January 7, 2026
Volumes aren't in Droplet backups. Here's how to snapshot them on a schedule, copy them off-platform, and verify the snapshot restores cleanly.
January 3, 2026
The 20% backup add-on, daily backups on Premium Droplets, snapshot storage fees, and whether paying more to DO beats sending backups off-platform.
January 2, 2026
Droplet backups, managed database backups, PITR and volume snapshots: what each one covers, what it misses, and the retention you actually end up with.
April 22, 2022
What DigitalOcean Backups actually does: weekly system-level snapshots of a Droplet, four retained periods, attached Volumes excluded, and when that is enough.
April 2, 2022
DigitalOcean Snapshots cost $0.06 per GB of snapshot size per month, billed on used storage rather than allocated. Worked examples, and how Backups differ.
June 11, 2020
create an access key and a secret key for your DigitalOcean Spaces In this tutorial I will highlight the steps to follow and also provide some…
June 10, 2020
Every DigitalOcean datacenter region and location, from New York to Sydney, which ones DigitalOcean treats as legacy, and which Droplet plans run in each.
