by Sijin George | Dec 20, 2018 | DigitalOcean, MySQL
There can be times when you need to connect to the database from outside your office network. And, for this to work, we need to enable remote MySQL connection in your DigitalOcean Droplet. However, due to security risks, web hosts restrict this remote access only to...
by Sijin George | Dec 19, 2018 | DigitalOcean
Hosting applications like Tomcat, Jenkins, etc. will require your DigitalOcean Droplet to allow connections on port 8080. This requires Droplet firewall modification. At times, even after changes in firewall, the application can fail due to improper firewall set up....
by Sijin George | Dec 18, 2018 | DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean Droplet owners often need to change PHP version on their servers to support custom web applications. This PHP change involves many configuration changes in web server too. And, any faulty step in this PHP change process can affect the working of all...
by Sijin George | Dec 17, 2018 | DigitalOcean, Server Administration
With the popularity of the new set of IPv6, it has become a necessity to support them in most of the web applications. And, for this to work, we need to enable IPv6 in DigitalOcean Droplets too. Unfortunately, any bad step while enabling IPv6 can affect the server...
by Sijin George | Dec 15, 2018 | DigitalOcean
Cloud providers like DigitalOcean, AWS, etc. allow shell access which makes things easier for server owners. But, what if you cannot access the server via shell? Here comes the use of “Console Access” that allows direct access to the Droplet. “Server...
