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I currently have a student account with free credits, but I can't create a "Basic - Premium AMD" droplet.

• Will adding manual funds unlock this?
• Do I need to upgrade to Tier 2?
• Or are Premium AMD droplets completely restricted for student accounts?

Thanks

I'm a noob for configuring a linux web server, so I'm working on a checklist - procedue for my new install. I'm just running prompts through google gemini: anything i should add?

create a list of steps to create a digital ocean droplet with insights, https, nginx.

in nginx what is the difference between virtual subdirectory and subdomain?

how to configure nginx subdomain in digital ocean droplet?

how are my .jpg files cached in nginx website on a digital ocean droplet?

are there opensource tools to install in my digitalocean droplet nginx server to monitor web traffic?

how to configure Prometheus & Grafana Monitoring for for my nginx digital ocean droplet website?

**EDIT-POST**

Quick update after a day of debugging my WireGuard relay setup.

Topology:

Kali VM
|
WireGuard
|
VPS relay (x.x.x.x)
|
Remote UniFi LAN (10.x.x.x/24)

Progress since yesterday:
- wg0 now comes UP correctly on both Kali and VPS
- VPS ↔ UniFi tunnel works with active handshakes
- Rebuilt all private/public keys and PSKs from scratch
- Fixed multiple config mismatches
- Added proper AllowedIPs/routes
- Enabled IP forwarding
- tcpdump confirms UDP packets from Kali ARE reaching the VPS on port 51820
- MASQUERADE/FORWARD rules added successfully

Current issue:
Kali still shows:

transfer: 0 B received

and VPS still never shows a handshake specifically for the Kali peer.

The last troubleshooting steps I tried before getting stuck were:

sudo iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 10.x.x.x/24 -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE

sudo iptables -A FORWARD -i wg0 -j ACCEPT

sudo iptables -A FORWARD -o wg0 -j ACCEPT

sudo systemctl restart wg-quick@wg0

Those commands applied successfully but the issue remains.

At this point I still feel like I’m missing some deeper understanding of the WireGuard handshake/routing flow itself.

Any ideas what I should inspect next?

Thanks!

*old post*
Hey guys,
I’ve been banging my head against the wall for the past few days trying to troubleshoot a Layer 2 VXLAN tunnel, and I'm officially stuck.
The goal is to bridge my home lab with a remote DigitalOcean VPS so end-devices on both sides can talk on the same L2 broadcast domain (10.100.102.x).

The Setup:
• Home Side: Tossed my ISP router into stupid Bridge Mode, letting a UniFi Cloud Gateway Ultra handle the public IP. Behind it, I am running Kali Linux inside VMware Workstation, completely isolated so it only communicates within my specific lab environment.
• Cloud Side: Ubuntu VPS on DigitalOcean.
• The Underlay: Set up a stable WireGuard tunnel between the Kali VM and the DO VPS over UDP port 51820. The VPN itself is rock solid and I can route traffic between the host and VPS perfectly.
• The Overlay: On top of WireGuard, I built a vxlan30 interface (VNI 30, UDP 4789) and enslaved it to a local bridge on both sides. The interface status is officially UP.

The Problem:
Even though the tunnel says it's active, I have zero data plane connectivity:
• The weird part: I can successfully ping the remote WireGuard IP address and the VPS itself from the host. The underlay network is 100% alive.
• However, pings between the actual end-devices (like trying to hit .1 over the VXLAN subnet) completely time out.
• Running arp -a or ip neigh just gives me Incomplete or Failed. It looks like ARP broadcasts are disappearing into the void and not traversing the tunnel.
• The Bridge FDB isn't learning any remote MAC addresses.

I can't login to my account because it is not sending the 2FA verification email. This appears to be a common problem. May be time to migrate out of DO. Ticket #12227092.

Just signed up for a new account today and my balance is showing **$**5.

Is the offer still active or did I miss a step during signup?

I’m no longer getting the 2FA emails from DO. My email account is working fine and nothing in junk / spam.

I filled in the support ticket yesterday but only had automated replies.

Has anyone else got this issue ? Is there another way to sign in to the web platform ?

Thanks

Tried to setup 2FA for my "team".

SMS doesn't work outside of USA phone numbers.

Authenticator QR codes doesn't work on any of the five Authenticator apps I've tried. No code is displayed or copyable to do manual input.

Tried to do sign in by way of Google and git. DO claims my password is incorrect, but it's correct. I reset the pwd a few times to be sure.

I even tried to get a friend in USA to help me with getting a SMS in to his USA number, the code never arrives.

At this point I can't so anything in my control panel and can't get around the issue.

Has anyone had this issue? Pulling my hair out.