Ryan Quinn Author
Software Engineer @ DigitalOcean.
Skills
- PHP
- Perl
- Linux Sysadmin
- Linux Distro Development
- Javascript
- LAMP
- nodejs
- Ruby
- LEMP
- Apache
- Nginx
- C#
- DNS
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WordPress One-Click Application Quickstart - whats going on here
Hello. First, I apologize if the recent changes caused issues with your automation. The change that was made to the vhost file h…Accepted Answer: Hello. First, I apologize if the recent changes caused issues with your automation. The change that was made to the vhost file h… -
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Why Is Apache Used Over Nginx For Wordpress One-Click?
Hi! I maintain the DigitalOcean one-click images and did some testing with a LEMP stack for the WordPress image a couple years a… -
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Are One-Click Install Apps "safe to use"?
Hi. I am the Software Engineer here at DO who maintains our one-click images. Are One-Click Install App images “safe to use” b…Accepted Answer: Hi. I am the Software Engineer here at DO who maintains our one-click images. Are One-Click Install App images “safe to use” b… -
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Consumer report between 05/18 and 06/18
We do not provide this type of report because all billing at DigitalOcean is based on the calendar month. -
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How to regain access droplet if my main machine is not available?
Removing keys from the control panel has no effect on existing droplets. If you have a root password set you can log in via the we… -
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NGINX as load balancer question
Nginx running as a load balancer will use a lot less resources than a LEMP stack serving a site. In most cases, because network th… -
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Looking For A Reserve Proxy On Digitalocean
Are you using this proxy to get around network limitations or blocking? If so you would likely be better served and have less trou… -
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Connection to Apache server blocked?
There isn’t anything special you need to do to allow web traffic. You could try using curl on your droplet to see if the web s… -
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Setting up custom Nameservers on WHM with a GoDaddy Domain?
If you plan to be running your DNS from WHM you would not be using DNS services from either GoDaddy or DigitalOcean but would be ru… -
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Nginx still displaying default index.html even though I've set up an server block in /sites-available + symlinked
I noticed that your configuration accepts connections for pluix.com but not for www.pluix.com. With the `/etc/apache2/sites-en… -
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ZipArchive extractTo not extraction file on apache php7
When running with mod_php on Apache your php processes will run as the user www-data as Apache itself does. This error would occur… -
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I am using Ubuntu and Nginx findign that 404 errors are going to 500 errors
This question was answered by @landed: This is now fixed, I managed to get some debug by setting the joomla site to show max er…Accepted Answer: This question was answered by @landed: This is now fixed, I managed to get some debug by setting the joomla site to show max er… -
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Local Connections with DigitalOcean Firewall enabled
The cloud firewall should only block connections coming in on your public interface. A local firewall can be used if needed to res…Accepted Answer: The cloud firewall should only block connections coming in on your public interface. A local firewall can be used if needed to res… -
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Droplet is not able to reach over IP/hostname and can't ssh
The web console doesn’t require networking within the droplet since it’s a service provided by the hypervisor. Your droplet sees t… -
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website displayed only one word error
Have you reviewed your log files? Any time you see an error returned by your web browser (as long is it hasn’t been reconfigured n…Accepted Answer: Have you reviewed your log files? Any time you see an error returned by your web browser (as long is it hasn’t been reconfigured n… -
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Reverse Proxy for the internal DNS to an external IP or URL
The example configuration below should do the trick but is pretty basic. A more verbose configuration that addresses some common i… -
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how to lower down memory usage? & delete memory used and cached. 10% storage used equivalent to 72% memory usage and i am only the sole user
The first thing you’ll want to do is to figure out what processes are using the memory on your system. You can view running proces… -
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I'm having an issue with a migration from Magento to Shopify.
Yes it will. Most control panel software requires installation on a clean unmodified operating system in order to be installed and…Accepted Answer: Yes it will. Most control panel software requires installation on a clean unmodified operating system in order to be installed and… -
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does increasing the traffic of a website also increases the memory usage?
More requests to your site means your web server creates more threads to handle those requests. Since each thread will require it’… -
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My site shows upp all distorted and broken when viewing from filezilla! HELP!
There isn’t enough information here to know exactly what happened but here are a couple guesses based on what you shared: When…Accepted Answer: There isn’t enough information here to know exactly what happened but here are a couple guesses based on what you shared: When…