[retlehs]

This happened to a friend who runs a DO server on July 22nd. The server had been running for several weeks when it was suddenly taken down out of nowhere for over 4 hours to "verify" the account. There wasn't any warning and my friend immediately provided what they had requested.

Their response? They shut down the server because of "unusual traffic" coming from the server which wasn't even being used yet.. but there was "outbound traffic about 977.38 Mbps at its peak at around 2013-07-22 14:50:00UTC"

They need to fully verify accounts before letting anyone create a server. You shouldn't just take down a server out of nowhere, for several hours, after it's been running for weeks.

[reycharles]

> "unusual traffic" coming from the server which wasn't even being used yet..

Does this not sound suspicious to you? Maybe the server was compromised. "Unused" servers usually don't generate 970 Mbps traffic randomly.

[regularfry]

It's just not practical to fully verify accounts before letting them create a server. It is practical to tell customers why they are being black-holed and give them a chance to fix it when it happens.

[sdogruyol]

Sad to hear that there's other people who shared the same situation as me.