DigitalOcean Data Persistence Fix

Each time I push my project from GitHub to DigitalOcean and hit redeploy, all of my PostgreSQL records vanish. The application itself comes back up but the database is completely empty, so I clearly haven’t configured persistence correctly.

Here’s what you’ll walk me through in a live video call (no hands-on coding from your side, just guidance and screen-sharing while I do the typing):

• Identify exactly how my Postgres instance is running in DigitalOcean (managed database, Docker container, or one-off service) and confirm whether a volume or external DB is needed.
• Show me the correct way to attach or mount persistent storage so data survives every redeploy.
• Help me migrate the current credentials out of the GitHub repository and into proper environment variables or DigitalOcean secrets.
• Verify the fix by deploying once more and proving the data remains intact.

I only need someone with solid, real-world experience doing this on DigitalOcean with GitHub-based workflows and PostgreSQL. If you’ve solved the “data gone after deploy” problem before, that’s exactly the experience I want to hear about in your message. One focused call and a short wrap-up note with the steps we covered will close the job.