There are a myriad of ways to configure a server to use resources more efficiently and decrease load per user, thereby improving performance and reducing the risk of failure.
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I am using a 4 GB Memory / 2 Intel vCPUs / 80 GB Disk / NYC1 - Ubuntu 20.04 (LTS) x64 for a FiveM server. Everything works, but the loading time to get into the server is 3 minutes, while my old hosting was only 50 se...
1 answer • 27 days ago • By BubblyAquamarineBoatGamingNetworkingServer Optimization
In this guide, you will install and configure a Memcached server. You’ll also add authentication to secure Memcached using Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL). Finally, you’ll learn how to bind Memcached t...
2 months ago • By Jamon CamissoCachingFirewallInteractiveServer OptimizationUbuntu 22.04SecurityUbuntu
Helo. Recently, our website is getting error 502/504 in certain time. the error often happen at 10 AM and 02 PM in Indonesia time. besides, we get 524 error. in addition, when the website is error, our CPU and memory ...
2 answers • 3 months ago • By SandyLightCyanSubmarineNginxServer OptimizationWordPress
Hi, How to deploy multiple instances of same web application on one server which would be accessed by different client, How could I achieve this use case,
1 answer • 4 months ago • By FloatingGreenBlueSquidBuilding a SaaSInitial Server SetupNginxServer Optimization
Hello Team, I have recently moved my website from Namecheap to Digital Ocean. I have installed the SSL and everything. However, my domain is ending up with /cgi-sys/defaultwebpage error. As there is no Cpanel or WHM i...
No answers yet • 5 months ago • By mosaabjamalahmed89Initial Server SetupServer Optimization
Hello, I’m running a droplet with 1vcpu and 2GB of ram and I have a script that takes the video and audio URLs from the Reddit API and attempts to merge them into one video using FFmpeg. It works on my Windows 10 PC w...
No answers yet • 5 months ago • By SyntaxisCSAPINode.jsServer Optimization
HEIC support will not work on Nextcloud. I followed the tutorial for deploying a nextcloud server on an Ubuntu 18.04 droplet. Everything works well; I can access it through the web and the app. The functonality is the...
1 answer • 5 months ago • By AdamUbuntu 18.04DigitalOcean DropletsInitial Server SetupApachePHPServer Optimization
Hi,I would like to resize my droplet from 2CPU AMD to something more powerfull. I expect huge trafic and for this purpose I would like to have min 32CPU and I don’t see any option. It is true, that DigitalOcean offer ...
1 answer • 6 months ago • By dingosaurusServer Optimization
Hello-there! In many tutorials, caching significantly improves requests per second using benchmarking tools like WRK and AB. For some reason, caching doesn’t seem to improve request per second at all - it might even ...
1 answer • 7 months ago • By davidlittlefieldCoralServer OptimizationCachingNginxHAProxy
Hi, can you please help with us to give information about how we can setup https to our droplets? in our droplets located IOS application, and we need secure our application. thank you.
1 answer • 7 months ago • By egasanliServer Optimization
I run popunder ad campaigns and my website stops working as soon as visitor go above 500 on Google Analytics. I m Currently using: Basic / 1 GB / 3 vCPUs. I don’t know what should I do from stop this from happening.
1 answer • 7 months ago • By jamessitton044Server Optimization
It seems what is missing on DigitalOcean community is a deep discussion about the major difference between these 3 web servers: OpenLitespeed (Litespeed) vs. Apache vs. Nginx So let us begin a new question here to tal...
No answers yet • 7 months ago • By rickchazApacheNginxServer Optimization
Can anyone at DO confirm the physical location of the LON1 data centre? I can’t seem to find this information on the DO website. I need to confirm details of the data centre physical security for our security policy w...
1 answer • 7 months ago • By Malcolm ElsworthServer OptimizationSecurityDigitalOcean
Today when tried to log in to my WordPress dashboard, I can’t!And I tried to log in to cyberpanel control panel but I can’t, first I saw 503 error then I tried to Turn off Droplet then Turn on Droplet from digitalocea...
1 answer • 7 months ago • By engmta888Server Optimization
I have one web server that only has security configurations. I have another web server that has the same security configurations, plus the following optimizations: webp, compression, cache, faster nameservers, http2, ...
1 answer • 8 months ago • By davidlittlefieldCoralServer OptimizationNginxUbuntuDigitalOcean DropletsSecurity
Hi,Suddenly the CPU and Bandwidth spiked on its own 2 times and the site went down for 5-10 mins. Image - https://i.ibb.co/HqYK93F/1.png Example link Checking logs saw this error - [alert] 12197#0: *2936829 socket() f...
2 answers • 8 months ago • By SP1NginxServer OptimizationApache
please allow send emails, DigitalOcean already works with many users using services like cpanel, this users uses services like contact form, not email marketing, is important to user send email from droplet, only bloc...
1 answer • 8 months ago • By droplet04becf08ba5cbc7a496EmailServer Optimization
Information:https://whatismybrowser.com/w/KE8Y5Y4 Problem:The website I’m hosting on a droplet takes between 1.15 and 1.5 seconds to load after inactivity. It only takes between 200 to 500 milliseconds afterward. Is t...
1 answer • 8 months ago • By davidlittlefieldNginxServer OptimizationDigitalOcean DropletsDigitalOcean SpacesCDNUbuntu 18.04Load BalancingHTML
I run on a baremetal server virtual system 128GB memory and 14 CPU’s do I need the same in a droplet? Regards Tjeerd
Accepted Answer: Hello, For 128GB memory, I would recommend going with the Memory optimized Droplets. Also, what I usually do before moving to a new server is to check my current resources utilization and make sure that I actually nee...
2 answers • 8 months ago • By tsEelCentOSServer Optimization