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How to get a response from support OR request account deletion?

Posted on November 18, 2025

I signed up to Digital Ocean on Friday 14/11/2025 hoping to make use of the $200 credits free offer and build some projects for learning purposes.

I set up MFA and I also linked my bank card. Immediately after, my account was blocked. Since then I have been trying to submit the form to raise a ticket while logged in - the only page I am allowed to see - with no success. I have also contacted them via contact@digitalocean.com, support@digitalocean.com and Twitter/X. I also submitted a request via the public form, which advised a ticket reference would be emailed to me shortly - which never arrived.

I have included my socials (GitHub, LinkedIn) which show that I work for a University, and certainly will match my MFA account and banking details. Not only have I had no response, since being locked I have received automated confirmation that my credits are ready to use.

I am understanding of the necessity to monitor accounts, but not receiving a response in this many days - included even confirmation of receipt of a ticket or query being submitted - is just something I do not understand.

I have come to access that Digital Ocean is not interested in me as a customer, but I also have no means to request deletion of my details as per GDPR.

Any guidance is welcome.



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Hey,

The best thing to do in such cases is to reach out to the DigitalOcean support team via the link here:

https://www.digitalocean.com/support/

I believe that there was an issue over the weekend but should be all sorted out now. If you have a ticket id , feel free to share it here as well.

Hey @9c82815fde9d4f819d0739239dcc24,

In our public community, we aim to answer open questions about anything SysAdmin, DigitalOcean and beyond. However, we make every attempt to keep personal information safe and so don’t ever access personal account information here. This means we can’t provide help with any account or billing-related issues.

Do you have a ticket number from when you contacted our support team so that I can get this followed up for you?

Hope that helps!

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