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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Fedora 34 Docker Image failing to build due to Disk I/O error (Digital Ocean App Platform host)
I have a Dockerfile which is basically:
# syntax=docker/dockerfile:1
FROM fedora:34
RUN dnf --assumeyes install python3 python3-pip python3-gdal
Which runs fine locally on various host machines. However when Digital Ocean App Platform tries to…

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Digital Ocean WordPress Memory frequent Spike with less than 100 Traffic
Everything was running perfectly fine, but from last 4 days my site on root domain got high memory usage alerts.
I created a same clone site with same Nginx Configs on Subdomain the site is running flawless but when I redirect back to root domain…
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Are the hundreds of /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start processes killing my site proxy from port 80 to 3000
I'm new to server administration. Whenever I systemctl restart apache2 the /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start processes fill up immediately in the hundreds. It seems that after this happens my raw ipaddress (port 80) proxy to my web app (port 3000) doesn't…

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journalctl stops working randomly after boot on DigitalOcean droplet
I am building servers from a custom image I made using Packer on DigitalOcean, and I'm having a recurring issue where journalctl doesn't have any logs:
# journalctl
No journal files were found.
Sometimes I have this issue with images I build,…

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Server Requirements for a 2000 visitor Event
I'm hosting a site for a "virtual event" and I want to make I have enough resources on the server. Please can someone confirm the rough requirements for the below:
Up to 2000 visitors during a 2-day event – mostly watching an 'event' page which…

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Can we use Indian Server as CDN for German Server?
My client is using Hetzner Cloud Hosting. But his most of the users are from India. So in order to improve the speed we are planning to use $5 Digital Ocean droplet (Indian Data Center) as Proxy with Caching in front of Hetzner Cloud.
Hetzner Cloud…

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MySQL databases vanished on our VPS (DigitalOcean)
We have a project in development on a DigitalOcean droplet without having backups enabled since code is in git and I never ever dreamed of loosing database by not doing anything to it.
So after the vacations during Christmas time, my coworker tried…

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Digital Ocean Droplet spikes to 100% CPU usage without any traffic
I recently setup a new Droplet (most basic one) and running react app with very light express server with pm2 (server has been running 16h with 0% cpu usage and 90mb ram).
I started the server, no issues there cpu was around 3% and I was testing the…

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Remote host can be connected to via SSH but cannot connect to the Internet
I am trying to find out why a remote host with which I can connect via SSH cannot connect to the internet.
When I try to ping said server, it will answer back with 1 ping and every subsequent packets are not received.
$ ping 138.68.93.123
PING…

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Application service available through single domain using Nginx
I have a server on Digital Ocean, and I am using this to deploy multiple docker containers and using reverse proxies to host them on Nginx.
I have 2 domains linked to my server (Single Public IP). Let's name them domain1.com and domain2.com
Now I…

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WIth Nginx do I have to add a content-security-policy to every location block?
Environment: Nginx, Node.js, Digital Ocean Droplet
The docs for the add_header directive indicate that it can be used in an http, server or location context.
However when I add my content-security-policy to either the http or server context it isn't…

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Is it possible to backdate an Ubuntu restore to trick an expired password prompt
I use passwordless login with SSH to access my Ubuntu 18.04 DigitalOcean droplet, on which I've disabled root login, using a sudo-enabled account. I do not have a login password/sudo password. My password setting is ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL, so that…

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Error in Node.js / Ubuntu 20 server configuration: 111 Connection refused
I get these three lines of errors when I refresh my page:
2020/10/07 16:38:55 [error] 315270#315270: *7 connect() failed (111: Connection refused) while connecting to upstream, client: 66.249.66.221, server: akadjg.com, request: "GET /robots.txt…

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Delegate main domain and part of subdomains to different nameserver
Let's assume I have:
Registered myapp.tld domain with ns.some.tld nameserver set
DigitalOcean droplets:
foo.myapp.tld
bar.myapp.tld
Cloudflare zone for:
myapp.tld
es.myapp.tld
de.myapp.tld
other language-specific subdomains
I need…

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How should my Nginx 'default' file in sites-available be configured for a MERN app?
I'm deploying a MERN app and wondering how the 'default' configuration file in etc/nginx/sites-available should be setup for the server, client, and Mongo database to work?
I am using a Ubuntu machine on Digital Ocean. I have the server.js running…

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