Hubert Nguyen
Former video-games engineer turned media publisher. I co-founded Ubergizmo, a popular tech media website. Technical advisor and code-mentor.
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When would you use Backups instead of Snapshots?
(server) backups are a form of snapshots. The main difference is that DO has rolling “backups” so you don’t need to worry about ser… -
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Cross Region High Availability
Adding a reply to comment and follow this topic. I noticed that problem and from what I remember, pretty much all DO datacenters in… -
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Load balancing between servers in different regions mainly for high availability
That said, if you can replicate the DB across datacenters, you can use DNS-based load-balancing and failover. You could also use a … -
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Can we resize a standard Droplet to a High CPU Droplet?
Just noticed that, and DigitalOcean could have an error message other than “Something wrong happened”… -
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Default wait_timeout set to 8 hours?!!!
I haven’t seen this specific setting, but after testing the managed database, I strongly recommended to DO to let us change some se… -
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Will my DO droplet cache my website files?
@jakemeah how did you configure your web server? the Droplet comes blank by default, and even LAMP isn’t installed, so we need more… -
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Managed Database or Droplet?
It depends on how much time/energy you want to dedicate to maintain/update/backup your DB server. If you’d rather focus on somethin…Accepted Answer: It depends on how much time/energy you want to dedicate to maintain/update/backup your DB server. If you’d rather focus on somethin… -
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How to debug DO managed DB throughput/latency spikes?
Unfortunately, there are very limited profiling and debugging information available on managed DB. Unlike AWS RDS/Aurora, you canno… -
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Best method to sync Managed MySQL to MySQL on a Droplet
Unfortunately, the managed DBs won’t have any such access or options. If we could change basic settings such as key buffers etc, we…Accepted Answer: Unfortunately, the managed DBs won’t have any such access or options. If we could change basic settings such as key buffers etc, we… -
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Which SQL mode values to use for WordPress?
businessbcbdbe0eab0de5765a, thanks for the update. Much appreciated ^^ -
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Tableau is unable to connect to Digital Ocean Managed Database
Are you trying to connect via PHP? Also with the private or public IP? -
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Which SQL mode values to use for WordPress?
Oh yes! That’s right, I forgot about this. You have to change the auth method as your link says. -
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Which SQL mode values to use for WordPress?
DO managed DBs do work with WP, I ran many tests with them. You might bump into a couple of issues: In the DO GUI DB settings, y…Accepted Answer: DO managed DBs do work with WP, I ran many tests with them. You might bump into a couple of issues: In the DO GUI DB settings, y… -
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I'm trying to use a managed database but without success.
Can you recreate a db with utf8, re import and try again? Other fixes usually have to do with mysql config, but you don’t have a… -
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Require more details regarding Managed MySQL services
So I spun a few Managed databases (1/2/4 GB RAM) to run some tests in the context of Wordpress, and noticed that it is currently no… -
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Private connection to Managed DB not working from within same region droplet.
I’m having the same issue… solution is to use the public IP for now :/ -
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How to change MySQL mode permanently in MySQL Managed Database?
It would be nice if DO could make it tweakable so we don’t need to create a ticket for this every time we spin a new Managed DB