Nothing but radio silence from DigitalOcean while 38k sites remain down

While this sounds frustrating, I wouldn't ever put anything that required high availability on DigitalOcean. DigitalOcean is great because they are cheap & simple to get stuff setup - not because they are robust and redundant.

If it's a parody site hopefully surge has the resources to sue NRA for fraudulent take down .

Not a DMCA takedown request apparently:<p>&quot;@Sarterus @xor according to @digitalocean we needed to remove b&#x2F;c of &quot;trademark in general&quot;. DMCA was not cited as the reason to remove.&quot; -- Brock Whitten (‏@sintaxi) at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;xor&#x2F;status&#x2F;748317104965750785" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;xor&#x2F;status&#x2F;748317104965750785</a>

This same thing happened back in December&#x2F;January, when a DMCA for &quot;trademark infringement&quot; was sent and DO took surge offline: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;surge-sh&#x2F;more-on-january-7th-downtime-the-dmca-and-due-process-c4472032856#.dmij8c5x9" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;surge-sh&#x2F;more-on-january-7th-downtime-the...</a>

Forwarded this via slack to a friend that works there though I am sure they are already working on this issue.

Isn&#x27;t the cloud awesome?