# Digital Ocean

!!! info "Architectural Context"
    Detailed reference for Digital Ocean in the context of Cloud Providers (Hyperscalers).

## Standard Reference

  - [App Platform](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [theregister.com: DigitalOcean decides to head rivals off at the PaaS, floats App Platform to deploy, run code without juggling servers](https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2020/10/07/digitalocean-decides-to-head-rivals-off-at-the-paas-floats-app-platform-to-deploy-run-code-without-juggling-servers/802967)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [Digital Ocean](https://www.digitalocean.com)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [Digital Ocean Kubernetes (DOKS)](https://www.digitalocean.com/products/kubernetes)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [try.digitalocean.com/cloudplex](https://try.digitalocean.com/cloudplex)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [Community Tools 🌟](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tools)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [App Platform - Digital Ocean PaaS](https://try.digitalocean.com/app-platform)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>
  - [thenewstack.io: DigitalOcean App Platform Eases Kubernetes Deployments for' Developers](https://thenewstack.io/digitalocean-app-platform-eases-kubernetes-deployments-for-developers)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span>

## Cloud Infrastructure

### GPU Compute

#### Model Deployment

  - [How to run Deepseek R1 LLMs on GPU Droplets](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/deepseek-r1-gpu-droplets)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--info'>[COMMUNITY-TOOL]</span> <span class='md-tag md-tag--secondary'>[GUIDE]</span> — Tactical walkthrough showing how to provision DigitalOcean GPU Droplets to serve DeepSeek-R1. Configures vLLM runtimes, registers systemd units, and establishes benchmarking paradigms to maximize inference performance on cost-effective infrastructure.
## Networking

### Web Servers

#### Nginx

##### Configuration Generators

  - [NGINXConfig](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tools/nginx)  <span class='md-tag md-tag--success'>[DE FACTO STANDARD]</span> — DigitalOcean's visual configuration tool for Nginx. It generates highly secure, production-tested server blocks tailored for modern features like HTTP/2, custom security headers, SSL/TLS optimizations via Let's Encrypt, and Gzip compression.

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