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Custom droplet limits were reset
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Custom droplet limits were reset

We had increased number of droplets to ~300 for over a year now. Woke up to some jobs failing because limits were reset to 100.

No communication from DO whatsoever.

And surprise surprise - there is a new "fast" way of increasing the limits by "prepaying"? Is DO in financial trouble?

I am already on Tier 5 so I just field a ticket and now our team has to figure out how to migrate our workload to AWS.

Did this happen to anyone else?

Update 1: Awesome DO engineering manager fixed the issue and put the limits back

Update 2: Woke up to the limits for droplets being reset back to 100. I cannot even file another increase limit ticket because "You already have a pending request for this resource.".

u/HexLayer3 — 2 days ago
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Can't even use a email relay server for my app

How am I supposed to use a email relay service if 587 and 465 are blocked. I was using a email relay provider earlier this month and now my app cannot talk to the email server anymore over 587. This is ridiculous I get wanting to block running an email server but just block port 25 like everyone else....

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u/snow99as — 3 days ago
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What to study

I am a Btech Ece final year student and companies are coming for placements.I am aiming for digital domain.But only few companies came for digital domain should I change my domain or should I learn more in digital domain.I know the basics like flip flops,verilog and systemverilog(basics) and sta(basics).I have done uart+RiscV project and also a uvm uart project.What should I do next.I NEED HELP

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u/Nobody_7777657 — 4 days ago
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Got tired of checking the DigitalOcean dashboard on my phone, so I made this

I mainly wanted a simple way to answer:

“Is my Droplet okay?”

“Why is CPU usage suddenly high?”

“How much am I spending this month?”

So I made Ocean Dashboard, a native iPhone/iPad app for DigitalOcean.

You can check Droplets, monitoring metrics, alert policies, uptime checks, invoices, and billing trends. I also added Home Screen widgets because sometimes I just want to glance at the status without opening anything.

It uses your DigitalOcean API token and stores it in Keychain.

The basic version is free. Pro is a one-time purchase rather than another subscription.

If anyone here uses DigitalOcean regularly, I’d really appreciate honest feedback — especially about what you normally need to check from your phone.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/oceandashboard/id6754645272

I made the app, so feel free to ask me anything about it.

u/Guanghui_Liang — 6 days ago
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When does DigitalOcean Kubernetes make sense for a small startup?

For a small team, the first question probably isn’t which node size to choose. It’s what operational problem Kubernetes solves today.

If the product is one API, one worker, and a database, a Droplet or App Platform may be easier to operate. DOKS becomes more interesting when services need independent deployments, controlled rollouts, workload isolation, or autoscaling—and the team is ready to own manifests, ingress, monitoring, upgrades, and recovery.

If I started with DOKS, I’d keep it boring: one region, a managed database outside the cluster, resource requests and limits, multiple replicas for important workloads, automatic upgrades, and backups with a tested restore process. No service mesh or complicated platform layer at the beginning.

For small teams already using DOKS: what concrete problem made Kubernetes worth the additional operational work?

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u/UkrMalt — 7 days ago
▲ 28 r/digital_ocean+7 crossposts

LX Family Planner — a self-hosted family OS for calendars, tasks, meals, chat and kid profiles

Hi everyone 👋

I've been working on LX Family Planner — a self-hosted family organizer that bundles the stuff families actually need into one app, instead of spreading it across five. It runs on Docker / Unraid / Umbrel / Proxmox / plain Node.js, MIT-licensed.

What it does:

  • 📅 Shared calendars with reminders
  • ✅ Tasks & chores with approval workflow for kids
  • 🛒 Shopping lists (incl. Bring! integration)
  • 🍝 Meal planning & recipes
  • 💬 Family chat with optional guest invites
  • 📁 Family files / media
  • 👶 Child profiles with playful missions & rewards
  • 🐾 Pet profiles (care & health only)
  • 🔔 Notifications via Gotify / ntfy
  • 🌐 DE + EN interface, Android app available

Why self-hosted: All data stays on your own server. Adults get a calm planning workspace, parents keep control over approvals/integrations, and there's role-based access so kids see what they should see.

Integrations: Nextcloud, Home Assistant, Bring!, Gotify, ntfy

Links:

Quick start (Docker):

yaml

services:
  lx-family-planner:
    image: ghcr.io/laxxx-lab/lx-family-planner:latest
    ports:
      - "3001:3001"
    environment:
      - APP_SECRET=<32+ random chars, keep stable across updates>
      - REGISTRATION_MODE=first-family
    volumes:
      - ./data:/app/data
      - ./backups:/app/backups
    restart: unless-stopped

I'd love feedback — especially from anyone running a family setup on a homeserver. What's missing for your use case?

Thanks for checking it out! 🙌

u/Odd-Enthusiasm8582 — 9 days ago
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The Attack from Within

I created an aggregator for brute force login attacks across a number of websites I own. As the site approaches two years, the leaderboard is dominated by Digital Ocean IP addresses. If you have a single IP address with over 100K attacks being issued from it, you'd think a circuit breaker would trip somewhere in the monitoring stack.

The Irony? Each of the sites reporting they were being brute forced are ALSO hosted on Digital Ocean Droplets!! The firewall rules of the attacked droplets only allow port 443 access through CloudFlare meaning this is not happening on internal IP addresses. Hence, the title of this post The Attack from Within!

Data published on https://bruteforce.live

https://bruteforce.live

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u/dericksc — 8 days ago
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Anyone have a few moments? New to Digital Ocean:

I am looking into where the best pla e to start my first day, first class, first try on a vpn or server to route all my traffic through a server on digital ocean. Also looking for info on best practices, easy setup for idiors and any suggestions or anything from people who know a lot more in this and other subjects of the lime than I do. Appreciate it. In advance. Thanks.

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u/midget_guru — 12 days ago
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DigitalOcean incident affecting new accounts, Droplets, Reserved IPs, snapshots and DOKS

DigitalOcean's status page says it has identified the root cause of an incident affecting multiple regions.

Reported impact includes:

- new account and Droplet creation

- Reserved IP allocation

- automated backups and snapshots

- Droplet Autoscale and DOKS operations

- GenAI services and the Droplet console

- database clusters stuck in a ‘Creating’ state

The latest official update was at 20:02 UTC and says a fix is being implemented.

Official incident: https://status.digitalocean.com/incidents/2wql4f4sb13r

Normalized live timeline: https://outagedeck.com/incidents/digitalocean-account-registration-droplets-and-related-services-2026-08-08?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=incident_update&utm_campaign=digitalocean_aug8_outage

Disclosure: I'm the OutageDeck Founder. The second link mirrors DigitalOcean's official provider signal; it is not independent confirmation. Check the systems you actually run with your own probes too.

u/Nervous-Honey-2695 — 11 days ago