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I'm running Centos 7. All the usual places to change the DNS resolver have a warning message that this file is created by cloudinit. So where do I actually set the resolver address? That is I need a file not created b...
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I already run Centos 7.7. I am assuming I can’t safely upgrade to centos 8, but I am double checking.
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Note this only works for 2048 bits and obviously smaller. Are you trying to do 4096 bits? Otherwise everything looks OK.
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I’m an nginx user, but my first question is are you throttling the web server? Otherwise, yeah you can serve a high bandwidth. Than…
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Isn’t the whole idea of using sshkeys to not have a password for root?
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You could try ifconfig (or similar if you aren’t running linux) and look for errors. More overkill, you could run wireshark. My gue…
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Set up vnstat. The network connection to monitor varies from distribution to distribution. Note that 2T is a lot of data.
If you…
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Set up vnstat. The network connection to monitor varies from distribution to distribution. Note that 2T is a lot of data.
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Kind of silly to answer a question this old, but I was having the same problem. What I forgot to do on a new droplet running postf…
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I’ve basically given up on the sys admins to block the DO hackers. I assume this is a problem on all VPSs, given the cost we pay th…
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https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/new-droplet-plans-frequently-asked-questions
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You should do a speedtest before and after installing OpenVPN. It is the speed of the droplet serving the internet that I am refer…
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I spent a while hacking on this and figured out the tricks. Hopefully this will save the next person an hour or two of head banging…
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I've attempted to fill the TXT field in my DNS for the DKIM key. I'm getting a message that the field can only be 512 characters. These days you need a 2048 key. (1024 uses to be good enough) Anyway, there is a proced...
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I’ve made it a point to keep two snapshots of each droplet. After I take a snapshot, I reload that snapshot instead of booting. Tha…
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Wordpress hackers are everywhere. I don’t run wordpress and get the same nonsense, and very little from Digital Ocean. Basically yo…
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Digital Ocean has a hacker that they refuse to drop as a customer. I have complained about “stretchoid” for months. Unfortunately t…
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I report a particular hacker using Digital Ocean on nearly a daily basis. I supply logs to show the hacker access to my droplet. I provide links to abusedb.com to show the IP is being used for hacking.
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Set up vnstat to get an independent measure of your traffic.
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Just run sshguard. It shuts down the hackers.
How would you maintain your droplet without ssh access?
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It seems that Digital Ocean has turned into bulletproof hosting. I report hackers using Digital Ocean VPNs. I have one hacker in p…
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