Digital Ocean Volume for WordPress Media

Adding Digital Ocean Volume for WordPress Media can be very useful. Especially if you have a lot of images and or other media and need a cheap way to store them. Block Storage at Digital Ocean is fast and easy to work with. It allows you to get a cheap Droplet and add cheap storage. […]

Digital Ocean Monitoring Beta Setup

Just installed Digital Ocean  monitoring beta on one of my Digital Ocean droplets where I have Trellis running for a WordPress client of mine. It is a new way to monitor bandwidth, memory usage and I/O. And also a way to get alerts when your droplet gets hit hard on one of those metrics. Installation […]

Setting up a Trellis Server at Digital Ocean including SendGrid and Google Mail

Here is a the story of setting up a Trellis server at Digital Ocean including SendGrid and Google Mail for a client. I took care of this recently to move him from a shared Dreamhost server (testing ground) to a Trellis LEMP with Digital Ocean using the Bedrock Modern WordPress Stack. This post also includes dealing […]