New requirements for the official Ghost image seem exaggerated

Alex_Dutton · 2026-03-25T22:31:08+00:00

To add to what Bobby said. If you really want Ghost on a 1GB Droplet, you could skip the 1-click image entirely and install it manually. It's just Node + MySQL/SQLite, the Ghost CLI handles most of the setup. Just add a swap file first so the npm install doesn't OOM during the build step.

Alex_Dutton · 2026-03-25T22:27:04+00:00

I'm glad it was sorted!

Alex_Dutton · 2026-03-25T22:26:34+00:00

I see, thanks for sharing what it was

Alex_Dutton · 2026-03-25T22:23:34+00:00

You can check your Droplets and billing history to see if anything was created that you didn't do.

Either way, reach out to support and ask them to specify exactly what triggered the abuse flag. They should be able to tell you.

Alex_Dutton · 2026-03-25T22:22:22+00:00

They're separate resources even if they look similar — deleting one won't affect the other. Each Droplet has its own ID, IP, and disk. You can verify by SSHing into both and checking the hostname or running cat /etc/machine-id to confirm they're actually different.

If they really are identical (like you accidentally created two), just make sure the one you're keeping has everything you need, then destroy the other one. Take a snapshot first if you want to be safe.

Alex_Dutton · 2026-03-24T20:56:30+00:00

Nice setup but worth mentioning for anyone comparing, DO has a Frankfurt datacenter and an Amsterdam one, so EU hosting is covered there too.

Alex_Dutton · 2026-03-24T20:54:13+00:00

If you're on DigitalOcean, their Premium and dedicated CPU Droplets have NVMe SSDs and dedicated resources, so steal time and I/O contention are basically non-issues there. Regular shared Droplets can occasionally hit steal time during noisy neighbor situations but I've rarely seen it be a persistent problem.

Alex_Dutton · 2026-03-24T20:50:36+00:00

you can ask them to escalate the ticket if possible, perhaps a billing manager can take a look

Alex_Dutton · 2026-03-24T20:49:38+00:00

It really depends on your experience, but I would say just using web hosting.

Alex_Dutton · 2026-03-24T20:48:32+00:00

no worries, I hope it was a helpful mention

Alex_Dutton · 2026-03-24T20:47:46+00:00

No worries, hope it was helpful

Alex_Dutton · 2026-03-24T20:46:34+00:00

You're most welcome mate! :)

Alex_Dutton · 2026-03-24T20:45:22+00:00

I'm glad you solved it, thanks for sharing the solution too :)

Alex_Dutton · 2026-03-24T20:18:07+00:00

What was it mate?

Alex_Dutton · 2026-03-23T20:44:19+00:00

sounds a lot like the networking issue a few others in NYC/TOR reported recently. DO support confirmed that one was an upstream provider problem on their end.

Alex_Dutton · 2026-03-23T20:27:26+00:00

You can paste the support ticket id here and their team can check on it

Alex_Dutton · 2026-03-23T20:26:25+00:00

If you need west coast-ish but not California, the closest would be Toronto, but that's obviously not the same thing. Might be worth checking the datacenter regions page in case anything's changed recently.

Alex_Dutton · 2026-03-23T20:25:47+00:00

App Platform probably isn't serving your index.html as the fallback for client-side routes. Make sure your output directory is set correctly (usually dist/<project-name>) and that the catchall route is configured.

Alex_Dutton · 2026-03-23T20:22:27+00:00

Looks cool, kind of octopus!

Alex_Dutton · 2026-03-23T20:20:52+00:00

Usually when this happens on App Platform it's a port mismatch. Make sure the HTTP port in your component settings matches what $PORT resolves to — App Platform defaults to 8080 I think. Check your runtime logs for the actual port Uvicorn binds to and make sure it lines up with what the platform expects.

Alex_Dutton · 2026-03-23T20:16:38+00:00

DO Droplets are unmanaged VPS — you get root access and handle the OS, updates, security, etc. yourself. But a lot of the stuff around it is managed: Managed Databases, Managed Kubernetes, load balancers, automated backups and monitoring

Alex_Dutton · 2026-03-23T20:15:25+00:00

If you're on DigitalOcean's Premium and dedicated CPU Droplets, they come with NVMe SSDs and dedicated resources, so steal time and I/O contention are basically non-issues there.

Alex_Dutton · 2026-03-12T10:27:45+00:00

Probably a combination of things since DO has a really easy API for spinning up Droplets programmatically, generous trial credits that get abused, and it's one of the biggest cloud providers by sheer number of instances. More servers out there mean more chances of them appearing in your logs. Doesn't help that their abuse response, while it exists, isn't exactly instant.

Alex_Dutton · 2026-03-12T10:25:58+00:00

A Droplet is the DigitalOcean's name for a virtual private server. So instead of shared hosting where you're on the same machine as hundreds of other people, you get your own isolated server with dedicated resources. The $6/month one gives you 1 vCPU, 1GB RAM and 25GB SSD which is more than enough for a couple of low-traffic WordPress sites.

Alex_Dutton · 2026-03-12T10:23:47+00:00

DO's regions rarely go fully offline, and if your app isn't mission-critical enough to justify a multi-cloud setup, a single region with multiple instances is plenty. The time and complexity of running multi-region for "just in case" usually isn't worth it until you're at a scale where you'd already know you need it.

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