What is the deposit required to upgrade to DigitalOcean?

Question

DigitalOcean

Greetings.
I have a pretty busy project.
Which will absorb 32-64GB of the frame easily.
I decided to take a small instance on DO, set it up and upgrade it to 64GB / 20 CPUs 640GB SSD Disk 9TB Transfer.
When I try to resize I get:

This size is currently restricted please send an additional payment to unlock.

Q: How much more $$$ do I have to deposit to unlock? I didn’t find any information in the fake, Google is also silent.

Answer 1

Hello,
Since you only have PayPal in your billing profile, we like you to maintain a deposit in your account equal to the monthly running cost of the droplets you have. So to have 1 64 GB server, we would want you to have a $640 deposit.
Preventing abuse is a top priority at DigitalOcean, therefore to increase your server limit, we would also like to get some more information about you and your use for our servers. Providing some proof of the personal information will go a long way in lifting the server limit now and in the future.
Please let us know the following:
- Your Name
- Location
- Phone Number
- The reason you are in need of the larger servers, such as what their purpose will be
- Also, please provide as many of the following as you can to help us verify your identity:
1. Your public Twitter handle
2. Your blog
3. Your company or personal website
4. Your public Facebook profile
Please note, while this information request may seem unorthodox, we find that procuring some basic information about our customers to verify accounts is preferable to detailed billing and payment verification, as billing information can be falsified.
NOTE: None of the information we receive will be stored or used for any other purpose than initial account verification and abuse prevention. However, inaccurate responses will lead to account termination under our Terms of Service - https://digitalocean.com/tos
Thank you.

Answer 2

Hmm, of course I'm sorry, but 640$ vs 109€ , I would seriously think about whether such a cloud is needed. Isn't it better to take two or three dedicated servers and file a HA cluster?

Answer 3

Write to support, they will charge you as much as you need.