Digital Ocean they've updated their Terms of Service -> Might as well a trouble

[balanghai]

According to Digital Ocean they've updated their Terms of Service

 We have updated our Terms of Service

Created on 01/27/14 at 22:07


12. Termination and Access

12.1 DigitalOcean reserves the right, in our sole discretion, to terminate your access to all or any part of the Services at any time, with or without notice, effective immediately, including but not limited to as a result of your violation of any of these Terms of Service or any law, or if you misuse system resources, such as, by employing programs that consume excessive network capacity, CPU cycles, or disk IO. Any such termination may result in the forfeiture and destruction of information associated with your Account.

Isn't this a huge problem?

whole updated TOS

https://www.digitalocean.com/legal/terms/

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[Wipeout2097]

DigitalOcean in the context of coin mining, is a double-scam. First, if you are offered X resources for Y cost, you're entitled to use them at 100%. That "excessive" in the TOS is arbitrary bullshit.

Then the tutorials spammed in this forum are just a way to cash in from referrals, most often even disregarding if the suggested coin to mine is actually profitable! I joined and tested. I get $10 per signup that uses my referral and loads the account with $10 (?) or more.

You can use 100% cpu on Amazon EC2 24/7 at will, at moderate prices, pay-as-you go per hour. Request spot instances is often very cheap. Or you can trial Windows Azure and get some credit.

Let's kill this DO zero-sum referral garbage for mining.

[balanghai]

I totally agree. I am currently running couple of instances at DO for my projects, and it's running 24/7, I wanted a little bit of return for payment of the server so I don't have to spend much but looking at this, they are really into something.

[balanghai]

Complain to them about how they just got $37 million and shouldn't do that.

http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/06/digitalocean-raises-37-million-from-andreessen-horowitz/

You hit the nail and buried it. 

[Wipeout2097]

Complain to them about how they just got $37 million and shouldn't do that.

http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/06/digitalocean-raises-37-million-from-andreessen-horowitz/

Who gives a crap? I only care that newbie coin miners do not get scammed.