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Be thankful to god that no problem should ever arise in your journey with DO. Because when there is an issue, DO as bad as any other hosting in the market.

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  • alephmage June 10, 2017
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    Ok, I’m a little upset. So bare with me. I just left Linode to come here. Spent ALL day working on a server Droplet and at the end I install Postfix. Problem with VERY FIRST email sent out to test my postfix setup…the email was blocked by GOOGLE. Their error message says my (very new) ip address is on a spam blacklist?!?! I look and look and look for support button …find support ticket button....yea. Fill out ticket…receive my own ticket(boooo) with a link for me to respond TO MYSELF. OMG. The sun is coming up now. WHY is the ticket I am sending to DIGITAL OCEAN for support being sent to myself to answer? Am I understanding this set up wrong somehow? Is there another support area? Here is my ticket—-> https://cloud.digitalocean.com/support/tickets/1566868?i=0611fd

  • disappointedUser December 18, 2017
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    After a mistaken charge back, a new credit card was added and DO continued to bill the account. Regardless, the account was disabled and droplets removed after 2 days, robbing a non-profit used to benefit newly released felons of it’s web presence and data. An over-eagerness to delete data that costs you near nothing to maintain - not validating that emails were read and data backed up - all reasons to never host anything critical with DO.

  • wildneuro June 23, 2019
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    I’m having the same issues.
    Deployed the full stack of our apps via DO/k8s. One of the hosts stuck and not responding. 24 hours past – no responses.

    Went in, and found out that my other ticket (1-2 months ago) is still not even progressed.

    Looks like there is no support at all.

    Probably will advocate more people to move to GCP, had good feeling deploying there for the past 4 years. Also, it turns out a bit cheaper when comes to the scale.

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ryanpq August 22, 2016

We are more than willing to help you with whatever issue you may be encountering but you won’t get much accomplished on this community forum without providing any details of the issue. If you had a poor experience with our customer support team please share the ticket number so we can bring it to the attention of the Support management team for review.

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  • vuthanhbinh July 6, 2017

    Hi Ryanpq,

    Thank god that I found you.

    I am just wondering what I have done wrong when contacting DO support. My issue was so important to me but the ticket was deliberately closed when my questions were still pending and there was not any further communication from support. It was just quietly closed and closed even I resubmitted it. The ID of the ticket is 1606708

    Thank you for taking a look and your help.

    Jimmy

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canadol February 11, 2018

Support is not terrible. DigitalOcean has NO suppost at all.

My websites were down. Backups are only once a week, and backups didn’t work.
So, no response from DO several DAYS and NO help furher.
I was able to solve the issue with help of 3d party specialists.
Stupid billing and tax system.
Thinking about changing hosting provider.

Higly unreliable hosting service.

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roginvs May 8, 2018

Their “support” is full of idiots. I am asking one question, and they are responding to absolutely another. They absolutely did not read my responses and continues to write random answers.

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Bharat1987 August 22, 2016

Hi, the issue was related to network connectivity with DO data center. I appreciate the fact that DO has the most robust setup. Thus, the possibility of having any issue is almost none. However, whenever there is an issue, responses have not been very satisfactory for me. First response and follow-up responses are very slow.

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  • ryanpq August 22, 2016

    I’m sorry to hear that. I’ve touched base with our support team and while our privacy policy prohibits me from sharing any account specific details here I can say that:

    1.) our team is aware of connectivity issues between DO and one specific ISP that web believe is in your region.

    2.) Our team will request MTR/Ping results in these cases so we can provide data to the ISP or otherwise investigate further.

    3.) The ticket I was able to identify appears to be awaiting a response from you.

    In cases like these we reach out to our providers and when feasible we reach out to the affected ISP. Having real test results from users having the problem is vital since we cannot see things outside our network with the clarity that a user at that end can so your response is an important aspect and helping to get this resolved.

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Bharat1987 August 22, 2016

The issue appears to be resolved.

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Bharat1987 August 22, 2016

Thank you

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Bharat1987 August 26, 2016

Today the same problem occured again. From last three hours I am waiting for a replay. I have replied twice.

I cannot believe this is the quality of DO support.

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spadinha January 19, 2017

Support is terrible… my server is blocked for 4 hours without answer… And I cant get my data to create another droplet… I ask help but they dont care…

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Jake1221 February 18, 2017

Is it long enough 30 min of waiting in order to get at least a “Hello” from CS? Or should I wait more? : )

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kmax March 9, 2017

is the service at this company still this bad???? thinking of moving to DO… but the fact they have NO support OR sales phone number… and apparently don’t reply to email quickly either… no sure.

How is service here in 2017?

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  • singaporeson February 1, 2018

    they took my payment yesterday and still have not delivered anything that i paid for, 24 hours later. After reading all the issues people are having i wish i had gone with a different VPS service provider.

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  • akashicseer September 7, 2019

    I tried to sign up, I entered my credit card number now another screen demands I enter pictures of government issued identification, my phone number, some selfies etc. So instead I am entering google and finding a real host. Never in 10+ years of web development have I once had anyone require so much information before i was allowed to purchase $5 hosting. And to think I had though of using DO for years before this.

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kostaschrisma April 28, 2017

Agree Service is awful. Worst thing i ever had. My droplet is down for like 15 mins now and i have opened a ticket…no one answers???? wow just wow…SERVICE S-U-C-K-S i dont even know why i am paying anymore…

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asheesharora1 April 29, 2017

Agree there service is terrible… looks like time to say good bye to DO and switch to another reliable provider like Amazon.

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administrator2df14abbbf6d1 August 16, 2017

Your service and support team are very bad exp in my carrier. droplet has been out of networking. we try to solve many times created 10 tickets but did not receive any reply and solution. this is my production server.

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alelch2 September 18, 2017

Teeerrrriblleee support!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Awwwful!!! They claim that they can’t do anytihing since the droplet is a “black box” for them....

Since they tell you this..... it means if anything goes wrong, you are on your own!

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soomrojb October 27, 2017

Worst service I have ever seen,

My account got suspended due to late payment, I just cleared all of dues few days back and since then I have inquired multiple times about the status; one of their support guy named “Jason” (more like an Indian guy with a fake name and poor English) responded that my account is under surveillance at their trust and safety department, which of course doesn’t make any sense and the way he has responded was completely unprofessional and even the sentences don’t make any sense at all.

Very poor customer support.

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jpcponce October 30, 2017

Terrible support.
My droplet is down for 3 days,I have an open ticket but they take in average 12 hours to reply back. I understand we are not paying for support but 12 hours is VERY BAD. I am with them almost 5 years now i am thinking to move to amazon

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karunaammireddy November 1, 2017

I also agree that the customer support doesn’t seem to meet the required standards.
no phone support at all. opened a ticket few hours ago and no response till now.

looks like when an urgent response is required, cannot rely on digital ocean email support. not good to grow your company on an infrastructure provided by a company that doesn’t seem to respond promptly to tickets and doesn’t provide phone support.

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jcwtw November 2, 2017

My server has been down for TWO DAYS! Please help with Ticket #725971.

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jcwtw November 2, 2017

Moving to Alibaba’s $4.50/month service. Unbelievable lack of response at DO.

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leomp November 8, 2017

Terrible, a year ago, when we started to use DO, it used to work fine, but now, even spending 20x more, no ticket takes less than 12 hours, in all the last tickets we give up the help, in most cases we can not waiting for so much, detail is that we have opened 7 tickets in more than a year, they can not answer for the 1 single ticket per month (nor even enough).

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shahusman09 December 3, 2017

I am not happy with the support,my website is down since 1hour and they dont have any care i opened the ticket as well but no response up till now ,pathetic support.

I am seriously thinking to switch hosting to another hosting provider. Anyone who can suggest me good hosting provider,ill really appreciate.

shahusman09@gmail.com

Regards,
Usman

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Foksh September 10, 2018

The worst support ever in the hosting market!
I have been hosting websites and web applications for more than 10 years, and I have never been in a situation were the support did not reply to my emails!

They disabled networking on one of my droplets one week ago, and they do not reply to emails since then! I am sending them emails since one week and no one replied!
I’m so gonna find another serious hosting provider!

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Topgg July 1, 2019

I’m experincing the same issue !

Two weeks ago, I found all of our Server STMP port suspended and I found I got a 48 hours Account suspension notice,“Due to your account history ..........” no further explaination.

I’m a little be confused, if it’s not about Spammer/IP problem, why DO suspend my account ? After digging into this problem, I found these IP suspended for Spamhaus report, we
are domain registrar, the spamhause reported that one of our client is abusing the domain name for Spam activity and Our support team failed to suspend the account in time.
So Spamhause suggesting our hosting provider suspend of our servers.

Once I found that, I took action immediately suspending the domain name in problem, and replyed to Spamhaus, it tooks 3 days for one reply from DO about suspension !!!!!

Spamhaus requesting a removal request from DataCenter Like DO so the IPs can be removed.

Further more, till now , 4 domain name IP is still suspended.And I did get a reply form them from two week ago. Day afterwent by, and still no message.

Is it sounds insane, suspend all of our account and SMTP server suspend till now just because one of our client abusing the domain name? We took action in time and you keep ignoring our effort and cooperation.

Truely , I don’t feel the existing of cutomer support!!!! Yes, we only purchased 7 servers from you，I’m a tiny customers.

DO ’s product are so good, they are providing a simplied web UI , Simplied easy use products, and even simplied Support for every customer :D， everything is simplied

If you don’t want to be treated like me, just go find another provider. At least , 24 hours Live support must needed !

Truely The worst support ever in the hosting market!

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