Hi @asuarezStarfish,

If you try

nano /etc/hosts

or

vi /etc/hosts

what does it say, what is the error that it shows?

Additionally, try and see it’s permissions:

ls -lah /etc/hosts

Are you sure, it’s the /etc/hosts file that is showing as read-only? Try another file as well and see if the same occurs on it as well.

Additionally, make sure you have enough free space and inodes on your droplet :

df -h
df -i

Regards,
KFSys