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 Lakshmi Vijayakumar | Dec 17, 2018 | DigitalOcean, Server Administration
Server attacks become complex day by day. That’s why, Droplet owners use stringent security measures. But, there are scenarios where they need to whitelist trusted IP addresses to bypass these security restrictions. That’s why, we often receive requests...
by Lakshmi Vijayakumar | Dec 16, 2018 | DigitalOcean, Server Administration
Snapshots are reliable fail-back points for DigitalOcean Droplet owners. Server owners create DigitalOcean Droplets from snapshots when there is an unexpected server crash, to create a Droplet in another location, etc. But, how to make sure that this process goes off...
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...
by Sijin George | Dec 14, 2018 | DigitalOcean, Nginx, Server Administration
Nginx is one of the popular web servers used in DigitalOcean Droplets. Unfortunately, server owners often see Nginx errors when it cannot bind to the correct port of the server. One such error is “Nginx: [emerg] bind() to failed (98: Address already in...
