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Well, time to find a new VPS/DNS provider, I guess…
Seems like a miscalculation on their end. You'd think they'd check around before throwing $3M away.
>Seems like a miscalculation on their end.

Or it's a miscalculation on your end.

>You'd think they'd check around before throwing $3M away.

Maybe they did?

They were my first VPS. I've kept it running continuously the whole time; I have its IPv4 address memorized. Didn't think I'd ever want to give it up but here we are. Lesson learned, no more emotional attachment to infrastructure
Hope you're not using Cloudflare, 1Password, Dropbox, Meta, Stripe, Anthropic, OpenAI and OpenRouter.
Thanks for checking! I don't use products from any of these companies, with two exceptions: I use Stripe as a consumer when I need to buy something on a site which uses them for their payment processing, and I use Cloudflare as a consumer when a site I visit uses them; in general it seems completely impossible to avoid CF and still use the internet.

I certainly don't use any of them for side projects or other business purposes, and now I won't be using DigitalOcean for those purposes either.