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No reply from support in almost 24 hours, and I can't even login to the support site now. Status says everything OK, but links are all like this: and the page is a mess:
https://cloudsupport.digitalocean.com/s/$Label...
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DigitalOcean
Ubuntu 18.04
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Nothing to do with LTS or not, I’ve been upgrading this way since 2014, and -d is for development version. Not recommended.
It a…
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Hi there; I'm having a problem updating 2 droplets, one from 18.04, the other from 18.10. Note that in the error below, it complains about not being able to find ubuntu-minimal, however, if I try and install it, it sa...
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jonathan
DigitalOcean
Ubuntu 18.04
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Quickest version of question:
What's the simplest way to detect a network error (say, 8 failed pings in a row) and then trigger a reboot?
A bit more detail
I don't seem to be able to resolve a networking issue (more o...
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jonathan
Networking
Monitoring
Ubuntu
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Yesterday, I found my Asterisk server was getting hammered by someone trying to hack their way in. So I closed of ALL ports except ssh for my IP, and the IP of the server I peer too. Instant load reduction, all good.
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jonathan
DigitalOcean
Monitoring
Ubuntu
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My trusty old "manually installed" LEMP stack on a $5 14.04 x32 Ubuntu droplet has served me very well over the last year - 5 sites (phpbb, Wordpress etc) are running happily, response times excellent, CPU around 30%,...
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LEMP
Ubuntu
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It depends on how high the load is at the time of snapshotting.
Who mentioned snapshotting? Not me.
Note you’re not payin…
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OK, perhaps that's a bit of a drastic headline, but 20Gb droplet backups are now taking nearly 40 minutes. A "fast" resize should take 15 seconds, it takes over 4 minutes each way from 512Mb to 1Gb and back.
Earlier ...
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jonathan
DigitalOcean
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OK, so this new design... I quite like it! And no, I don't fear change.
But what is really REALLY doing my head in is having to click the button TWICE every darn time! I get it - I understand! PLEASE set a cookie so I...
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jonathan
Control Panels
DigitalOcean
Ubuntu
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If I try and edit my profile at https://www.digitalocean.com/community/users/jonathan/profile
when I try and update bio and website, it says my username is not available.
I KNOW! It's my username - I've already got ...
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The customer has no interaction with the remote DB server. So you can rule that out.
Did the certificate work BEFORE that change…
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I’ve got other weirdness now.
Plenty of “`W: Failed to fetch mirror://mirrors.ubuntu.com/mirrors.txt/dists/utopic/main/binary-i…
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What is showing this? Google? A toolbar like AVG?
Just find whoever is showing this and use their report form to confirm that it…
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I just asked support the following question:
Is there any kind of daemon/app/api I can have running on my Ubuntu server or elsewhere that will notify my as soon as an automated backup starts or completes? Maybe someth...
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If it were me, I’d spend half a day first squeezing all the juice out of what you’ve got, first.
Follow some of the optimization…
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Well, with massive thanks to Brad on tech support, it’s now fixed and working.
The solution was to comment out the ffmpeg and dr…
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Just trying to upgrade my Ubuntu as I've done many times before, but I'm coming up with a network error here at DigitalOcean. Here's what's happening just after the normal warning about the newly created port...
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In addition to the above answers, you could also use the free Cloudflare service and nginx’s fastcgi cache. The combined power of t…
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jonathan
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Hi there; I was in touch with support about this a few months back and I didn’t realise it was still blocked.
The response was:
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jonathan
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Thanks for sorting - it worked for one day, but unfortunately seems to have reverted to previous fault. Have updated ticket.
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