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DigitalOcean bought two companies - Cloud backup Snapshooter in January this year and Cloud Control panel Cloudways in August last year. And then raised prices for both services. Also, removed Vultr and Linode as hosting options from Cloudways.

To kick freelancers, they shut down their write for DO program. They also bought CSS-Tricks in March 2022 and closed its writing program as well. Both these programs used to offer freelancers $300-600 easy per tutorial.

And if that's not enough, they fired a lot of staff citing not enough profits (which was false) during 2022-2023. They also shut down their community Tutorials program which used to be the best in business - because everyone on that team has been fired.

Everyone is taking inspiration from Musk on how to be the most hated CEO. DO's CEO took the post in 2019 so it all figures.
 
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