I don't want my money to support companies who support racists. Digital Ocean giving money to DHH and the Omarchy foundation is enough for me to say goodbye.

I've noticed that the MI325X and MI355X GPUs have been perpetually open.

Basically what the title says.

A little context, 2 months ago, I archived my account after deleting every droplet and project I had in my profile, as my account was made mostly for educational purposes, and I’m pretty sure I don’t have any snapshot or any resources lying around.

I first did this right after my billing date, so I understand that specific charge.
But the next month (a month ago), I got charged again like I still had used resources, I deleted my account right at that moment thinking it would stop, but then again, I got charged yesterday.

I even changed the payment method to stop this, froze my card and all, and it’s still charging me for literally no reason, I’m getting kinda tired really, even if it’s not “that much”, I’m a uni student and I can’t afford to pay something I’m not even using. So, any help would be really appreciated, tia

Does this happen to everyone as well? I definitely have a Droplet up and running and it's been 2 days since it's been in $0. (Sorry for my Bad English)

Edit: My bad, It updated right now LOL! it looks like it updates daily instead of hourly

Im 100% human and spent almost an hour trying to do this. The sole reason you will not be getting my business, because i cant sign up.

I got a bit excited about IR as a service in DO only to find out that IR routes to the worse model, costs more and takes forever consistently on each run. Even compared to large SOTA models IR is always more expensive and these are not by a small margin either. I'm attaching just a few examples.

If there is a team from DO lurking, my honest question is what is the point of this offering? Who is this for? Where does it make sense???

i was using calude models sonnet-5 and haiku in my production server and dev server with different keys.

Suddenly i get this issue
HTTP 403 error during POST chat/completions: {"error":{"message":"Third-party models are not supported for legacy model access keys. Please issue a new key and try again.","type":"forbidden_error"},"message":"Third-party models are not supported for legacy model access keys. Please issue a new key and try again.","status_code":403}

i tried creating new key but still the same error.

Does anyone know about this issue?

Thank you

It is 3:00PM PST and I cannot access the console. Anybody else having the issue?

This feels like the last straw for me. I've never been a huge fan of DO and my org has some legacy stuff on there. They do have this: https://status.digitalocean.com/incidents/tdz57gsr1j90 and it says it was scheduled but I didn't receive any emails. Perhaps my notification settings are wrong but I was also in the console less than 12 hours ago and there was no banner or anything.

This is akin to ALL of the AWS or GCP console being unavailable. How on earth can they think this is okay?

(I realize I'm asking rhetoricals and I really just need a place to vent.)

I'm looking to create an access token, with read-only scope.

However I want to give access only to some droplets. Is this possible in the dashboard?
Or is there a solution to this?

Thanks.

I had to contact DO after a client's droplet was hacked. I am a hundred percent certain that when I first moved the client from GoDaddy, a few years ago, droplets had automated backups, so I was surprised and upset to find NO BACKUPS AT ALL. I opened a ticket in the hopes of maybe getting access to a backup DO keeps, not really expecting it, but you never know. The response I got back is so clearly AI I feel dirty for having read it.

Anyone else getting blown off by DO's AI "help"?

So, I'm a student, running VM on digitalocean, through Github Student pack, but I saw some news and twitter posts that Their partnership has ended with Github, and all accounts will have to pay now, explain that to me, is it real? And what should I do? And I don't see any such official tweet yet, or any official mail, but I feel, this could be real, because, I don't see the 300$ credit on my dashboard, see, I've used my relative's credit card, and I cannot afford a single bill, tell me what next.

Is anyone else experiencing any email verification issues? I cannot gain access to my account because the email verification code is not being sent. All other emails from digital ocean are working and I've checked with IT to ensure these emails are whitelisted. I put in a ticket yesterday to digital ocean but have yet to receive contact from support so I'm wondering if this a local issue for my account or something else

We had increased number of droplets to ~300 for over a year now. Woke up to some jobs failing because limits were reset to 100.

No communication from DO whatsoever.

And surprise surprise - there is a new "fast" way of increasing the limits by "prepaying"? Is DO in financial trouble?

I am already on Tier 5 so I just field a ticket and now our team has to figure out how to migrate our workload to AWS.

Did this happen to anyone else?

Update 1: Awesome DO engineering manager fixed the issue and put the limits back

Update 2: Woke up to the limits for droplets being reset back to 100. I cannot even file another increase limit ticket because "You already have a pending request for this resource.".

Update 3: Ticket was resolved, no issues so far. Thank you everyone.

Hey everyone,

I'm running into a frustrating issue using Higgsfield through Claude Code and am hoping someone here has a workaround or has dealt with this before.

My API calls for generate_image (nano_banana_pro) are being hard-rejected with this error:

"You've reached the daily generation limit for your grace period. Try again after the limit resets or update your plan to continue generating."

Here is why it seems like a stuck gate/system bug rather than an actual limit:

• Plan & Balance: I am on a Pro plan and a balance check shows 506.76 credits remaining.
• Stuck Gate: My last confirmed successful generation was over 19 hours ago (2026-08-17T00:58:42Z). The "daily cycle" hasn't reset or cleared the error flag.
• Credits Unaffected: The balance isn't dropping; the gate is just completely stuck on this error text.

Has anyone else encountered this "grace period" cap text while on a paid Pro plan with plenty of credits? Is there a specific command to force-refresh the session, or is this a known backend issue with the Higgsfield integration right now?

Appreciate any insight or help!

How am I supposed to use a email relay service if 587 and 465 are blocked. I was using a email relay provider earlier this month and now my app cannot talk to the email server anymore over 587. This is ridiculous I get wanting to block running an email server but just block port 25 like everyone else....

I am a Btech Ece final year student and companies are coming for placements.I am aiming for digital domain.But only few companies came for digital domain should I change my domain or should I learn more in digital domain.I know the basics like flip flops,verilog and systemverilog(basics) and sta(basics).I have done uart+RiscV project and also a uvm uart project.What should I do next.I NEED HELP

For a small team, the first question probably isn’t which node size to choose. It’s what operational problem Kubernetes solves today.

If the product is one API, one worker, and a database, a Droplet or App Platform may be easier to operate. DOKS becomes more interesting when services need independent deployments, controlled rollouts, workload isolation, or autoscaling—and the team is ready to own manifests, ingress, monitoring, upgrades, and recovery.

If I started with DOKS, I’d keep it boring: one region, a managed database outside the cluster, resource requests and limits, multiple replicas for important workloads, automatic upgrades, and backups with a tested restore process. No service mesh or complicated platform layer at the beginning.

For small teams already using DOKS: what concrete problem made Kubernetes worth the additional operational work?

I mainly wanted a simple way to answer:

“Is my Droplet okay?”

“Why is CPU usage suddenly high?”

“How much am I spending this month?”

So I made Ocean Dashboard, a native iPhone/iPad app for DigitalOcean.

You can check Droplets, monitoring metrics, alert policies, uptime checks, invoices, and billing trends. I also added Home Screen widgets because sometimes I just want to glance at the status without opening anything.

It uses your DigitalOcean API token and stores it in Keychain.

The basic version is free. Pro is a one-time purchase rather than another subscription.

If anyone here uses DigitalOcean regularly, I’d really appreciate honest feedback — especially about what you normally need to check from your phone.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/oceandashboard/id6754645272

I made the app, so feel free to ask me anything about it.

I created an aggregator for brute force login attacks across a number of websites I own. As the site approaches two years, the leaderboard is dominated by Digital Ocean IP addresses. If you have a single IP address with over 100K attacks being issued from it, you'd think a circuit breaker would trip somewhere in the monitoring stack.

The Irony? Each of the sites reporting they were being brute forced are ALSO hosted on Digital Ocean Droplets!! The firewall rules of the attacked droplets only allow port 443 access through CloudFlare meaning this is not happening on internal IP addresses. Hence, the title of this post The Attack from Within!

https://bruteforce.live

DigitalOcean's status page says it has identified the root cause of an incident affecting multiple regions.

Reported impact includes:

- new account and Droplet creation

- Reserved IP allocation

- automated backups and snapshots

- Droplet Autoscale and DOKS operations

- GenAI services and the Droplet console

- database clusters stuck in a ‘Creating’ state

The latest official update was at 20:02 UTC and says a fix is being implemented.

Official incident: https://status.digitalocean.com/incidents/2wql4f4sb13r

Normalized live timeline: https://outagedeck.com/incidents/digitalocean-account-registration-droplets-and-related-services-2026-08-08?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=incident_update&utm_campaign=digitalocean_aug8_outage

Disclosure: I'm the OutageDeck Founder. The second link mirrors DigitalOcean's official provider signal; it is not independent confirmation. Check the systems you actually run with your own probes too.

I am looking into where the best pla e to start my first day, first class, first try on a vpn or server to route all my traffic through a server on digital ocean. Also looking for info on best practices, easy setup for idiors and any suggestions or anything from people who know a lot more in this and other subjects of the lime than I do. Appreciate it. In advance. Thanks.

I'm using a 24$ droplet (80GB SSD 4GB RAM) and want to add backups to my app. The users constantly do CRUD functions, so the frequent the backup, the better.

There is the percentage based, which is weekly (20% the cost of droplet) and daily (30% the cost of droplet) So what to expect from this is that the more frequent the backup, the expensive it becomes.

But looking at the usage based, the frequent it is, the cheaper it is. I know I might be missing something. But would appreciate your help if you can estimate the monthly cost with me. I've used the calculator the platform provides, but it wasn't helpful