My guess is that Digital Ocean is the first VPS you've ever used. I don't know of any provider that will wait 10 hours for you to respond while the server sends out 1Gbps traffic. If they let the server continue running, the bandwidth costs would probably be more than 100x your monthly subscription cost. The VPS providers that don't shutdown your server will usually just bill you the bandwidth costs and you won't notice your server got hacked until you see your $800 bandwidth bill.
Killing it first is the proper course of action here. I understand you're new, so there's always a first time. I just disagree that you have to make an inflammatory blog post about it.
Killing it first is the proper course of action here. I understand you're new, so there's always a first time. I just disagree that you have to make an inflammatory blog post about it.