upgrade Digital Ocean droples to new 1G plan

see Digital Ocean backup fail cause hard drive full #nomads #remoteok

#building upgrading droplet sizes

resize backupOfLinodeOnDigitalOcean to 640 GB #nomads

🔥 trashed and rebuilt my main docker box. dumped a 12+ containers I didn't need running anymore.

Create fresh DigitalOcean droplet to be replacing older one from 2016

Dusting off my Digital Ocean account #research

Downgrade (resize) overkill specs for DigitalOcean droplet to lessen impact on financial burndown #shipnix

Free up HDD on Linode server by deleting logs and old database exports

Discover I've been paying for powered off DigitalOcean droplet all year long #funmode

make new smaller Digital Ocean droplet with a 2TB block storage volume attached to it to use for backing up the Linode VPS because block storage data is 10x cheaper than VPS SSD storage #nomads #remoteok

Setup Ghost DigitalOcean Droplet

Able to ssh into my new Digital Ocean droplet with my new 'nathan' user; installed nginx; updated my Cloudflare DNS records for my domains to point to my new droplet; deleted unused subdomains and old MX/TXT/CNAME records; confirmed a 'Hello World' index.html site served by nginx is working.

Fix resize DigitalOcean droplet link #shipnix

Setup WordPress on Digital Ocean

clean up 25GB of docker container junk

remove some old massive db files and Nginx log files to save 4% disk space because we were at 96% again #remoteok #nomads

backup dad backup ZIP of his old film studies to Digital Ocean so I can remove it from Linode cause the disk 97% full and it’s 200GB of his files aka 20% #life

Fix being locked out of digital ocean droplet