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You're looking at the one false positive instead the potentially thousands of true positives. Those true positives are people using free DO credits to cryptomine on DO. And probably 99.99% of the time the system works as intended. Dealing with bad actors and abusers is not pleasant or easy.

This sort of 0.01% case is exactly what developers and sysadmins deal with on a regular basis -- some crazy scenario that lead to a bug you've never experienced before. The correct and only response is to fix the bug (whether it be software or process), offer whatever compensation to the injured parties, and move on.



How much do you think this one instance will hurt DO’s bottom line?

I’m prepared to say the lost income potential is massive.

Who would ever use them for production if they can arbitrarily decide that your servers need to be powered down?




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