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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Can not restart Nginx, "Job for nginx.service failed because the control process exited with error code."

I have a digitalocean droplet with Ubuntu 16.04 running on it. I am serving mostly static sites from it with Nginx, but it suddenly stopped working. (As you might understand from this intro, I am quite the beginner at all of this.) I've tried to…
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Dovecot cant connect to imaps 993

I am trying to set up a mail server in digitalocean VPS. The problem is that i cant telnet to 993 although firewall is inactive and dovecot is listening. Please tell me where i do wrong. I followed this postfix, dovecot, mysql, spamassasin…
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DigitalOcean's object storage, Spaces, is randomly slow on retrieving small files

We switched from a custom block storage solution to DigitalOcean's object storage and I'm kind of disappointed in the speed. Is there anyway we could retrieve objects asynchronously? Also some objects that are around 50 KB can take from 57 ms to 3…
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Hundreds of failed login attempts: Is that normal?

Whenever I SSH into my DigitalOcean droplet as root (where possible I use a user instead), I regularly see there is hundreds, sometimes of thousands failed login attempts from the past few days. Is this normal? What is it likely to be cause by? Is…
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Resize zfs pool

We are using Digital Oceans block storage feature on our FreeBSD system. When we add a new block storage we get: da0 at vtscsi0 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 1 da0: Fixed Direct Access SPC-3 SCSI device da0: 300.000MB/s transfers da0:…
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Permission denied (publickey) - mac

I can't log into my droplet. This is another post I made about the issue that did not solve my problem, but explains some of what I have tried.…
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Digital Ocean: "Failed to open serialization file readonly file system" Issue #Ubuntu

After applying an apt update + upgrade to my Ubuntu VM at Digital Ocean I started seeing the message in the title. The Wisdom of Internet say's that this problem typically occur when the UUID in /etc/fstab does not match the one reported by blkid.…
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PHP-FPM using 100% CPU on a server that has 16 threads

I have a server that has 32 GB of RAM and 16 threads. This server has an API in PHP that receives many requests from other external APIs, I made a configuration in PHP-FPM to support all these requests without slowing down the site, this worked well…
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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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How to I make a domain resolve to different IP's when resolved from internal network and external network?

So I looked through BIND and Dnsmasq and unable to figure this out. I have a few of servers on DigitalOcean, and they are on the same datacenter. I want to be able to use internal IPs to get better intra network pings and (obviously, free private…
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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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What username for Login to Console on a Digital Ocean Droplet running FreeBSD 12

As an alternative to making an ssh connection to your Droplet on DigitalOcean, they offer a "Console" which is a VNC connection, akin to plugging a monitor and keyboard into your virtual server. When opening such a Console window, I am prompted for…
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Why is nginx redirecting to another site when setting up SSL on my new site?

I have a droplet on DigitalOcean, running Ubuntu 16.04, which I started sharing with a friend of mine. He already has a webpage running on the droplet with nginx and today I started setting my Wordpress site on it too. I successfully got my site…
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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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Do I have to restart my server after changing settings.py?

I have a django app hosted on digitalocean with gunicorn and nginx. I have just changed something in settings.py. I have taken my SECRET_KEY and now I stored it in etc/secret_key.txt settings.py with open('/etc/secret_key.txt') as f: SECRET_KEY…
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