Ben Bishop
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Setting up development/deploy/production -server
I work in a similar way to how you want to do it. (Plus points for Vagrant BTW, it’s the ONLY way to develop locally!) This is h… -
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Email not arriving in 1and1 Mailbox sent via Mandrill - DNS, MX, SPF, DKIM?
In short email sent via Mandrill app to 1and1 email accounts are not arriving yet they arrive to other types of email accounts. The long version.... My domain, e.g. domain.com, is registered with 1and1, the name serve... -
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How do I UPDATE Word Press? I'm running LEMP, Ubuntu 12.04, Nginx?
@shaneharder, are you trying to update and the site is asking for FTP details? <br> <br>If so its a bit of a misnomer. Its more lik… -
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Want to Know How Much VPS can handle?
+1 for one properly configured $5 box. You could easily cope with more than 300,000+ at one time. -
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A few newby questions
To add to this: <br> <br>Q1: I have three sites with SSLs running from the one box (1 IP). <br>Q2: Yeah, don’t bother.... removes r… -
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Cannot log into WordPress on CentOS with nginx
The site seems to resolve OK and the login page appears OK. /wp-login/ or <br> <br>Can you elaborate on, “Its like it tries to red… -
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Round robin DNS
Interesting, thanks for updating this thread Julien. Noted! -
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Multiple PTR (reverse DNS) Records (Postfix)
Excellent, thanks very much for your help Kamal and Pablo! -
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Multiple PTR (reverse DNS) Records (Postfix)
I have multiple websites running on each droplet though. <br> <br>If I understand what you are suggesting, while this would solve … -
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Multiple PTR (reverse DNS) Records (Postfix)
I don’t have any domain names in the PTR record in the DO DNS section. I named my droplets with unique names when creating them. <b… -
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Multiple PTR (reverse DNS) Records (Postfix)
Only the ones setup by digital ocean which point to the hostname of the VPS. <br> <br>e.g. <br>xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -> server a <br>xxx… -
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Multiple PTR (reverse DNS) Records (Postfix)
Postfix is setup on my droplet where multiple domains (sites) are hosted. When sending some transactional emails from sites, they bounce to certain recipients though. From the mail.log (redacted), "... (host mx.bt.lon... -
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Securing a new LAMP/LEMP server
Apologies for hijacking this thread <br> <br>@Pablo, I bow to your greater knowledge, why use a port below 1024? -
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How to update WordPress?
Yeah its permissions issue. Change the ownership of the WordPress directory and all contents to the web server user as described ab… -
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Can I create a clone from a dropplet?
Power off Droplet A and create a snapshot of Droplet A. Then either: <br> <br>1. Create Droplet B, choosing the image of droplet A … -
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Multiple sites on a single droplet: Apache + nginx
+1 for nginx. Its FAST, way faster than my last setup and thats without even using Varnish. Varnish is great but requires a bit mor… -
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Email notifications for server resources
Apologies for jumping in here. <br> <br>@yoavz.z - what exactly is ‘load’ and presumably there is a command to view the current loa… -
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Off Site / Remote Back up to Amazon S3
I have a couple of VPS with DO but am conscious that should anything happen to them I would like my data backed up. Does anyone have any suggestions about where to start with backups to S3 from a DO VPS? I use S3 / Gl... -
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Can DO explain why this customer server was shutdown without notice. Are you guys reliable ?
Same here..... impeccable so far, long may it continue! -
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New Relic Monitoring
Hey does anyone have any experience in getting individual website monitoring working with new relic and would like to share their experience? I have the server monitoring working fine (great stats and iPhone app BTW)....