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Introducing DigitalOcean Managed MongoDB – a fully managed, database as a service for modern apps

Securely connect to Droplets with SSH key pairs using a new Droplet Console

How to scale your SaaS product without breaking the bank

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Building the Next Generation of DigitalOcean Networking

Luca SalvatoreLuca Salvatore onEngineering   2015-08-25

On April 15th, we opened our newest datacenter in Frankfurt. The ...

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Getting Ready for PHP 7

Erika Heidi onEngineering   2015-07-15

2015 has been an important year for PHP. Eleven years after its ...

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Series B Funding: Writing a New Chapter in the DigitalOcean Story

Sammy avatarDigitalOcean onNews   2015-07-07

For over three years, we've been driven by the desire to empower ...

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Guest Post: Behind the Stack of JavaScript.com

Sammy avatarDigitalOcean onCommunity   2015-06-15

This morning at Code School we released JavaScript.com, a free c ...

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Transparent Huge Pages and Alternative Memory Allocators: A Cautionary Tale

Sam Kottler onEngineering   2015-06-15

Recently, our site reliability engineering team started getting ...

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Team Accounts: Share Resources Not Passwords

As more and more applications get deployed on DigitalOcean's clo ...

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Update on CVE-2015-3456, aka the VENOM Security Vulnerability

Sammy avatarDigitalOcean onEngineering   2015-05-12

Earlier today, CVE-2015-3456, a security vulnerability also know ...

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DigitalOcean's 2014 Transparency Report

Sammy avatarDigitalOcean onNews   2015-05-11

Today we publish DigitalOcean's first ever Transparency Report. ...

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Horizontally Scaling PHP Applications

Erika Heidi onEngineering   2015-04-21

Shipping a website or application to production has its own chal ...

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Introducing Our New European Region: Frankfurt! (FRA1)

Sammy avatarDigitalOcean onNews   2015-04-14

We're opening the new German region for business! Our new FRA1 f ...

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API v2 Officially Leaves Beta

We are very pleased to announce that API v2 is coming out of bet ...