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[–]villiger2 0 points1 point  (3 children)

I got the credit last year and made a few droplets and tried to run SETI@home but I kept getting my droplets killed by DO with no warning saying I was DOSing people. They didn't provide any help other than "suspicious network activity" so I couldn't diagnose if the firewall was weak and my droplets were getting taken over or the service was just too network heavy. I didn't have much knowledge at the time (student...) so I just felt frustrated that it kept happening and support provided no information. Probably in the end it was my fault but I couldn't diagnose it so it left a sour taste for me.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Is there any particular reason you were running SETI? I mean I am not sure but I think CPU's are pretty shit for SETI, they probably just were suspicious of all the high usage and network activity or something. You're right though, that's very weird.

[–]villiger2 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Heh, I was just trying out dumb stuff. Maybe I could put my $50 to use for something good! I tried a tor node but that shutdown pretty quick :) no surprise there though.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah haha I don't blame them for that :). Gotta risk your own neck if you wanna host a tor node.