buy DDoS protection proxy?

and how about instead of 2 droplets, you use one bigger?

location phpmyadmin { <br>root /usr/share/phpmyadmin; <br>fastcgipass yourphp_handler; <br>} <br> <br>?

If you are using CentOS then <br> <br>/var/log/httpd/*.log for Apache <br>/var/log/mysqld.log for mysql

That is not Windows to restart it every time you get in trouble. It’s a server, so read mysql/apache logs and fix the issue or hire…

Digital Ocean is not web hosting, here you get unmanaged VPS that you can scale up with your needs.

use the force, luke!

I don’t see from logs that he gained access? (he only tried and failed, so you should considere using fail2ban or CSF)

postfix

You can mount Amazon S3 if that is ok for your usage?

You should check is Dolphin PHP 5.3 compatible, because if this doesn’t work out of box, there is high probability that other stuff…

no

Read my post on server fault regarding this <br> <br>http://serverfault.com/questions/56148/which-php-opcode-cache-one-should-use-a…

Hire a system admin?

I just pinged it. <br> <br>Pinging 192.241.213.63 with 32 bytes of data: <br>Reply from 192.241.213.63: bytes=32 time=197ms TTL=48…