Questions tagged [digital-ocean]

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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Mounted device taking up space on Ubuntu

I have an Ubuntu based Droplet on DigitalOcean which has 25GB of Storage. I am using it to run Backups from 2 different Machines. Backup 1 is going to /home/server1/ (should have a total of 25GB of disk available) Backup 2 is goint to…
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Sub domain with digitalocean + Amazon Route + Hostgator

I have two domains, www.domain1.com and www.domain2.net. www.domain1.com is hosted by digitalocean www.domain2.net is hosted by hostgator shared plan. (website hosting) The zone file of www.domain1.com is managed by Amazon Route5 The zone file of…
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Remote GUI Access to Server

My company is using DigitalOcean as our provider for servers and I was wondering if there is a way to access our servers through a graphical user interface versus using the standard terminal SSH access or using Forklift, Filezilla, etc. In other…
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Restrict access to Website/IP to specific OpenVPN client

I have a digitalocean droplet running Ubuntu 18.04.2 and nginx, and an API built with the Django Rest Framework on it. The specs of the project I'm working on require a VPN to be set up, so I've set up OpenVPN on the droplet. I've also generated a…
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Cannot add a domain to existing drupal 7 site

Sorry in advance if this is a dumb question, I can't seem to figure out how to add a domain name to a D7 site, (currently using an IP). The website is hosted on digitalocean, the new domain is from namescheap, and the site is Drupal v 7.41. (The end…
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Unable to access resume device (/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01) after CentOS custom image import DigitalOcean

I'm trying to import an existing CentOS VM from a VMware environment to run on Digitalocean vis their custom images option. I'm able to successfully run the VMDK in both VMware Workstation and VirtualBox. I've tried using the VMDK itself, and…
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Trailing word in domain instead of using a subdomain

currently I have my main website running in a droplet. My domain https://example.com has an A record pointing to the ip of the droplet and in the droplet I'm using nginx-proxy with the VIRTUAL_HOST variable of the domain. Now, I would like to access…
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Digital Ocean & WordPress ftp write to wp-content directory?

I am experiencing challenges with a new WordPress installation on a Digital Ocean droplet. The Ubuntu server is running with Apache, PHP, MySQL and WorkPress. I then had to install an FTP daemon and so installed vsftpd. It is currently working…
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Ansible Digital Ocean APIv2 multidroplet deployment conceptual misunderstanding

I am having some conceptual trouble getting Ansible to work with the Digital Ocean APIv2 to deploy multiple droplets. Normally I would define a list of hosts in the Ansible hosts file and that's how Ansible would iterate through each host to do the…
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Serving images is too slow in certain ISP

I'm serving Images as part of my website for a long time now, but recently images became too slow on a certain ISP! I'm hosting on DigitalOcean with a load balancer (with http2 rule) in front of multiple app server droplets using Nginx on Ubuntu, &…
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How to send a request to a server that is on the same VPN network

I have setup an algo server on Digital Ocean (running Ubuntu), have sshed into it, and wrote a small http server that accepts requests and returns "hello world". I have successfully connected my laptop (macos) to the VPN. However when I call the…
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Issues connecting to server - server timeouts

Launched a droplet yesterday and configured my local host file to point my domain at the IP. Could connect fine and even installed a lets encrypt certificate by temporarily migrating the A record via cloudflare. This morning the service suddenly…
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Setting up a global PTR record for entire server

Digital Ocean droplet running CentOS 7 with Plesk Panel installed. Trying to improve the email deliverability and overall state of the mail server. Want to set up a PTR record and apply this to the DNS template so that it can be applied to all…
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Deploying MongoDB in kubernetes does not create pods/services on DigitalOcean Kubernetes

I'm following this https://github.com/mongodb/mongodb-enterprise-kubernetes and https://docs.opsmanager.mongodb.com/current/tutorial/install-k8s-operator/ to deploy mongodb inside a Kubernetes cluster on DigitalOcean. So far everything worked…
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How to setup website across multiple web servers (with load balancer)?

I am trying to use two web servers to run my website (as opposed to the one I use now). I can easily create another LEMP stack on my hosting provider (Digital Ocean) and setup a load balancer to direct traffic to both servers via round-robin, but I…
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