It appears to be an issue with digitalocean. I've tried two other links to non-crypti related site all are unresolvable at the moment.

informer

rabbiter:

Too zai zi

Ni shi bai chi

Yes, i help they to fix it now.

Here is what I got with the free micro instance
AWS t2.micro 1:56:37

Both digital ocean 1GB and 512GB still syncing

Congrats to devs. Much much faster syncing. Love the block loading message and the forging admin. Both of my nodes are very stable so far.

The only funny thing is my digital ocean node is syncing but it stops for a few minutes at a time. My home node was done way before my DO node and it's a slower box. One thing I did notice on my DO droplet is that the log is filled with peer blocked messages. My home node is fine tho.

Good job devs! I like this new update.

Yeah, F5 and refresh your browser before posting!

informer

My node synced for ~2 hours with 1.6 but now all gone - no blocks, no balance.  
Seems like it is redownloading or reprocessing blockchain from the begining.  
Waiting 1.6b  

Btw it is tooo slooow

Blockchain loading: (183/16985 blocks)

How many hours client will start if blockchain grows to million blocks?