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Digital Ocean giving $50 credits on Black Friday to new customers

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Re: Digital Ocean giving $50 credits on Black Friday to new customers

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Post by xuki »

talles wrote: post #4

What about who is already a customer?

I got this from support

Hello

Thanks for writing in to claim this promo code!

For existing users we've decided to extend the offer in such a way;

a) we charge your credit card $25, if the charge is successful, we match that with a $25 credit, for a total of $50.

b) you make a deposit of $25 on your PayPal payments page

If you chose option (a) please respond to this ticket with: "I authorize you to charge my card on file $25 for the black friday promo!" If the charge is successful we will credit you the additional $25 and respond to you to confirm.

If you chose option (b) simply make your PayPal deposit and then let us know in this ticket, we will review and credit you the $25 and send you a confirmation.

If you have any other questions about this please let us know.

Regards DigitalOcean Support

Re: Digital Ocean giving $50 credits on Black Friday to new customers

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Post by Artemis2 »

codegeek wrote: post #8

EDIT: I did not scroll all the way down. The promo code input field is at the very bottom of the billing page. So disregard this post of mine please. To confirm, I got the $50 credit successfully. The bit.ly link resolves to this https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=4d7fb2079a96 There is no way to apply a discount code while creating a new account. Looks like you need to open a support ticket to apply discount codes…

When your account is created, go under billing and apply the code at the bottom of the page.

Re: Digital Ocean giving $50 credits on Black Friday to new customers

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Post by unsquare »

codegeek wrote: post #8

EDIT: I did not scroll all the way down. The promo code input field is at the very bottom of the billing page. So disregard this post of mine please. To confirm, I got the $50 credit successfully. The bit.ly link resolves to this https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=4d7fb2079a96 There is no way to apply a discount code while creating a new account. Looks like you need to open a support ticket to apply discount codes…

Worked for me as a new customer.

1. Create Account

2. Click Billing

3. Bottom of the page Code : BLACK50

4. Paypal 5$ ( http://i.imgur.com/gHAaEZW.png )

5. Create Droplet - 5$/month

6. 11 months of VPS for 5$

http://i.imgur.com/0Zbad7u.png

Re: Digital Ocean giving $50 credits on Black Friday to new customers

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Post by coolnow »

GrahamsNumber wrote: post #10

If I want to host multiple websites, would I have to register multiple accounts with DO, or can I sign up for multiple plans with the same account?

You can make a number of different "droplets" (instances) through 1 account, provided it has enough funds. However, if you want to host a few small websites, you can do that on 1 droplet using Apache or Nginx to set a directory for each domain.

Re: Digital Ocean giving $50 credits on Black Friday to new customers

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Post by bwaine »

unsquare wrote: post #14
codegeek wrote: post #8

EDIT: I did not scroll all the way down. The promo code input field is at the very bottom of the billing page. So disregard this post of mine please. To confirm, I got the $50 credit successfully. The bit.ly link resolves to this https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=4d7fb2079a96 There is no way to apply a discount code while creating a new account. Looks like you need to open a support ticket to apply discount codes…

Worked for me as a new customer. 1. Create Account 2. Click Billing 3. Bottom of the page Code : BLACK50 4. Paypal 5$ ( http://i.imgur.com/gHAaEZW.png ) 5. Create Droplet - 5$/month 6. 11 months of VPS for 5$ http://i.imgur.com/0Zbad7u.png

I followed this and got credited.

In order to start a server you have to add payment details though. So step 5 is not optional.

Winner! \0/

Re: Digital Ocean giving $50 credits on Black Friday to new customers

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Post by Casseres »

unsquare wrote: post #14
codegeek wrote: post #8

EDIT: I did not scroll all the way down. The promo code input field is at the very bottom of the billing page. So disregard this post of mine please. To confirm, I got the $50 credit successfully. The bit.ly link resolves to this https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=4d7fb2079a96 There is no way to apply a discount code while creating a new account. Looks like you need to open a support ticket to apply discount codes…

Worked for me as a new customer. 1. Create Account 2. Click Billing 3. Bottom of the page Code : BLACK50 4. Paypal 5$ ( http://i.imgur.com/gHAaEZW.png ) 5. Create Droplet - 5$/month 6. 11 months of VPS for 5$ http://i.imgur.com/0Zbad7u.png

Did not work for me. My Billing history only has PayPal in it. I created a support ticket.

I'm sure they're busy today with all the new sign-ups, I'm curious how long it will take.

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