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Ask HN: What to do with DigitalOcean credits?

by codecondo on 5/1/15, 3:15 PM with 5 comments

I'm sure that many here are affiliated with the referral program that DigitalOcean offers to its customers, you may also remember that during the inception of this program, DigitalOcean made monetary payouts for the earnings you had, but that changed roughly a year ago.

I'm just wondering whether anyone else is stuck with their credits and not quite sure what to do with them. For me, there are only so many websites that I can run at any given time, and I'm just wondering whether I should leave that money piling up, or do something with it.

  • by joshtronic on 5/1/15, 3:27 PM

    I ended up sticking with the monetary payments on my DO referral account but I also earn credits (they don't offer cash) from Linode.

    With Linode, I keep a small box there with my smaller sites and just let the credits pile up around it. I consider it a rainy day hosting fund, if anything I'm running blows up, I can scale up without worrying too much about the immediate economic impact.

    If you're feeling a bit more altruistic, perhaps you could find some open source projects that need documentation mirrored or a not-for-profit that you could donate a droplet to?

  • by mmrasheed on 5/4/15, 4:29 AM

    I thought, I had seen paypal payout option along with DO credit. Have you tried that?

    BTW, will you mind sharing your experience with DO affiliate? Do they somehow limit, restrict, block credits/money?

  • by tuyguntn on 5/2/15, 1:54 PM

    Can you share some of the credits or maybe host? email in profile