- 2 CPU cores Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz
- 48GB SSD storage
- 2GB RAM
- Max. 40Gbps inbound and 250Mbps outbound bandwidth
- IPv6 support
- Your choice of location and Linux 64-bit distribution
Just got this myself too and my first thought was it has to be a scam. Submitting photo ID online is rather unusual for hosting company to ask for. DO does appear to be less favorable now given the level of verification they need. I wonder if this applies to most DO users though.
[Sent to support]
Earlier today, I received a support ticket from DigitialOcean with the message below asking for government issued ID. This is an unusual request for hosting company. Can you confirm this?
--- ATTACHED MESSAGE BELOW ---
To help us verify your identity, please send us a scan of your government-issued photo ID or passport to verify@digitalocean.com with this ticket's ID in the subject, example: "Ticket #XXXXXX". Once you have sent that please let us know by replying to this ticket.
[Response from DO]
We ask for IDs for accounts that have been flagged during verification. We apologize if it appears abnormal but we take abuse very seriously
Alex
How do you deal with the abuse reports? I tried this on a Digital Ocean's droplet against port 80 and sure enough I got reported for abuse in less than 5 minutes after running the script at only 100k rate. It's only port 80!
According to [1] they got 58 abuse complaints for a scan of the entire internet on port 22. The scanner IP address they list is hosted by cari.net who will presumably overlook some abuse reports if you're on their $225-a-month high bandwidth plan.
First of all, we avoid well-know "darknet" monitors that generate a lot of abuse reports.
Second of all, we response personally to each abuse report and offer to include them in our "exclude" file so that we won't scan them ever again. Though, of course, I prefer they add us to a "whitelist" file: not opening their firewall, but adding us a file that ignore logging.
