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I would highly not recommend doing this as restarting a system does not fix issues. If your system randomly hangs, fix the issue ve…
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You need to scale your setup. 4 Wordpress sites it quite a lot for a droplet that size. Try caching your sites to reduce Wordpress …
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To answer your first two questions, make sure your server name in your Nginx configuration is set to your domain (abc.com) and not …
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To answer your first two questions, make sure your server name in your Nginx configuration is set to your domain (abc.com) and not …
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Depending how much your bill was, they won’t bill you until it is large enough. Contact support regardless for payment/bill questio…
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Depending on the load of the droplet and if you have the database on the same system could be where your issue comes from. You may …
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Depending on the load of the droplet and if you have the database on the same system could be where your issue comes from. You may …
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With any VPN, you can expect more latency, unreliability, and slower speeds since you are adding more hops for your connection to t…
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If I recall correctly, OpenVPN cannot act as an HTTP proxy but it can use them. OpenVPN is what the name implies, a VPN. Assuming t…
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There is a great tutorial for redirecting www to non-www on DigitalOcean right here: [How To Redirect www to Non-www with Apache on…
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Could’ve been a hiccup on Ubuntu’s mirror. I was able to connect just fine while leaving this comment. If it keeps failing, update …
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Yep! You can pretty much deploy anything on DigitalOcean since it is a VPS. It acts pretty much like a dedicated server except just…
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Spam is a large issue that is never solve using one solution. I too use Wordfence on my WordPress site but that isn’t a major spam …
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I don’t think they do. Contact them though. I hope you’re planning on using the block storage beta as you are restricted to the cur…
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No, and the reason for this is security. They are a server host meaning all your data is behind that one login. Because of this, th…
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A bash script to mass change your droplet's kernel using DOCTL.
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Depending on how complex your queries are, how many queries you’re making, and how much load, MySQL will start to use more and more…
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It is very bad to open MySQL (or any database for that matter) to the internet. You should turn back on the firewall to block all p…
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Alright, so permissions of 701 is very weird. By default in Linux systems, file permissions are 644 and directories 755. But …
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So what it looks like is you never added a user/database for phpMyAdmin to use. When you install phpMyAdmin, there is a file in the…
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Resetting the root login password shouldn’t affect anything. So I assume something didn’t startup when DigitalOcean rebooted your d…
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To simplify, if you need remote database access, you should use a VPN. There are several types. I recommend [Tinc](http://tinc-vpn....
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