Ask HN: Need to Unlock a DigitalOcean Account?

1 points by kshahkshah ↗ HN
Hello, I'm getting desperate here. Our DO account was suspended due to non-payment. The bills were going to an old email address for which we no longer control the domain.

As a result we're locked out, we can't update the billing info. We've opened support tickets hours ago but we've received no replies. Is there any escalation path we can take?

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How many "hours ago"?

You posted this before 0900 Eastern, and last I checked ... DO's main suspport hours are Eastern, are they not?

How big is your account? $50/mo? $5000? $500,000?

Per my dashboard ...

>Our Premium Support Plan is built for scaling businesses

>For $1,000/month, get dedicated account managers you can rely on for their expertise and a response to urgent inquiries within 30 minutes.

I'm a lowly hobbyist user at the moment, and rarely expect to get a contact-back before 24 hours (I think the longest I ever personally went was 120 hours because of a holiday weekend)

You might consider pinging them on Twitter (https://twitter.com/digitalocean) or checking the [unofficial] forum on Reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/digital_ocean)

They just got back and turned back on the account temporarily, but I've no way of updating billing w/o them changing the owner email... what a nightmare! Dumb on our part