I am a current DigitalOcean client and I was recommending DO to my friends and professional contacts.
New policy of requiring scanned documents is unacceptable in the environment of pervasive nation-state level monitoring and destruction of privacy. If this is a permanent change, I won't recommend DO any longer.
The solution is extremely simple: accept bitcoins for payments and/or fair use verification for free tiers. Also there is a market for forged document scans, just read krebsonsecurity.
Same here. DigitalOcean can't verify if a document is real (vs photoshopped) so the requirement might as well be sending a letter head. I'm glad I got access to all levels of VMs early by asking nice (for legitimate adhoc large data processing that required lots of RAM).
New policy of requiring scanned documents is unacceptable in the environment of pervasive nation-state level monitoring and destruction of privacy. If this is a permanent change, I won't recommend DO any longer.
The solution is extremely simple: accept bitcoins for payments and/or fair use verification for free tiers. Also there is a market for forged document scans, just read krebsonsecurity.