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Horizontally scaling your Ghost blog on DigitalOcean

Horizontally scaling your Ghost blog on DigitalOcean

Preface I had intended to submit this to DigitalOcean as a post, but the topics they require for their community posts don't fit the content of this post. I do not feel the need to hold onto this content to myself until such times as DO are ready

DigitalOcean Droplet unable to resolve mirror locations?

DigitalOcean Droplet unable to resolve mirror locations?

You've set up a Droplet in DigitalOcean and locked things down to restrict access to it via the firewall. Great. You can access the server and make local changes fine, but you try to update or install something, only to be presented with terminal output similar to: Failed

Configure PHP and Apache on DigitalOcean with Ansible

Configure PHP and Apache on DigitalOcean with Ansible

Setting up a webserver for a PHP site is relatively straightforward for a basic configuration. Install and configure Apache (or nginx), install the relevant PHP modules, add the code and off you go. There's loads of tutorials out there for that. But what happens when you have a