from the other reply it sounds like you made up your disaster recovery scenario on the fly.
DigitalOcean (and a lot of IaaS providers like them) expect you to create new servers on demand because the underlying hosts aren't 100% reliable. It could have been a RAID failure or a bad PDU feeding a rack or a number of other scenarios that would have taken your droplet offline, not just an abuse ticket.
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from the other reply it sounds like you made up your disaster recovery scenario on the fly.
DigitalOcean (and a lot of IaaS providers like them) expect you to create new servers on demand because the underlying hosts aren't 100% reliable. It could have been a RAID failure or a bad PDU feeding a rack or a number of other scenarios that would have taken your droplet offline, not just an abuse ticket.