I spent a lot of time getting referral credits on DigitalOcean. I was saving the credits for a long time and just a couple of months ago I started using droplets. And now they are going to expire.

I feel cheated. I never asked to get stuff for free, and I didn't. I got them a few paid customers and even recommended the service for my employer who host quite a few things there.

Am I being immature? I feel like they got what they needed from me. I'll be moving my stuff if this really happens. Not by choice but because after taxes and monetary conversion I would be paying about 4 times that if I host in my country. I choosed DO because if I start getting more traffic I would be able to trust that my servers would work. Hosting in my country is really bad (no infrastructure). So yes I wasn't trying to abuse the credits and move away. It was a business decision. A badly one.