Ubuntu 14.04 image contains a lot of unneeded packages
The Ubuntu 14.04 x32 image doesn't seem to be cloud optimized. There's a lot of extra cruft that shouldn't be there (possibly because of the GUI version of wireshark)
The following commands help to clean up the image.
apt-get --purge remove font* libx11* x11-* landscape-common w3m ntfs-3g ppp libxcl*
apt-get --purge autoremove
I hope DigitalOcean will come with better default images that don't contain all that cruft.
Just quick warning on this one. If you're actually running things like nginx it could also be removed. This would likely be a good approach on a bare system before configuration. For what ever reason nginx-full has dependencies on