Digital Ocean (DO) is a hosting platform that offers the possibility to create Virtual Machines (VM). These VMs are called droplets in DO land.
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Can not restart Nginx, "Job for nginx.service failed because the control process exited with error code."
I have a digitalocean droplet with Ubuntu 16.04 running on it. I am serving mostly static sites from it with Nginx, but it suddenly stopped working.
(As you might understand from this intro, I am quite the beginner at all of this.)
I've tried to…

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Dovecot cant connect to imaps 993
I am trying to set up a mail server in digitalocean VPS.
The problem is that i cant telnet to 993 although firewall is inactive and dovecot is listening. Please tell me where i do wrong.
I followed this postfix, dovecot, mysql, spamassasin…

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DigitalOcean's object storage, Spaces, is randomly slow on retrieving small files
We switched from a custom block storage solution to DigitalOcean's object storage and I'm kind of disappointed in the speed.
Is there anyway we could retrieve objects asynchronously? Also some objects that are around 50 KB can take from 57 ms to 3…

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Hundreds of failed login attempts: Is that normal?
Whenever I SSH into my DigitalOcean droplet as root (where possible I use a user instead), I regularly see there is hundreds, sometimes of thousands failed login attempts from the past few days.
Is this normal?
What is it likely to be cause by?
Is…

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Resize zfs pool
We are using Digital Oceans block storage feature on our FreeBSD system.
When we add a new block storage we get:
da0 at vtscsi0 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 1
da0: Fixed Direct Access SPC-3 SCSI device
da0: 300.000MB/s transfers
da0:…

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Permission denied (publickey) - mac
I can't log into my droplet. This is another post I made about the issue that did not solve my problem, but explains some of what I have tried.…

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Digital Ocean: "Failed to open serialization file readonly file system" Issue #Ubuntu
After applying an apt update + upgrade to my Ubuntu VM at Digital Ocean I started seeing the message in the title.
The Wisdom of Internet say's that this problem typically occur when the UUID in /etc/fstab does not match the one reported by blkid.…

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How to I make a domain resolve to different IP's when resolved from internal network and external network?
So I looked through BIND and Dnsmasq and unable to figure this out.
I have a few of servers on DigitalOcean, and they are on the same datacenter. I want to be able to use internal IPs to get better intra network pings and (obviously, free private…

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What username for Login to Console on a Digital Ocean Droplet running FreeBSD 12
As an alternative to making an ssh connection to your Droplet on DigitalOcean, they offer a "Console" which is a VNC connection, akin to plugging a monitor and keyboard into your virtual server.
When opening such a Console window, I am prompted for…

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Why is nginx redirecting to another site when setting up SSL on my new site?
I have a droplet on DigitalOcean, running Ubuntu 16.04, which I started sharing with a friend of mine. He already has a webpage running on the droplet with nginx and today I started setting my Wordpress site on it too.
I successfully got my site…

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Do I have to restart my server after changing settings.py?
I have a django app hosted on digitalocean with gunicorn and nginx.
I have just changed something in settings.py.
I have taken my SECRET_KEY and now I stored it in etc/secret_key.txt
settings.py
with open('/etc/secret_key.txt') as f:
SECRET_KEY…

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Image files corrupted after deployment on nginx
I do not know why this happened. I first pushed my project to github and then git cloned it into my server(digital ocean). On my local machine i have uploaded over 350 images, but after deployment they all seem corrupt. If i remove the corrupt image…

dark
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Nginx Reverse Proxy Path on Parent Domain from Different Server
I currently have web servers for a web application hosted on AWS and I am planning on launching a blog for the web application, which I plan on hosting from a DigitalOcean server (Nginx) due to its ease of maintenance and direct integration with…

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LetsEncrypt unable to authorize
I have setup my server on digital ocean, and followed along with
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-secure-nginx-with-let-s-encrypt-on-ubuntu-16-04
When I tried to run the command: sudo certbot --nginx --debug-challenges -v -d…

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Kubernetes CrashLoopBackOff after pod create pulling image from Docker Hub
On a Digital Ocean Kubernetes Cluster I am trying to create a pod using a Docker image pulled from Docker Hub but it keeps failing with CrashLoopBackOff and restarting. The image is a Rails app in a docker container and is quite large. I suspect…

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