>Well... that more or less invalidates the sanctity of the terms. You'll find the plurality (if not majority) of ToS's out there include such a statement. >Wh

>Well... that more or less invalidates the sanctity of the terms. You'll find the plurality (if not majority) of ToS's out there include such a statement. >What is the justification for that? Simply being the target of malicious activity means that your account can be terminated? It's not as though one is responsible for malicious activity directed against them. They don't want to deal with the networking implications of a large scale DDoS. They're providing low priced VPS services, not high bandwidth, high load custom racks. Also, they "reserve the right" not the "always exercise the right". DO likely won't kick you for a small DoS/DDoS but sustained attacks take much more manpower to deal with than you're paying them for. >I see this a lot with software, but doesn't this mean that DigitalOcean has no actual obligation to provide the cloud or VPS services they advertise? No, it means you can't sue DO because your VPS went down and you lost 10K is sales because customers couldn't access your storefront. It's an indemnity clause. >Is this the usual sort of agreement for such a service? Yes, unless you're paying a good deal of money for something like a Colo with 1hour SLA or an AWS instance with a high SLA.