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Tutorial
DNS is the naming system that is used to bind a domain name to a web server. In this guide, we will change the nameservers for a domain that we have registered and point it to a DigitalOcean Droplet.
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By
Josh Barnett, Kathleen Juell
Getting Started
DNS
DigitalOcean
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Tutorial
Ubuntu's next Long Term Support release, version 16.04 (Xenial Xerus), is due to be released on April 21, 2016. This guide explains the upgrade process for systems including (but not limited to) DigitalOcean Droplets ...
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By
Brennen Bearnes
System Tools
DigitalOcean
Ubuntu
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Tutorial
X2Go provides a working "cloud desktop," complete with all the advantages of an always-online, remotely-accessible, and easily-scalable computing system with a very fast network. It is also more responsive and more se...
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By
Alexandru Andrei
Debian
Open Source
DigitalOcean
Getting Started
Networking
Write for DO
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The free How To Code in Python eBook can be used as an Open Educational Resource and an alternative to a textbook in the classroom, as well as be made available for the wider public through libraries.
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By
Lisa Tagliaferri
Python
Development
DigitalOcean
Books
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Tutorial series
Python is an extremely readable and versatile programming language. Written in a relatively straightforward style with immediate feedback on errors, Python offers simplicity and versatility, in terms of extensibility ...
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By
Lisa Tagliaferri
Python
Development
DigitalOcean
Books
Conceptual
Ubuntu 18.04
Programming Project
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Book
A free, open, eBook to learn more about machine learning in Python through completing programming projects. Project-based learning offers the opportunity to gain hands-on experience by digging into complex, real-world...
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By
Lisa Tagliaferri, Brian Boucheron
Python
Machine Learning
Development
DigitalOcean
Books
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Tutorial
One way to send and receive email through your own custom domain is to use a third-party mail service, such as the mail service included with Google Apps (Gmail) or Zoho. The main benefit of using a third-party mail s...
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By
Mitchell Anicas
Email
DigitalOcean
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Tutorial series
DNS, or the domain name system, is an essential component of modern internet communication. It allows us to reference computers by names instead of IP addresses. In this series, we will cover the basic ideas behind ...
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By
Justin Ellingwood, Melissa Anderson and Mitchell Anicas
DNS
Conceptual
Linux Basics
FAQ
Networking
DigitalOcean
Product Documentation
Ubuntu
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Tutorial
One way to send and receive email through your own custom domain is to use a third-party mail service, such as Zoho or Google Apps. The main benefit of using a third-party mail service, as opposed to managing your own...
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By
Mitchell Anicas
Email
DigitalOcean
DNS
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Book
This book is written with the belief that familiarity with some core areas of system administration will benefit anyone who uses computers, from individuals who would like to learn how to automate their systems and da...
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By
Jamon Camisso
Books
Getting Started
Linux Basics
DigitalOcean
-
Tutorial
Heartbeat is an open source program that provides cluster infrastructure capabilities—cluster membership and messaging—to client servers, which is a critical component in a high availability (HA) server infrastructure...
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By
Mitchell Anicas
Networking
DigitalOcean
High Availability
Load Balancing
Ubuntu
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Tutorial
The DigitalOcean metadata service includes a field called "user-data", which can be used to specify a script that will be run as your server is brought online. The CloudInit program, which runs these scripts, can pro...
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By
Justin Ellingwood
API
DigitalOcean
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Book
There are numerous tools, networking configurations, and processes that can be used to deploy, monitor, and run a Kubernetes cluster. The book examines each topic in turn so that anyone who follows along will be able ...
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By
Kathleen Juell, Hanif Jetha, Jamon Camisso
Kubernetes
Books
DigitalOcean
-
Tutorial
DigitalOcean's web based control panel provides a convenient, point-and-click interface for managing Droplets. There are many times, however, when a command-line tool may be a preferable alternative. doctl, the offic...
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By
Marko Mudrinić
DigitalOcean
API
Configuration Management
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Tutorial series
CoreOS is a powerful Linux distribution built to make large, scalable deployments on varied infrastructure simple to manage. Based on a build of Chrome OS, CoreOS maintains a lightweight host system and uses Docker co...
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By
Justin Ellingwood, Mitchell Anicas and Brennen Bearnes
Clustering
Docker
Scaling
System Tools
Conceptual
CoreOS
API
DigitalOcean
Networking
Load Balancing
Nginx
Security
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Tutorial
A cloud-config file is a special script that is used to define configuration details for your server as it is being brought online for the first time. These are often used for completing common tasks that a user woul...
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By
Justin Ellingwood
Deployment
API
DigitalOcean
Initial Server Setup
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Tutorial series
When creating a new Ubuntu 14.04 server, there are some basic steps that you should take to ensure that your server is secure and configured properly. This tutorial series covers connecting to your server and general ...
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By
Melissa Anderson and Justin Ellingwood
Getting Started
Linux Basics
DigitalOcean
Product Documentation
Initial Server Setup
Security
Ubuntu
System Tools
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Tutorial
Create and deploy a scalable WordPress instance consisting of a MySQL database server, a GlusterFS distributed filesystem, Nginx web servers and an Nginx load balancer. By using user-data and droplet meta-data we wil...
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By
Ryan Quinn
WordPress
LEMP
DigitalOcean
Scaling
Load Balancing
MySQL
Nginx
Ubuntu
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Tool
Estimate and understand your Droplets' bandwidth allowance on DigitalOcean.
DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean Accounts
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Tutorial
Velero is a convenient backup tool for Kubernetes clusters that compresses and backs up Kubernetes objects to object storage. It also takes snapshots of your cluster’s Persistent Volumes using your cloud provider’s bl...
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By
Hanif Jetha, Jamon Camisso
Backups
Kubernetes
Solutions
Object Storage
DigitalOcean
Block Storage