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It doesn’t look like an overwhelming number of HTTP processes running, but check your access_log for lots of requests to XML-RPC. T…
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That looks like a lot of wordpress processes running. Check your access_log and see if you are getting hammered by XML-RPC requests…
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Many of the addresses in Digital Oceans IP range are blocked by a number of big email providers. Google is pretty good, others, lik…
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This is more of a conceptual question about when is the appropriate time to spit a database server off to it's own droplet.
So say you have a LAMP type solution running on a 2vcpu/4GB droplet and you think it's time t...
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We have not had a failure on DigitalOcean since we started hosting here, and I would say that they are very good at maintaining…
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Yes, DO has some great tutorials on HA... but they all focus on HA within a single DO data center.
I may be a bit old school, but building HA within a single data center leaves the possibility that human error or nat...
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I haven’t given up on DO for high availability across multiple sites, but it is definitely not as easy as we might hope. The lack o…
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And the battle rages on…
I consider having a private sending ip address essential to managing our sending reputation. We started…
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yep, that is the standard message charter is sending for too much mail *from a range of addresses under the same ISP that they don’…
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I want to add a status update for others that have run into similar problems.
We spent a lot of time with an executive escalation …
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Is there some bad blood between DO and Spectrum?
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Is there anything digital ocean can do to help here? Sendgrid isn’t inexpensive, so this will essentially double my hosting costs b…
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From what I can tell, the 20 connections are mine and are expected.
How would it bypass the postfix logs? You are thinking I ha…
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Still fighting the battle and could use a little input on postfix.
I pulled my postfix logs for the days leading up to the “bloc…
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SendGrid has a great service, but at some point we had decided to just handle it ourselves. You’re right though, sending email is e…
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I am suddenly having issues getting email delivered to charter.net and rr.com, which are both part of spectrum. I don't know if the block is based on domain or ip or maybe a block of ips. I'm asking here on the off ch...
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@moisey, I’m going to toss in a compliment for Digital Ocean here. I was on another service provider who advertised everything you …
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Hotmail is pretty picky about how fast you send transactions. As @hansen said, the mail log should give you the reason that mail ca…
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First off, we provide a service to non-profits that is used to manage events, including check-in services. It's not the end of the world if the app is down, but downtime really is a problem for our users and can cause...
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Hi Dave,
Thanks for your question. I wanted to address the specific questions that you brought up first:
Failover to generator backup was never tested and failed when needed
All of the Datacenters we use always test t...
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Thanks for jumping in @jimmont, I think that hipaa guidance has gotten even more specific since I last reviewed it. I wrote my orig…
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