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• AdminMoisey Uretsky (Head of Product, Digital Ocean) commented  ·  May 22, 2013 8:54 a.m.  ·  Delete

  I think the refcode or affiliate id is something that is common to most websites but open to hearing more feedback on it.

  Thanks

• charles commented  ·  May 21, 2013 9:37 p.m.  ·  Delete

  I would prefer that it doesn't say "refcode" as a URL parameter. Make me feel like I'm cheating them of something so awesome that I should be just sharing for "free"..if that makes any sense. :\

• AdminMoisey Uretsky (Head of Product, Digital Ocean) commented  ·  May 17, 2013 4:15 p.m.  ·  Delete

  We are launching the referral program in beta and wanted to announce it here first.

  https://www.digitalocean.com/user_referrals

  If all goes well we will be officially announcing it next wednesday.

  Thanks!

• AdminMoisey Uretsky (Head of Product, Digital Ocean) commented  ·  May 16, 2013 3:16 p.m.  ·  Delete

  If you are having a problem with CJ commissions please email mitch@ directly and he'll take care of it.

  Thanks

• Anonymous commented  ·  May 16, 2013 1:21 a.m.  ·  Delete

  Before you start your useless referral program, issue the affiliate payments for the CJ affiliates. You have already owed me $149 affiliate commissions

• AdminMoisey Uretsky (Head of Product, Digital Ocean) commented  ·  May 10, 2013 10:24 a.m.  ·  Delete

  We are pushing the new CP to production today if all goes well and officially announcing it next week after we've worked out a few bugs which I'm sure will pop-up over the weekend.

  Then we will be officially announcing the Referral program next week baring any unforeseen circumstances! =]

• Morthawt commented  ·  May 7, 2013 11:07 p.m.  ·  Delete

  I have referred 2 people so far :( I wish this was already implemented.

• Michael Wales commented  ·  May 6, 2013 1:01 p.m.  ·  Delete

  @Sebastian: If you're moving people off of GoDaddy and onto a DigitalOcean VPS they are purchasing of their own you are providing a disservice to both your customer and yourself! Since they are coming from GoDaddy they are not in need of much more than just basic hosting services. You are missing out on a recurring revenue stream that is slapping you in the face!

  I would offer those customers my very own hosting services, at $5/mo and place them all on a VPS together within their own virtual host.

• daniel commented  ·  April 12, 2013 10:28 a.m.  ·  Delete

  Any updates ?

• AdminMoisey Uretsky (Head of Product, Digital Ocean) commented  ·  April 5, 2013 8:59 a.m.  ·  Delete

  It will be credits based. =]

• SKRG commented  ·  April 5, 2013 7:03 a.m.  ·  Delete

  I feel the best (incentive) option for the Referral Program is "Credit Based". This definitely brings a sort of genuine attention both from the Current and Prospective Customers. And you always have options to refine the approach.

• James Lee commented  ·  March 27, 2013 6:52 p.m.  ·  Delete

  Please release!!!

• AdminMoisey Uretsky (Head of Product, Digital Ocean) commented  ·  March 22, 2013 9:44 a.m.  ·  Delete

  There are only a couple of statuses with UserVoice and we use them as follows:

  No Status / Open = Waiting for more votes or more discussions from customers

  UnderReview = Interesting, but not yet approved

  Planned = Approved and we will implement at some point

  Started = Code development has begun

  Completed = Done! yay

  In the case of the Referral program is pretty much finished but it will be launched with the new control panel which is in the works - its about 60% finished

• Florian Strankowski commented  ·  March 22, 2013 5:22 a.m.  ·  Delete

  Ok, "started" means its in development and hasnt launched. Weired naming ..

• Anonymous commented  ·  March 19, 2013 6:06 p.m.  ·  Delete

  Waiting for this too.
  Go go Digitalocean!

• AdminMoisey Uretsky (Head of Product, Digital Ocean) commented  ·  March 18, 2013 1:00 p.m.  ·  Delete

  It hasn't been launched yet publicly but will soon =]

• Florian Strankowski commented  ·  March 18, 2013 12:58 p.m.  ·  Delete

  Can anyone tell me howto use the referral program?

• Florian Strankowski commented  ·  March 7, 2013 2:12 p.m.  ·  Delete

  Nice work!

• Kirill Borodin commented  ·  March 7, 2013 1:35 p.m.  ·  Delete

  Great news that referral program is started!

• Sebastian commented  ·  March 7, 2013 12:55 p.m.  ·  Delete

  @Kerem , a lot of referal programs are bad. So yes, by association, this program might be looked down upon. However, it's better to have a referral to a very good service, rather than the one willing to pay the most. For example: Rackspace. They have a good referral program, but their services are 4x the price of DigitalOcean. It'll let the people that refer for money to refer to a better service. It's too bad that the current customer of GoDaddy I'm moving won't get to use the referral program (paying $10/mo for shared hosting and 10x the page load time of DO's cheapest server). But I'm not too broken up about it; it would just be nice to get a bonus for it. Hopefully the great service will override the connotations.