Yeah, I had that bug too (or another one that caused similar behavior). Great fun.

Edit: I realize my comments may sound a bit unfair. I don't want to come across as saying "they had a bug in their software, so they suck!" I realize stuff happens, and these are complex things. But I'm bothered by the fact that it has happened often enough that I'm actually nervous to upgrade my FreeBSD system, even though I have been using the OS for 20 years and did time as a professional sysadmin. I guess the flip side is that once it's working, FreeBSD is so stable and drama-free that my incentives for upgrading are very low unless there's a critical security issue.

I am an extremely casual FreeBSD user. I also happen to be an obsessive compulsive software updater conditioned to systems restarting and coming back after a few minutes. So this hanging thing had me completely baffled. It was also my first time ever looking at the Digital Ocean console.

It's nice that DigitalOcean gives you actual console access… AWS gives you screenshots and text dumps for serial, no write access :D