Paul Norman
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Please help me getting account activated.
Expect a wait time of around 3 days and then its likely you will get a scripted response. If your account was “Account locked” upon… -
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I decided to stop using DigitalOcean after 3 years of using it
While I agree that DO has poor support but if Gmail is blocking by “range of IP” instead of individual IP’s then it is only a matte… -
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Anyone using Digital Ocean Droplets? What's your experience with them?
The only downside to DigitalOcean is support. Never had to open a ticket myself but apparently it takes days before they respond an… -
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Help with basic mysqld.cnf configurations.
Same as you - 2cpu / 2GB ram. While its recommended not to use swap on ssd’s I do have swap enabled: Filename Type Size Used… -
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Help with basic mysqld.cnf configurations.
This is mine: For advice on how to change settings please see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/server-configuration-d… -
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Help with basic mysqld.cnf configurations.
Use this to work out the correct values for your server: https://www.mysqlcalculator.com -
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How long Digital take to answer ticket
Who knows… Sadly DO don’t offer great support and it can take a good two or three days to get any type of reply to a support tick… -
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Why the droplet shows as Dangerous?
Yea I see the warning in both Safari and Chrome too… https://prnt.sc/oayzbo https://prnt.sc/oaz043 -
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Looking to hire someone to fix my Apache Configuration Issues (SHOULD BE A QUICK FIX)
I have seen this before… Check that your server is setup to allow both IPV4 and IPV6. In my clients case, his mobile was assig… -
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Payments via PayPal
Hi, I have been using DO for the past 2 years without issue. I have always made PayPal payments in advance via my business PayPal account but I was wondering... I also have a personal PayPal account, can I use both to... -
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Website admin fired, me taking over but really confused.
I posted the link to login as the joomla administrator but digital ocean removed it as spam. Simply add /admin to the domain. -
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Is bandwidth upload and download?
Yes it does. -
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Beware the new Pooled Transfer Billing
That’s not good! Have you opened a support ticket with DO? Let us know what they say. -
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If SSH keys are set, will reseting root pasword help to log in to server?
Yes but you have to type the password in because copy and paste will result in a wrong password error! Had to do the same thing mys… -
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Boot Failure After Resize
Have you tried running fsck? Support will probably make you wait a good 24 hours and reply telling you to run the above… -
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I was never able to see the Memory Top Processes in the DO control panel, am I the only one?
Doesn’t work for me at present either. It’s very temperamental! Only thing that works for me right now is CPU usage. -
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Does Digital Ocean Have Support?
@Woet why do you keep going on about users not paying enough to justify SLA? The OP asked if DO provided support and nothing about … -
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Can't figure out how to install php-gd for PHP7 with yum
I have it installed on my centos 7 droplet, currently running php 7.1.5 Package name is php71w-gd I’m using the Webtatic repo…