It’s been over 2 hours and nothing yet… My site is extremely slow and timing out on every page but the home page.
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×That depends on time when you send ticket but usually it is fast.
I had A LOT of tickets with them and 1.5h is some average time (also I had some unimportant tickets). Sometimes it is 2 hours, yet sometimes is 20 minutes, depends.
If you think they forgot you, you can tweet them your ticket #.
You will see it in link - https://cloud.digitalocean.com/support/tickets/1234567, where 1234567 is your ticket #.
Did you submitted ticket via Control Panel?
If yes:
Go to Support Center - Tickets, or click on link directly.
Select your ticket.
You will notice that link is changed from https://cloud.digitalocean.com/support/tickets/
to https://cloud.digitalocean.com/support/tickets/1234567.
Notice seven number at end of link (e.g. 1234567), this is your ticket#!
It will not be 1234567, it is some random number.
I’m just an end user. The website has not been changed since we lauched months ago. Today the site has been extremely slow and timing out. It’s basically unusable. I honestly have no idea where to start. I contacted the support on this site but they just sent me some FAQ article instead of actually looking into the issue. This was after the 3 hour wait for an initial response.
I'm just an end user. -> Does that mean you don’t manage/own this website or you are end user of DO. If you it is not your site, contact site administrator.
If you are manager/owner/administrator:
Servers DigitalOcean provide is unmanaged, so as far as I know, they don’t and can’t access your server(droplet). I’m not mod or DO employee, so take it with grain of salt.
Anyways as there could be many problems.
What I can recommend is checking are you under DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service). First symptom is slow/unresponsive site.
To check that login into your DigitalOcean account and select your droplet. Look out for bandwidth graph. Compare it in last 24 hours, 7 days, 1 month. If you see massive difference (it is much more than it was normally) it could be this.
If you have Wordpress site, you could be under XML-RPC attack.
This sounds stupid, but you can even try restarting your platform (SSH -> sudo reboot), maybe it bugged out somewhere, or your app have memory leaks.
Without details, we really can’t help, neither community, neither support.
I hope you will fix it in some reasonable time.
Good luck :)
I am sorry to hear that. DigitalOcean is an un-managed host which means that while we will make sure your droplets boot properly and have a network connection and these things operate properly our support team does not generally provide assistance with software installation, troubleshooting or configuration.
We strongly recommend that users hosting public facing services on DO be prepared to perform day to day system administration tasks on their own and we provide a ton of resources to help you learn.
This Q&A section is community driven but myself and other DO employees are also available here to help as best we can with exactly those issues that are outside the scope of our official support team.
If you can share a bit more information we (myself, my co-workers and the community members here) will do our best to help you identify the problem and resolve it.
You say that your site is very slow and you are seeing timeouts.
Is your website static HTML or is it built on a platform like WordPress?
What web server software are you running (Apache, Nginx)?
What operating system are you using on your server (Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian, etc)?
Also, in order for you to troubleshoot anything you will need access to your droplet’s command line either from the console in the control panel or via ssh (recommended)
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I have some ticket.. but until now no answer . Why?
My 2 sites are down because of the lock of my digital ocean account and not responding to the email and ticket. Please check my ticket and reply to me.
Thnakyou