Gary Williams

Contributions

10 Contributions
  • Answer

    Which Process is taking all the memory?

    Hi Alex, Thanks! I have now tried atop, top and htop. I didn’t know these existed. Fascinating to watch the server operation i…
    • By garywilliams
  • Question

    Which Process is taking all the memory?

    Hi Guys, Twice today my server memory usage has climbed from its stable 35% upto 92%. The first instance corrected itself, the second time I power cycled the droplet. How can I determine which process is hogging all...
    Accepted Answer: Hello, @garywilliams You can ssh to your droplet and use either top or htop to see which processes is consuming most of the droplet's memory. In order to see the memory usage in htop, once you've executed the htop co...
    2 • • By garywilliams Monitoring
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    DO refuses to resize my droplet.

    Hi Sri, My ticket number is [Ticket #3213926] Rezize Droplet Regards Gary
    • By garywilliams
  • Question

    DO refuses to resize my droplet.

    I followed the instructions in my account but when I hit resize, I got the message "Something has gone wrong".
    3 • • By garywilliams Backups
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    Backup my applications MySQL databases and copy to DropBox or similar

    Hi Kalin, Genius!! My problem solved. I’m going to try it now. Many Thanks Gary
    • By garywilliams
  • Question

    Backup my applications MySQL databases and copy to DropBox or similar

    Hi All, I have an online mysql based application hosted in a droplet. I use a script to automatically backup my dB's to my DO server every 6 hours. Is there a better/safer way to do these backups and how can I copy ...
    2 • • By garywilliams Backups
  • Question

    Seeing my websites

    Hi, I have created a new droplet from the backup of another droplet. I can ftp in and see all the websites. Unfortunately, I cannot see the websites in the browser. I just get "Access Forbidden". How do I get to s...
    1 • • By garywilliams DigitalOcean
  • Question

    New droplet + LAMP

    Hi, When a new droplet is created, is LAMP automatically included? Regards Gary
    2 • • By garywilliams Apache DigitalOcean Ubuntu
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    How do I turn my droplet back on? I can't access it.

    Hi jtittle, Thanks for the information. My droplet is all sorted now. Cheers Gary
    • By garywilliams
  • Question

    How do I turn my droplet back on? I can't access it.

    How do I turn my droplet back on? I can't access it.
    2 • • By garywilliams DigitalOcean