diff --git a/docs/tutorials/digitalocean.md b/docs/tutorials/digitalocean.md
index 41b810168..2a316a390 100644
--- a/docs/tutorials/digitalocean.md
+++ b/docs/tutorials/digitalocean.md
@@ -189,3 +189,13 @@ Now that we have verified that ExternalDNS will automatically manage DigitalOcea
 $ kubectl delete service -f nginx.yaml
 $ kubectl delete service -f externaldns.yaml
 ```
+
+## Advanced Usage
+
+### API Page Size
+
+If you have a large number of domains and/or records within a domain, you may encounter API
+rate limiting because of the number of API calls that external-dns must make to the DigitalOcean API to retrieve
+the current DNS configuration during every reconciliation loop. If this is the case, use the 
+`--digitalocean-api-page-size` option to increase the size of the pages used when querying the DigitalOcean API.
+(Note: external-dns uses a default of 50.)
diff --git a/pkg/apis/externaldns/types.go b/pkg/apis/externaldns/types.go
index 68b76e0ed..c2c6c06c3 100644
--- a/pkg/apis/externaldns/types.go
+++ b/pkg/apis/externaldns/types.go
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ var defaultConfig = &Config{
 	NS1IgnoreSSL:                false,
 	TransIPAccountName:          "",
 	TransIPPrivateKeyFile:       "",
-	DigitalOceanAPIPageSize:     200,
+	DigitalOceanAPIPageSize:     50,
 }
 
 // NewConfig returns new Config object