jonathan
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Support site is down, and support not replying
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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Cannot update to 19.04 -the essential package 'ubuntu-minimal' could not be located.
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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Cannot update to 19.04 -the essential package 'ubuntu-minimal' could not be located.
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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Droplet remains alive but "falls off" network. OR... How to reboot automatically when condition detected?
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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Weird spikey CPU load curve over 90 minutes
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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If you were starting with a brand new LEMP stack on Ubuntu 15.04, what would you install?
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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DigitalOcean slowing down - "3 hour possible droplet creation". Is the honeymoon over?
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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DigitalOcean slowing down - "3 hour possible droplet creation". Is the honeymoon over?
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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PLEASE set a cookie to remember new design acknowledgement!
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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Community profile edit not working.
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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After I setup a remote database server, I am facing SSL certificate unrecognized issues.
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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Can't seem to update Ubuntu 14.04.1 (Trusty) to 14.10 (Utopic) - source network errors.
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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My wordpress site has being hacked
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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Pinging the DO API for backup events, perhaps to be picked up via IFTTT?
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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I have many domains: Should I get one droplet at $80/month or a couple at $20month?
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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Can't seem to update Ubuntu 14.04.1 (Trusty) to 14.10 (Utopic) - source network errors.
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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Can't seem to update Ubuntu 14.04.1 (Trusty) to 14.10 (Utopic) - source network errors.
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... ``` T... -
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One droplet for each Wordpress site (domain)?
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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Outgoing connections on port 25 / 587 / 143 blocked over IPv6?
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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Just a quick warning - London droplets aren't backing up.
Thanks for sorting - it worked for one day, but unfortunately seems to have reverted to previous fault. Have updated ticket.