dave
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Tutorial about mailserver
If you’re looking to setup a dedicated server for this then might I suggest you don’t do that, and instead just pay Google $5 a mon… -
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Nginx Security for wordpress & phpmyadmin
echo “allow 127.0.0.1;” > /etc/nginx/allowlist <br>echo “allow 192.168.0.155; # whatever your ip is” >> /etc/nginx/allowlist <br… -
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how to secure access to an nginx folder?
it all looks fine, the only thing I can think of is www-data doesn’t have access to read your .htpasswd file. Check your file permi… -
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-bash: django-admin.py: command not found
is django-admin.py located in your bin folder? /usr/local/bin/django-admin.py <br> <br>This is the contents of my django-admin.py <… -
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Database credentials and how to access them..
If they have the ip, username and password to your server and it hasn’t yet been setup then there are no database credentials yet. … -
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Preserving IP address on full droplet resize
I don’t believe there is a guaranteed way to do it. They do their best to give you back the same ip – to help the process they exp… -
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Is there a memory usage log?
personally, I installed Munin: http://munin-monitoring.org/ -
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MySQL root password
Easier to just reset it. Try this: <br> <br>service mysql stop <br>echo “UPDATE mysql.user SET Password = PASSWORD(‘mypassword’) W… -
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too good to be true?
I did a benchmark comparison of the 2GB plan before leaving Linode for here. It was nearly exactly 30% slower with 2 cores compared… -
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Multiple domains hosting?
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How do you migrate from another VPS to DO?
The first thing you will need to do is setup your Digital Ocean database server and make it a slave to your existing server so that… -
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Wordpress Error
it looks like wordpress has its own internal cron job but it’s unable to access that file. Have you tried to access the HTTP url ma… -
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website in nginx tutorial not found
It’s not binding because something else is already using that port. You need to check what else is running see what it may be. <br>… -
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apache vs. nginx for a game?
Nginx + Varnish, definitely -
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Which plan do you recommend and other questions
Yes, 2-3 for one domain. The reason being that you don’t want your web server and your SQL server to fight for resources (CPU/RAM) … -
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Which plan do you recommend and other questions
1) When it comes to recommendations people can obviously only answer from personal preferences. If it were me, I would create a clu… -
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A droplet that runs NGINX and hosts/serves all my site's statics
I can’t speak for the staff, but I can say that I run my site here which gets ~1.5m unique visitors a month and many hundreds of hi…