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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DigitalOcean DNS can new cname record conflict with existing wildcard cname record
I am having an existing wildcard CNAME record that goes like *.example.com. I wanted to add another CNAME record to map from an address like app.example.com to some.example.com. Will this create conflicts on the DNS records?

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Setup MEAN app on digital ocean using nginx
I am trying to setup a Nodejs + Angularjs application on digitalocean. I separated the frontend(angularjs) and backend(nodejs) into two nodejs servers each running on ports 3000 and 4000 respectively. I want the angularjs app to be served on…

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Copy server setup
We host a lot of sites on 3rd party hosts.
For each one of these sites, we also have corresponding staging sites - usually on another server by the same host provider.
I started using Digital Ocean for staging sites simply because they're quicker to…

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Is it possible to setup DNS point to 2 servers, one in Digitalocean another is in Linode?
Is it possible to setup DNS point to 2 servers, one in Digitalocean another is in Linode?
I hope the two servers compose a cluster.
Your comment welcome

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Configure apache ssl with load balancer (DigitalOcean)
I'm probably missing something really basic, but I've been trying for some time now to configure an apache server (which serves a wordpress site) for ssl with a DigitalOcean Load balancer.
The load balancer is supposed to hold the certificate and…

Kevin Chacón
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Redirecting traffic from a server that is down to a static site
I have a digital ocean server that uses cloudflare for DNS. If for some reason my DO server goes down I want to redirect the traffic to a DO static site app. My first thought is to use a Load balancer. Is this the right idea? I understand that a…

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making all S3 uploads to digitaloceans spaces default to being public
I'm using DigitalOcean Spaces to upload a bunch of files in different directories. In particular, I'm using WinSCP to do the upload via the S3 protocol.
The problem is that, per WinSCP, all the files are being uploaded with public access to them…

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How to create snapshot ISO-image from Ubuntu server?
I intend to run computationally intensive calculations on expensive cloud servers. Setting up the environment (starting Ubuntu server via cloud API, downloading and installing Python/models, downloading input file) takes 10-15 minutes, which causes…

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Tools to narrow down high resource usage on DigitalOcean droplet running WordPress
I run a digital downloads site with Easy Digital Downloads/WordPress on a DigitalOcean droplet. It has always been fast and snappy on the backend admin dashboard. Nothing new has been added in a year (besides routine updates). Recently though, some…

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Digital Ocean Space Cors with private files
I am unsure whether I am misunderstanding CORS or whether this is possible within a Digital Ocean Space.
Basically, I want to set a file to private on the DO Space. I only want a certain domain to be able to access this file, so I setup a CORS rule.…

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Mysql server won't start after changing bind-address
I have two dropplets at digitalocean, one is for http server and another is for database.
In mysql config /etc/mysql/mysql.conf.d/mysqld.cnf I have set bind-address to digitalocean private ip and everithing was working without the errors.
After…

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Python script keeps getting killed
I run a python script on VPS and I have problem that script keeps getting killed.
I had this problem already with 2GB RAM server config, then I upgraded to 4 GB and it seemed to fix the problem (at least for 2-3 days - but now happening again) but…

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Was my new VM hacked?
I just deployed a Digital Ocean droplet and I think it was hacked within 20 minutes of deploying. Basically, I built Nginx from source the only added extra's I installed (outside the dependencies) were mod_pagespeed from GitHub…

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Email server with DigitalOcean and Webmin Does not send to Yahoo, Hotmail
I been following tutorials on how to setup my own SMTP server for Email marketing using Digital ocean Droplets and Webmin
I came to a point where I have installed the Webmin using PUtty, set up DKIM and SPF, MX etc. respectively. But I used a Free…

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High CPU Usage on Digital Ocean Web Server
We have a Laravel website which is currently hosted on Digital Ocean (Nginx). The droplet is a 2 vCPUs, 2 GB Memory, 60 GB SSD, 3 TB transfer running PHP 7.4. We are seeing a steady increase in CPU usage from one day to the next.
We currently have…

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