-depth conversation in this case, given that we've all read this thread. I have some concerns about it.
It does.
We did, actually:
It's not reasonable to state all relevant policies up front in header text above each promotion. The policy has its own page. Anyone using the credit should not run into this particular policy. The problem arises when that credit is treated as a trading card to be placed on the shelf, something of collector's value to be traded in at a later date. Maybe that's what some people want to do, and I get that, but the goal was to get people to try our service.
I use my DO box as intended, as a dev box. When I need it, I launch it, when I'm done, I destroy it. The credits last forever for my use and now I regret for depositing before I used up my free credits.
That's certainly a valid use but I wouldn't go as far as to say intended. We want you to develop great things, and then we want you to grow them. I've run across this perception a few times, that DO is the company you build on but not the one you deploy on. That's not really what we were trying to convey when marketing to developers. We want you to develop, deploy, grow, and thrive
We have customers of all sizes running high end, production applications on our infrastructure. We're working hard to improve functionality that aligns with production deployments (floating IP was a big step).
Most provider will put a small text if they have limits on credit, for example: VULTR got $50 USD credit valid for
6 months60 days? They state the time limit because with $50 USD credit you can use on TEN months of their service on lowest package, same at DO, but you didn't state it.