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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Generate or renew letsencrypt certbot certificate for load balanced nginx server on Digital Ocean
Does anybody know how to do it? Whether it is possible at all.
I followed this Digital Ocean tutorial which works but lacks the information how to apply this in a real world scenario with more than a single domain and multiple applications.
I know…

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Slow TTFB in a single WordPress site in a Nginx environment on DigitalOcean (20$)
On an all default Ubuntu 16.04 Nginx environment hosted on a 20$ DigitalOcean droplet I have only one WordPress site with a small amount of data: About 10 webpages, 10 images (around 100kb each), and 6 common plugins (all in default…

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nginx + codeigniter configuration not working on CentOS 7?
I am new on nginx and try to find the issue on StackOverflow but not found the exact one on forums.
After successful installation of nginx, MySQL and php-fpm I test the php.info that was working fine.
I am moving the CodeIgniter project to the nginx…

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Domain Records: Should they be added with the registrar, hosting provider, or at app level?
I have several domains registered with GoDaddy.
I used CloudFlare to protect against DDOS.
My apps are hosted on DigitalOcean.
I use VestaCP to manage some of my older apps.
Each of these four services have got the option for setting A,…

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Servfail from a dns server in Romania
The website that I launched along my new app has been reported down from romania, but it works fine from my end. I tried to access it from a public dns server from there (5.254.96.195), but nslookup returns a SERVFAIL.
The domain is beacon.sh.
Here…

Vivere Discere
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Can't access site through domain:port but works via ip address
I've got a nodejs based api server running on port 3000. I've created an A record for the server's ipaddress and am trying to access the api on demo.mydomain.com:3000/api/v1.
This does not seem to be working currently. Accessing via th ip address…

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"Can't authenticate you" when trying to run a DigitalOcean API command
I tried to run this command for rebuilding my droplet:
curl -X POST "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/droplets/MY_DROPLET_ID/actions" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer MY_API_TOKEN" \
-d…

Arcticooling
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Ubuntu 16.04 - Login not working in external SSH Clients
I've got a DigitalOcean droplet which is running on Ubuntu 16.04 which I am trying to access via PuTTY (the SSH client).
Whenever I connect to the droplet, I am prompted with the user login as expected, however after putting in the password for a…

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What do I scale up on a virtual server to take load off the CPU while uploading big files?
I have a small photography portfolio website running on Ubuntu. It's a Digital Ocean droplet with the following parameters:
512RAM memory
1 vCPU
20GB SSD disk
1TB transfer
This setup is sufficient for my needs when it comes to handling user…

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How to setup DigitalOcean DNS link to AWS CloudFront Distribution
I have a DNS setup with DigitalOcean for the domain
ghazanfarmir.me
What I want to do?
I would like a sub domain i.e. static.ghazanfarmir.me to be linked to the CloudFront Distribution, which then is linked to the S3 bucket containing all my…

Ghazanfar Mir
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Docker-machine mess up docker on host
After creating a Ubuntu 16.04 Droplet in Digital Ocean I've tried to connect it with docker-machine from my local machine but the server's docker won't start. I actually attempted in two ways: first with docker installed on the server and the second…

Rinaldi Segecin
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Load Balanced Laravel Application Configuration on Forge
I want to add a load balancer to my forge on digital ocean.
The configuration I would like it
Load Balancer (nginx)
Web Servers @ 2-4
DB Server
I am wondering what configuration these instances need to be.
I have the web servers @ the smallest…

whoacowboy
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NS records Configuration of CentOS Web Panel on Digital Ocean
Its clear from the question what I want to know but i do want to explain the entire situation first.
My Goal: I want to set up multi domain hosting panel on my server. Mostly it will serve my own existing clients.
As of now i've many shared hosting…

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Can't Close Port 21
I have this strange issue where I can't close port 21. I'm using Digital Ocean running Debian Stretch 9. I run nmap against my domain and it shows port 21 is open.
For reference the domain is: https://fadverts.co.uk
I have a firewall setup to only…

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nginx is redirecting all requests to https but not sure how
I set up a small Digital Ocean droplet a while ago to host my side-project, and while doing it made sure all http:// requests redirect to https:// (using Lets Encrypt certificates). I'm using nginx as the web server. However, I now need to make some…

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