That really stinks, but this should be a warning to you that in the future, you should have some kind of redundancy plan so data does not get lost. Even if Amazon decided to terminate all of my app instances right now, I would just need to rebuild them. No data is actually lost, and furthermore backups are made frequently so that if a server decides to explode one day, we're still covered. DigitalOcean droplets are really not meant to be holding your database and application server...you shouldn't have experienced "data loss" by losing a droplet because your database should not have been hosted on a droplet.
Which is the irony of the entire post because the tldr was: "our DO instance was lost, fortunately we keep multiple backups of the data so we were able to restore without any data loss". It seems more like a passive aggressive note against Digital Ocean.
Why not? How is a droplet different than any other server, including your own hardware? All of them will fail eventually, the important bit is having a sound replication/backup strategy as you said yourself.
