I have happily used DO for small things, like hosting a Ghost blog, or running an Algo VPN, but I am a little surprised to see people doing bigger infrastructure with them - not that they deserve to lose everything for making that choice, but it seems like it would have been clearly riskier than AWS/GC/Azure?
I'm surprised that people put significantly more faith into GCP, AWS, Azure etc... similar things have happened in lots of scenarios. Not to mention when registrars have taken down sites.
This is a shame, and imho it sucks a lot. One of my biggest points of paranoia are with backups and scripting a return of a site on another provider should the worst happen.
Getting ready to launch something barely more than a hobby and was planning on DO because the hosted Postgres and a small K8s cluster is significantly less for what's there than the alternatives. Frankly, I don't want to go from ~$100/month to over $200 for another provider for something that likely won't lead anywhere.
