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Definitely not illegal in any way. As a bonus, not even a violation of the DO Terms of Service.
But there are a few legal-gotchas I’ll throw out there:
Pretty exciting stuff. Maybe we’ll be reading your DO success story someday soon?
Those of us who actually use the DO infrastructure or interact with the community and staff already know the grass is green here. If you have clients who are already paying you to engineer their sites though, then I have to wager that they are paying you because you’re good at what you do. Not because of the cloud hosting company you use.
Best of luck.
It mostly depends on your country’s law - you definitely need to pay taxes on money you earn this way almost everywhere in the world.
As long as you provide maintenance services and aren’t reselling raw virtual machines, DO (and your clients) should be fine with that. Remember that it’ll sometimes pay off to have a couple sites on one server, or split a bigger application/client’s site to many machines (load balancer, web servers, database backend).