Digitalocean Discount Code Application tutorial

Warm tip: The 100-dollar coupon must be exchanged within one year, otherwise it will be expired, after the exchange success, to the date of exchange, must be used within one year, otherwise the remaining direct clear zero. Digitalocean has 5$/m,10$/m,20$/m,40$/m,80$/m package, generally used last year is no problem.

Digitalocean is a new VPS in recent years, the performance of its server is relatively stable, relatively Linode, perhaps performance without its good, but the price is more reasonable, comprehensive speaking, Digitalocean cost-effective is very high, he is billed by the hour , 0.007 $/h, for example: you choose 5$/m's monthly package, full one months need 5 dollars, if you spend half a month, and then you built the host deleted, then you estimate this month only to deduct about 2.5 dollars, but, a new host price will be higher, each set up a host need 0.1 The United States dollar, in short, means that the host is operating on the deduction fee, does not run without cost, is more flexible.

Next, specifically how to apply for Digitalocean 100 dollar Discount Code:

1. Registered Digitalocean account (registration immediately to account 10 USD)

1.1 Landing Digitalocean Official website, in accordance with the requirements of the mailbox, password, and so on, here is the best true fill, the following will be used to activate.

1.2 After the submission, to the mailbox to activate, after the activation of the following interface, where we need to activate the account, can be activated by binding credit card (no need to recharge), or through PayPal to recharge the lowest 5$/m to activate, do not activate is not allowed to use the discount code.

2. Preferential Code Application process

2.1 has Digitalocean account, we also need a GitHub account, here is not to repeat the GitHub account application process.

2.2 We need one. edu's mailbox, because after GitHub account, you must set the GitHub's primary mailbox to. edu mailbox, otherwise it is not eligible to apply, if it is a student, the school will generally provide registration. edu-Mail Service, if it doesn't matter, like our school is not Have to provide this service, hey, or the school is too bad ah, like 211,985 schools generally should be no problem.

So what do we do? Reference http://blog.laptopmag.com/how-to-get-an-edu-email-address this article to register a (do not read, follow the steps to the line), but now registered is a. NET mailbox, which can also be used , because I use this mailbox as the main mailbox of GitHub, and finally apply for success. As shown in the following illustration:

2.3 To GitHub activity page binding own GitHub account, active Address: https://education.github.com/pack, click Get your pack, set simple information.

2.4 Generally speaking, after a while you can apply for success, presumably because it is not. edu mailbox, so the verification time is relatively long, I from the beginning to apply for the success of nearly one weeks, so be patient for a few days, to your. edu mailbox (or. NET mailbox) to see if you receive GitHub mail, The following figure indicates the success of the application:

2.5 After the successful application, go to the Https://education.github.com/pack page, click Get your pack, then you can see the student offers, the page down to the Digitalocean position as shown in the picture,

Click on "Your offer code" and copy your discount code into promo code,

Go to your account and see if it's 100 dollars more,

Detailed billing inquiries can be checked into bill, as follows:

In fact, the GitHub discount is not just digitalocean 100 dollars, there are other, such as a year free. Me domain Name service and so on, I don't specifically say, go to see for yourself.

Discount Code Exchange question:

If there is a problem in the exchange, resulting in the discount code can not be used, to digitalocean customer service to send a tickets, said your discount code cannot be exchanged, let them help you exchange, in the exchange they may want some relevant proof (such as: Student card, admission notice, etc.), To prove that you qualify for a student's offer, just send it to them. There is, because the above God's application of the. NET mailbox can not send pictures and other accessories, so in the communication with customer service, tell him that your school did not. edu Mailbox Registration service, want to use your common mailbox to send, generally will agree, Finally, if your English is very poor (like me), it is best to use Google or Baidu translation, as long as the translation to others can understand a general meaning on the line.