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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Verify authenticity of SSH host on Digital Ocean droplet (FreeBSD)
When first connecting via SSH with keys to a newly minted Digital Ocean droplet VM running FreeBSD (per this tutorial), we get a message about “The authenticity of host blah-blah can’t be established”. I understand this means my computer has no…

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Why do my sub domains point to other sub domains when I disable a site?
I have a personal server and I use many sub-domains on it.
Each sub domain has its own unique SSL cert setup with LetsEncrypt.
Each sub domain has its own vhost file under /etc/apache/sites-available/
Each sub domain has its own A record and NS…

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Why is NTP out of sync on servers that are hosted on Digital Ocean since the daylight saving time?
Since the daylight saving time the Sensu monitor indicates that the NTP of multiple servers that run on Digital Ocean (DO) are out of sync (12.345404ms-98.338222ms):
CheckNTP WARNING: NTP offset by 34.073039ms
Discussion
Perhaps the NTP…

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DigitalOcean Network Firewall allowing SSH connections on ports other than only 22
I have a droplet on DigitalOcean with IPv4 and IPv6 enabled. The droplet is behind a digital ocean network firewall with the following rules:
Inbound:
SSH TCP 22 All IPv4, All IPv6
HTTP TCP 80 All IPv4, All IPv6
HTTP TCP 443 All IPv4, All…

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SSH Connection Closed after changing sources.list
working on a Ubuntu 19.04 Digital Ocean server. After updating sources.list to focal, so I could update repositories and install certbot, I found my self locked out of the server with the message Connection refused.
Managed to enter through Digital…

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Webpacker can't find static assets
I created a Mastodon instance with DigitalOcean's preconfigured droplet which deploys version 5.3.5 of Mastodon on Ubuntu 20.04. I ran the setup wizard, then I immediately upgraded it to v4 of Mastodon with the official instructions.
After the…

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Digital Ocean MysQL with high load average but no queries
My website is down because it cannot communicate with my MySQL database.
My database is inside the Digital Ocean server. My CPU, Load Average and memory is in the highest values right now:
Despite all that, since my website is down, I am not doing…

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How to make Jenkins agents port available with an Ingress controller on Kubernetes?
I'm trying to setup Jenkins in a Digital Ocean Kubernetes cluster. I'm using a NGINX ingress controller as I want to access my server from a subdomain (jenkins.example.com). Everything is working fine so far, I have my UI on said domain secured with…

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Using certbot DNS authorization with multiple API accounts?
I'm using EFF certbot ACME client to generate a single TLS certificates on my webserver that is hosting multiple domains using Subject Alternative Names (SAN). Up until now all of the domains where hosted in a specific Digital Ocean team, and I have…

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High memory usage on digital ocean droplet by mysql 8
I have a laravel application which I've installed on a 1GB standard droplet running ubuntu 20.4, nginx, MySQL 8 and php 7.4
The application isn't even live yet and I notice it's already using over 60% memory - 68%
Below is a snap shot of the current…

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Why the download speed becomes slow than before in cloud server (Digital Ocean droplet with Cloudflare CDN)?
A cloud server (Digital Ocean droplet with Cloudflare CDN) runs a Wordpress website that hosts a software download for its visitors. One day, users report that their download only runs with 30kb/s, where before it ran easily with >5mb/s. A first…

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Digital Ocean server SSH login fault
What I have done
created a new digital ocean droplet and
Created SSH key based on this guide and during the creation of the droplet I have copied it in
I have run the following codes from here
ssh root@your_server_ip
adduser sammy
usermod -aG…

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DigitalOcean Droplet and Managed Database with Load Balancer - DDOS Protection
I'll first start off by saying I'm no sysadmin or by any means knowledgable on servers, I'm just a developer tasked with a job of setting up the infrastructure for a SaaS application I'm working on, so forgive me for not entirely understanding…

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Cannot get Sendmail to work on Ubuntu 18.04.3 (LTS) x64 on DigitalOcean Droplet
I have taken these steps (gathered from numerous posts in this forum and others) to install and configure SendMail on my DigitalOcean droplet, running Ubuntu 18.04.3 (LTS) x64, but I have been unable to get it to work.
1. installed sendmail:
sudo…

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Can I limit data transfer within timeframe per IP address?
I'm hosting some relatively large files on my website, and it struck me that it would be trivial for someone to create a script that keeps downloading them over and over again, chewing through my data transfer and costing me money. Your typical home…

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