Thank you so much for your kind words. We've linked to this thread in our internal slack channel and I know this kind of feedback means a lot to the team. We're really excited about creating useful, approachable content, and hearing about how it has helped others is great encouragement.

If you, or someone you know, wants to join us in this effort, we are both hiring for these roles in the Community Department (https://www.digitalocean.com/company/careers/) and seeking freelance contributions (https://www.digitalocean.com/community/get-paid-to-write)

Man I have to second this sentiment. When I was first getting into the DevOps side adding "digital ocean" at the end of all of my Google questions always led to me a really well written and concise article complete with copy paste ready shell commands that without fail got me to where I needed to be.

I would love to see an article someday just discussing the inner workings of how Digital Ocean managed/curated this community.

I don't work for DO so I could be wrong, but it's my understanding that they actually pay the community for contributed articles to their knowledge base and tutorials section. This is a brilliant idea (if true).

Totally this. Seriously good documentation on how to set up things for that know enough, but not quite enough. I've used those tutorials for no just my DO instances, but also setting up virtual box linux severs.

Agreed, I have used several of their tutorials to get things working on my droplet. The tutorials rank high in search and often happen to be exactly what I am looking for (that does not happen often!).

E.g. just this week I used their tutorial to secure nginx with Let's Encrypt which worked perfectly.