Backing up important data is an essential part of managing any computer infrastructure. In this tutorial, we will build a script around the s3cmd command line tool which can be used to quickly upload data to DigitalOc...

Block Storage allows you to manage additional storage for your DigitalOcean Droplets similar to hard drives. In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to use doctl to create, list, attach, detach, and delete block storage vo...

Spaces is Digitalocean's object storage solution. Because of its high availability and persistence over time, Spaces is a great destination for storing backups of many kinds including digital assets, documents and als...

In this tutorial, we will demonstrate how to use DigitalOcean API to horizontally scale your server setup. To do this, we will use DOProxy, a relatively simple Ruby script that, once configured, provides a command lin...

Heartbeat is an open source program that provides cluster infrastructure capabilities—cluster membership and messaging—to client servers, which is a critical component in a high availability (HA) server infrastructure...