Jon Schwenn Author
Red Hat Certified Architect
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- WordPress
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Published Tutorial in Series: The Navigator's Guide to DigitalOcean
Navigator's Guide: Modular Infrastructure Configuration
The previous section used Terraform and Ansible to provision resources (Droplets, Load Balancers, and Floating IPs) and deploy your WordPress application. In this supplemental section, we discuss some ways to simplify... -
Published Tutorial in Series: The Navigator's Guide to DigitalOcean
Navigator's Guide: Deployment Solution with Configuration Management
The previous chapter demonstrated how to reduce downtime by adding redundancy at the web frontend layer of your infrastructure. If your service works with files and data, you'll also need a centralized backend — which... -
Published Tutorial in Series: The Navigator's Guide to DigitalOcean
Navigator's Guide: High Availability
It doesn't matter if you're running a small blog, a large application, or an API; you never want it to be offline. A single point of failure is any part of your infrastructure that will cause downtime if it fails. A h... -
Published Tutorial in Series: The Navigator's Guide to DigitalOcean
Navigator's Guide: Initial Environment Setup
This is the first hands-on portion of the book. First, we'll go over the tools we'll be using, how they fit together, and how they can be beneficial to you as you begin to create and manage your infrastructure on Digi... -
Published Tutorial in Series: The Navigator's Guide to DigitalOcean
Navigator's Guide: Our Solutions for Cloud Computing
Before we set sail, we want to share a brief infrastructure history lesson. This will help provide context on the needs that cloud infrastructure fills and how to take full advantage of it to get the most value, perfo... -
Published Tutorial in Series: The Navigator's Guide to DigitalOcean
Navigator's Guide: DigitalOcean, Customer Success, and You
In the introduction, we said that this book would give you the tools and the understanding you need to run a successful infrastructure on DigitalOcean — but what is DigitalOcean, and who are we to tell you what to do? -
Published Tutorial in Series: The Navigator's Guide to DigitalOcean
Navigator's Guide: Preface
How do I scale and grow my infrastructure for my business? More importantly, how do I prevent a crisis? How do I know what my decisions will also impact? Am I asking the right questions? This book will help answer qu... -
Published Tutorial series
The Navigator's Guide to DigitalOcean
This is an early release version of the contents of the Navigator's Guide book, an offering from the DigitalOcean Solutions Engineers. The goal of the book is to help business customers plan their infrastructure needs... -
Published Tutorial
How to Create an Encrypted File System on a DigitalOcean Block Storage Volume
DigitalOcean Volumes are scalable, SSD-based block storage devices. This tutorial covers how to create a passphrase-protected encrypted disk on your Volume containing a file systemm anually mount the encrypted file sy... -
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How to Connect to a MySQL Server Remotely with MySQL Workbench
Use MySQL Workbench to connect securely to your remote MySQL database using SSH. -
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CoreOS ssh asks for password
Hi Greg, You’ll want to make sure that you are using an RSA keypair to log in and not a DSA keypair. That should do … -
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I got over 3k fail2ban emails
Well, fail2ban is killing their attempts. CSF would similarly block them as well. For the sake of reducing log entires and email… -
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Wordpress repeatedly gives "Error establishing database connection" inspite of having JetPack enabled
Jetpack doesn’t block XML-RPC traffic as it uses XML-RPC itself. The protect module of Jetpack detects brute force attacks from the… -
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Using the v2 API and my Home Computer to Automatically Update a Domain Name A Record (Like Dynamic DNS)
Hey there, You’ll need to do some basic bash scripting. There are a few sites that will return just the requesting IP address fr… -
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Database stopped responding
Hey there, Thank you for reaching out to us! I would make sure that MySQL is actually running. It may have crashed if the Dro… -
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Configuring DNS for domain and SSL certificate
Hey there, You can point A records within your CloudFlare DNS zone to the IP address of your servers. The name fiel… -
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Does Digital Ocean support CPANAL
Hey there, You can certainly install cPanel/WHM on a CentOS Droplet. We do not sell licenses for cPanel, but if you purchase tha… -
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Fresh Install of OpenVPN Access Server Connection Refused
Hey there, You may want to make sure that OpenVPN AS is not binding to the Anchor IP that we use for floating IP’s (The Anchor I… -
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Best way to extend mysql database between two or more servers
Hey there, There are a few ways to think about this issue. You may be able to spread the database across multiple storage option… -
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.Htaccess file redirects configuration
Hey there, It’s hard to say without seeing your exact .htaccess file, but [this tutorial](https://www.digitalocean.com/com…