Couldn't agree more. Coincidentally, early this morning, I received a notification email from a droplet i own. It(my security agent process) had noticed repeat

Couldn't agree more. Coincidentally, early this morning, I received a notification email from a droplet i own. It(my security agent process) had noticed repeated attempts to login and that it had blocked the offending IP address. When i traced the IP address, it was from Digital Ocean's network! I am getting unnerved with all of this. Looks like DO is now a popular target for hackers. I would think the vast majority of droplets (despite their owners trying to keep things secure to the best of their knowledge) don't have much of a chance against a sustained attack by a capable and determined hacker. So yes, I agree that keeping as near to real-time backup as possible seems to be the only takeaway from all of this (assuming that we would want to continue with such a discount hosting provider).