Pretty much the standard "the cloud is just someone else's computer" issue: if you don't have the ability to reproduce your work somewhere else and your provide

Pretty much the standard "the cloud is just someone else's computer" issue: if you don't have the ability to reproduce your work somewhere else and your provider decides to go away, you're going to have a Bad Time(TM). Also, for as cool as Digital Ocean is, their primary focus is on low-use, shared cloud resources. From my experience, they over subscribe CPU resources so "noisy neighbors" was a problem sometimes. They do not provide or work with people as if they have production services, and they don't seem to like people who really want to use their system. I would never use them for production unless the work was ephemeral.