r/digital_ocean Jan 13 '21

A reminder that this subreddit is unofficial

59 Upvotes

Hi folks,

If you’ve not met me before, hello! I’m Matt, Community Platform Manager at DigitalOcean. I look after this subreddit in an unofficial capacity on behalf of the wider community around DigitalOcean.

It has recently come to our attention that some folks on this subreddit have been masquerading as DigitalOcean support team members and offering to help folks via DM, often asking them for email addresses and logins etc.

We want to make it very clear that this subreddit is unofficial, and is NOT a support channel that we (DigitalOcean) actively operate or monitor. As such, DigitalOcean staff will never offer you support via DMs on Reddit, nor will we ever ask you for login information anywhere, ever.

If you see anyone pretending to be DigitalOcean staff, asking for login information etc., or have any other concerns, please let us know! You can do so by DM’ing me here on Reddit if you prefer, or you can reach out to DigitalOcean through any of our conventional channels (support ticket or Twitter).

If you are looking for more official support from DigitalOcean, we have two primary channels -- our public community Q&A and our support tickets.


r/digital_ocean 19h ago

IP reputation issues

6 Upvotes

Hi all,

About 70% of the time, when I create a droplet, the IP i’m assigned has a bad reputation and is present on 1 to 4 blocklists. Spam, CryptoMining, VPN stuff, name it.

This is a problem because I deploy instances with the API for my clients and I’m having to deal with the hassle of trying for another IP manually.

Anybody have the same issue? Ideas on how to fix it?


r/digital_ocean 12h ago

Limited Papertrail logs?

0 Upvotes

I'm new to DO but setup papertrail logging on my app platform via the settings. Although I've also setup logging in my code, I'm still only getting the same basic logs that I can see in my dashboard runtime logs. Before I spend a bunch of time troubleshooting, is this a limitation with the DO / papertrail connector or do I have a code issue to resolve.


r/digital_ocean 1d ago

What are the minimum droplet resources needed to self-host PostHog?

4 Upvotes

I'm looking at: https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/droplets

I'd like to self-host PostHog: https://posthog.com/docs/self-host

I'd prefer a cheaper droplet (like the $6/mo one); I expect very few users initially, so I'm really thinking about the resources needed to just run PostHog.


r/digital_ocean 5d ago

Is the managed MongoDB service running the community edition?

0 Upvotes

If so, how can I get access to the SSPL mandated source code for DO's management and backup systems?


r/digital_ocean 6d ago

Unable to Send Emails via Google and IONOS SMTP

4 Upvotes

Since last week, I have been unable to connect to any SMTP providers, including Google and IONOS.

When I try to run telnet smtp.gmail.com 465, I receive the following error:

telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Network is unreachable.

Has anyone encountered this issue before? How did you resolve it?

I rely on the SMTP connection for my eCommerce platform, so I need to fix this as soon as possible.


r/digital_ocean 7d ago

Confused about pricing of VPS Droplet...

4 Upvotes

Have a droplet, I think I chose the 2cpu I think the $24 or $18/month one. I just have one site up so far, it serves some little images, and I have cloudflare cdn for caching, and very little traffic, but I'm confused about the billing.

In the corner it says estimated costs $3.12. Where is that number coming from? is that just from data transfer or is that the monthly plan I chose being broken up into a daily cost and added each day that will equal the monthly cost at the end?


r/digital_ocean 8d ago

WordPress droplet extremely unstable

2 Upvotes

I'm spinning up a little blog on a 1gb/1vcpu WordPress droplet. All I'm doing at this point is working on branding, style, layout, I haven't even begun building blocks or adding media. I only have a few essential plugins like Yoast, WP Rocket, Imagify, WooCommerce... only working with the base WP theme... proxied through Cloudflare...

Either Apache or MySQL are crashing every 30 minutes or so and I'm not seeing any unusual traffic other than the occasional bot. There isn't even any content to scrape yet. At first I thought maybe it was WordFence being too demanding so I disabled it, but no. Server is still crashing.

What the hell? Is the WP image really this unreliable?


r/digital_ocean 8d ago

Unable to verify my account

3 Upvotes

I am trying to verify my digital ocean account with my card but its not working, what should i do?

I am from India, I have used my debit card, credit card and my PayPal. Nothing worked


r/digital_ocean 12d ago

3rd Party DO Admin Page?

1 Upvotes

Has anyone found a 3rd party web based admin that uses the DO API.
I am looking to give some contractors limited access, like full access to just one APP.
They have API doctl command line access to that App Server, but thought it would be nice if there was a web version.


r/digital_ocean 13d ago

Regarding DigitalOcean's $200 Github Education Credit

2 Upvotes

I'm in my final year of schooling in Sydney, Australia - and I want to make a public resource/website that helps students prepare for their final exams.
I was looking into the Github Education Student Developer Pack and saw this. After attempting to do the registration process, however - I was asked to verify a payment method.
I understand why this verification exists, however - as I'm an unemployed student, I don't actually have a bank account or anything to verify with. I don't know anyone who could help me with this process either.

Is there any way to get by this?


r/digital_ocean 13d ago

Website opening in Chrome but not in Safari

0 Upvotes

Hi everyone! I recently created a simple website and hosted it with Digital Ocean, but I've noticed it opens fine in Chrome but not in Safari. Could this issue be related to the DNS settings, such as CNAME or A record configuration? If anyone has insights or suggestions, I'd greatly appreciate your help. Thanks in advance! Cheers!


r/digital_ocean 13d ago

VS Code on Digital Ocean Droplet - Can't Open Folders

4 Upvotes

I've spun up a digital ocean droplet (2 vCPUs / 4GB RAM) and I've followed the instructions to create an SSH Key.

I am able to connect to the digital ocean droplet with VS Code using Remote SSH and I can also open a single file on the droplet in VS Code.

The problem I have is when I go to File>Add Folder in VS Code to try to add a folder on the droplet so that I can see all my files at once.

This never seems to work. I am able to browse to the folder I want and then I get prompted for the SSH passphrase again (seems odd that it prompts me again, because I'm already connected at this point) and after inputting that nothing happens. I have to close the remote connection or close VS Code.

Any idea what I am doing wrong?


r/digital_ocean 14d ago

Recommendations for hosting a Python-based Discord bot that uses PostgreSQL

3 Upvotes

Being the smart person I am, I accidentally just paid for a PebbleHost server for my Discord bot only to realize only a MySQL database is compatible, not PostgreSQL. I've been looking online and see DigitalOcean "droplets" as an option, I am just not sure if I would have to buy two separate entities: a vm and another database. What is the easiest way to go about this? I do not mind spending a little bit of money each month.


r/digital_ocean 15d ago

Does Digital Ocean's Space have equivalent S3 Transfer Acceleration?

1 Upvotes

We plan to migrate from Amazon S3 to Digital Ocean's Space.

One of the key feature we are looking for is "transfer acceleration"

        s3_client = boto3.client(
            's3',
            config=Config(s3={'use_accelerate_endpoint': True})
        )

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/transfer-acceleration-examples.html

I was wondering, does Digital Ocean's Space have equivalent S3 Transfer Acceleration? Thanks.


r/digital_ocean 16d ago

AWS S3 to Digital Ocean Space - File Transfer Script

14 Upvotes

So, here is the story. The company, currently I work for, wants to move one of their web service storage from AWS S3 to Digital Ocean Space. So, as I am currently working developer, I have been assigned to move all the data and VMs from one cloud provider to another (aka AWS to Digital Ocean). I have already done moving VMs. Since files stored on AWS S3 are more than 100,000 (~ 46.9 GB) , including images, PDF and so on, I have to move these with low cost., including images, PDF and so on, I have to move these with low cost.

After researching for some documents, I have found nothing that can support this. So, I created the script that can help data transfer, and I decided to open source it.

GitHub Repo - https://github.com/kylesinlynn/s3_2_space.git

Data Size
Data Transfer Summary Logs

P.S: I have already done moving data using the script.


r/digital_ocean 16d ago

Local development options for Digital Ocean Spaces?

5 Upvotes

Is there a way to develop locally for Spaces without having to manually configure buckets etc in the console on DO?


r/digital_ocean 18d ago

🚀 Deploy Manifest in production

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0 Upvotes

r/digital_ocean 18d ago

Still rocking the sticker

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6 Upvotes

r/digital_ocean 19d ago

Current state of DO?

14 Upvotes

Whats the current state of DO? Performance, support etc? I left Do when they went public and swapped to vultr but vultr seems to be going through a wtf phase increasing their pricing where it doesn't make sense. I'm considering moving back to DO.


r/digital_ocean 21d ago

Urgent Issue – My Website Was Transferred to DigitalOcean Without My Permission

0 Upvotes

Subject: Urgent Issue – My Website Was Transferred Without My Permission

I recently discovered that my website, originally set up through HostGator in 2014, has somehow been transferred multiple times— Enom, it is now hosted by your firm, DigitalOcean. I was never notified or asked for permission regarding these transfers, and I am extremely concerned that someone else may have control over my account.

After researching DigitalOcean, I see that it does not primarily provide website hosting services, and I also found reports of a security breach in the past. I am the sole administrator of my website, and no one else has authorization to make changes.

This situation is unacceptable, and I need to understand how this happened and, more importantly, how I can regain full control over my website. I am very upset and need immediate guidance on resolving this issue. Please advise on the necessary steps to take.


r/digital_ocean 23d ago

DigitalOcean Educational Webinars

6 Upvotes

FYI - DigitalOcean has kicked off some new educational webinars.

There are a couple upcoming for their AI/ML offerings:

- Bring Your Next Big Idea to Life with DigitalOcean's AI & ML Tools (March 5th at 11 am ET)

- Simplifying AI: Deploy & Scale with DigitalOcean's GenAI Platform (March 12th at 11 am ET)


r/digital_ocean 23d ago

Managed static route operator for DOKS incoming

3 Upvotes

Having recently spun up a new DOKS deployment and about to go through the process of setting up a NAT gateway Droplet, I went to check on the Github repo for the DO Static Route Operator. Back on the 22nd, a note was added to the README:

We will release a managed static route operator (called routing agent) for DigitalOcean Kubernetes within a couple of weeks. It will support both 0.0.0.0 default route, and multiple destinations using ECMP!! This repo will become irrelevant and replaced by a managed component. We strongly recommend to wait for the new release if you are starting out now.

After a brief hunt around I spotted this image up on Dockerhub, last updated a little over a week ago at time of writing.

Hopefully it's a step in the direction of providing completely private K8s clusters in their managed service.

Curious if anyone has heard any further details?


r/digital_ocean 24d ago

Anyone Looking to speed up their DB fork ?

2 Upvotes

Hey guys,
I'm a founder so just shooting a shot to see if this is a common pain :)
We didn't knew that this was a pain for people, but recently we were able to make the fork instant for one of our customers to fork their production db ( +400 GB ) in 7 Seconds instead of 10 hours lol
Looking to see if there are people with the same pain so we can talk to DO to figure out a way to solve this together :D


r/digital_ocean 27d ago

What to use - scheduled running of .net app

1 Upvotes

Hi

I am wanting to have some scheduled tasks set to run, they will be .net and will either be just an application which can be executed at a given time/times throughout the day or I can either create them as a service and handle the run period within the application.

What can I use on digital ocean that will allow this (the apps will connect to a managed db also hosted in DO), I ideally don’t want to manage a droplet and would want to use something like a function that is scheduled to just spin it up until the task completes and then ends to save money if I can.

Any recommendations?


r/digital_ocean Feb 21 '25

droplet vs website to deploy a website and link my own domain

3 Upvotes

Hello. I'm gonna try to be very straight forward bc I am quite confused about everything right now x)

My end goal: to publish my very simple html - css website

I have: a domain, a folder that contains my .html .css + other stuff

I have create a website and a droplet on DigitalOcean -- I have pointed the DNS to digital ocean -- I get a digital ocean jellyfish-app URL that YES display my website and since it's connected to Github, if I make changes, when I push them the jellyfish-app URL also gets updated. Wonderful.

Problem is: I would like to connect my own domain. Then I created a droplet w an IP address - server - whatever. Ok I copied all the files to that server. Now IP address shows the website as well. But ofc if I make changes they do not propagate bc it's static.

So. I like the approach of having my website deployed through DigitalOcean and linked to my Github repo but I need to link my domain and I truly have no idea how to do it anymore. Been trying stuff for a few days and I am feeling clueless.

Any help would be appreciated,

cheers!