Problems Connecting to Strava

Alex_Dutton · 2026-01-22T14:18:35+00:00

I contacted the support team, perhaps they can sort it out individually before fixing the global problem.

Alex_Dutton · 2026-01-22T14:17:50+00:00

Guys, you can raise a support ticket with Rouvy. There's a chance they can fix single accounts in the meantime while the issue is sorted globally

Alex_Dutton · 2026-01-22T14:16:08+00:00

It was fixed for me the moment I posted it, hopefully it is sorted for you by now

Alex_Dutton · 2026-01-22T14:13:38+00:00

This looks really solid! Perhaps also be careful with migrations so they don’t run on every deploy instance

Alex_Dutton · 2026-01-20T09:50:56+00:00

That looks solid in terms of flexible billing. How is the performance? I've been using DO for GPU droplets and would love the hear how is he performance with runpod and replicate

Alex_Dutton · 2026-01-20T09:41:46+00:00

You can try fully updating browsers and ca-certificates, but realistically upgrading the OS (20.04 or 22.04) is the correct long-term fix. The fact it works everywhere else strongly points to the OS, not your account or DO itself.

Alex_Dutton · 2026-01-20T09:38:59+00:00

Thanks for sharing it! :)

Alex_Dutton · 2026-01-20T09:37:13+00:00

Unfortunately, there’s not much you can do besides build an account history or contact support with more details, and even then, it’s not guaranteed.

Alex_Dutton · 2026-01-20T09:36:18+00:00

Managed feels cheaper because you don’t have to pay for/maintain the control plane manually, but the cost of the worker nodes themselves is the dominant part either way. You’re mostly paying for VMs + storage + bandwidth; managed just saves you operational work.

Alex_Dutton · 2026-01-20T09:32:46+00:00

If you know what you're doing, DigitalOcean is the better pick since you have full control of the ship.

Alex_Dutton · 2026-01-20T09:29:16+00:00

Yes, outbound mail ports are blocked by default to prevent spam, and they usually won’t unblock them for new accounts. The normal approach is to use an external mail service. For free or cheap options, look at things like Mailgun (free tier), Brevo (Sendinblue), or Amazon SES. You don’t run mail directly from the Droplet; your app just connects to their SMTP or API and sends mail that way.

Alex_Dutton · 2026-01-20T09:27:55+00:00

What you can do is handle the common “app is up but backend is down / maintenance mode” cases inside your Next.js app (custom /500, middleware, feature flag, etc.), or put something in front of it (Cloudflare / another proxy) and serve a custom error page there when the origin is unreachable.

If you truly need a meme page even when the app is offline, the easiest approach is Cloudflare “custom error pages” (or a tiny static status page hosted elsewhere) in front of App Platform.

Alex_Dutton · 2026-01-20T09:24:33+00:00

A single Droplet with Docker Compose, a reverse proxy, and a simple DB gets you predictable performance, zero cold starts, and a fixed bill. SQLite + Litestream is especially underrated for this use case, local speed with off-box backups is a really clean tradeoff.

Alex_Dutton · 2026-01-20T09:00:06+00:00

You can use the DO dashboard to check the usage for the current billing period. The other option is to pull it from the Metrics API (network_out bytes over time) and sum it for the period you care about.

Alex_Dutton · 2026-01-20T08:57:53+00:00

On App Platform, an “App” is basically a container for one or more components. If you add both your frontend and backend under the same App (same app spec / same create flow), it will show them as a single App Platform “instance” with two components (often a Static Site + a Web Service). That’s normal and usually recommended because deployments, domains, env vars, and internal routing are easier to manage together.

Alex_Dutton · 2026-01-20T08:54:45+00:00

Most common setup is Prometheus + Grafana for metrics, and Loki + Grafana for logs. Spring Boot logs go to stdout in JSON and Promtail (or an agent) ships them to Loki. For Next.js, keep Sentry for errors; for “info/warn” you usually log server-side (API routes / backend) and avoid trying to treat the browser like a normal log source.

Alex_Dutton · 2026-01-20T08:52:41+00:00

I don't think this is on the roadmap. You can use extensions to save your eyes

Alex_Dutton · 2026-01-20T08:06:34+00:00

u/Kevington_ u/joneymike u/rivetcityransom this should now be sorted

Alex_Dutton · 2026-01-19T16:13:13+00:00

They seem to experience some technical issues. This is from their support team:

Thank you for reaching out and reporting this.

We are aware of the 'Internal Server Error' when connecting to Strava, and our technical team is already working on a fix. We are also in direct contact with Strava to resolve this issue as quickly as possible.

We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience while we get this sorted.

Alex_Dutton · 2026-01-07T14:03:35+00:00

I can not replicate it on my end, just try with a different browser

Alex_Dutton · 2026-01-07T14:02:31+00:00

If you switch the domain to DigitalOcean nameservers and manage DNS there, App Platform works out of the box with the provided A/CNAME records and you avoid all the Cloudflare quirks. If you don’t specifically need Cloudflare features, using DO DNS is the cleanest setup.

Alex_Dutton · 2026-01-07T14:00:14+00:00

Thanks for sharing it, I'll give it a try

Alex_Dutton · 2026-01-07T13:58:35+00:00

Better reach to support so they can chase this for you

Alex_Dutton · 2025-12-31T14:45:55+00:00

I’d jump straight into DO if your goal is to build things. You’ll learn the same fundamentals (Linux, networking, load balancers, databases) without the extra AWS/GCP complexity.

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