Digital Ocean is becoming a nightmare to handle for Developers

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[MMANJUNATH]

Isn't Error written at last line saying enable third party cookies.

[chadwittman]

I'm sure you tried it but open the developer tools and disabled disable functionality on the button and then trying to run the function

[SriHarshaChilakapati]

There is something even weird going on in my end. I faced this too, around January where my existing card has simply stopped working (new RBI rules required re-instating mandates). I simply have to remove the card, and re-add it to get the mandate re-instated. However, DO didn't let me to remove my card as it is the only one in there. I have only one card dedicated for international payments and don't want to enable international payments on my other cards.

So I wrote to their support team and they asked me to switch to Paypal. So I went on to creating an account at Paypal, added my card in there, and came back to DO. Poof, the Paypal option itself has vanished from the UI. After getting to their support team again, they said Paypal can't be used to make recurring payments. So to allow for my card to be removed, I had to choose one time payment option, pay for an extra month in advance so it shows up as credit and then I was able to remove it and re-add the card.

Two months later, something weird happened again. My bank (Axis) sent me two mails in succession, a minute apart. First one said my transaction was declined. Second mail (the latest one) said my account was debited. And DO did receive the amount. A retry from DOs side is being made every time and only then my card is getting charged.

I raised it to Axis, asking why the first time it is failed, and they said there was issue in the integration in DO side and they were not giving proper response to the PG. The second time they were. I took this back to DO, and they said even weird. They said "My card does not support 3DS" which is total BS!

I'm still on DO for now, because my droplet is just used for learning purposes, and my only website is client-only and is being hosted using GitHub pages. So I'm taking things easy and am waiting to see how long this actually goes.

[Samsonkwakunkrumah]

Faced similar issue moved to google cloud and on google cloud couldn't add billing to my account. I tried a lot of different cards but still didn't work

[bytive]

Same issue is happening with heroku, i have to move all of my servers and apps to AWS due to payment issues I think it's due to recent rbi guidelines

[aryankumar]

just faced this issue a while ago, though of getting started with droplets on digital ocean but my $5 payment kept failing repeatedly whereas aws had no issues

[rajdeep-ray]

I have been trying to creating an account since Jan 2022, i keep facing the same payment issue everytime
I tried all the available options, nothing works

[yashsakhare]

Please, help me. I'm getting an option saying "Additional info required" and I raised a ticket regarding this but no response came it's been a week. Payment from my credit card was deducted and not even reversed in my card account till now. Is there any solution for this?

[nithinbhandari]

Hi,
What do you think about digital ocean app platform ?

[dhruvil]

The same issue with Google Play Developer account fee, not able to get my Developer account, maybe if they resolve issues and support our payment system like UPI, that move will be so good .

[creativegugu]

first time enter kar ne ke liye 407 rs mang rah he can it return to me or not

[vishalchavda]

Its common issue with most of the SaaS or PaaS companies were they hardly have option for any Indian debit cards or Indian payment gateways.

[fahrican]

I had a similar problem with them, I wanted to create a team on DO to be able to work on another project with a friend, separately from my private project. The set up of the team account did not work, the support couldn’t help either.

[developersnepal]

Still I get a lot of ads on Facebook and YouTube

[tvssaini]

No sure about Digital Ocean but Heroku also has stopped accepting Indian cards due change in RBI guidelines on recurring payments.

[adarshnbidari]

I haved faced this issue with so many of hosting providers 😞

[Village]

yes this is true and DO is nightmare. I am quitting DO.

[eddieteah]

the instances are not booting up or allowing ssh

[sweekruthkm]

Audio and video sync is offf by 0.5sec .

[passionatebeast]

I have faced the similar problem. Use PayPal then use debit card/ credit card without signing in for your paypal account. Then add any email when asked to. It will finally work. It was a nightmare for me a month ago.