DigitalOcean is a provider of cloud storage and computing platforms. They offer a hosted platform for web development and a range of tools and resources to make setting up a web server easy.
In this article, we will show you how to set up your own DigitalOcean account and host a website on their platform.
To begin, you will need to create an account on DigitalOcean. Once you have an account, you can login and view your account information.
In this article, we will be using the example of setting up a blog using DigitalOcean.
Once you have logged in to your DigitalOcean account, you will need to create a droplet. A droplet is a cloud hosting service that allows you to run a virtual server on DigitalOcean.
You can create a droplet with either Ubuntu or Windows. We will be using the Windows droplet for this example.
To create your Windows droplet, click on the droplets button on the main navigation bar and then click on the Create Droplet button.
In the Droplet Creation Wizard, enter the following information:
Name: blog
Location: New York
Server Type: Ubuntu 14.04
Server Size: 1GB
Click on the Create Droplet button.
Your droplet will now be created and you will be taken to the Droplet Details page. On this page, you will need to enter the following information:
IP Address: 172.17.
0.100.
Port: 80
Click on the Launch button.
You will now be taken to the Ubuntu 14.04 server overview page. On this page, you will need to enter the following information:
Description: A blog hosted on DigitalOcean
Click on the SSH into Server button.
In the SSH into Server field, enter the IP address of your droplet. In this example, we will be using the IP address of our droplet that we created in the previous step.
In the Hostname field, enter the hostname of your droplet. In this example, we will be using the hostname of our droplet that we created in the previous step.
In the User Name field, enter the user name of the user who will be running the blog on the droplet. In this example, we will be using the user name of the user who created the droplet in the previous step.
In the Password field, enter the password of the user who will be running the blog on the droplet. In this example, we will be using the password of the user who created the droplet in the previous step.
You will now be taken to the blog’s home page. On this page, you will see the following information:
The IP address of the blog (172.100).
The port that the blog is running on (80)
The user name and password that were entered when the droplet was created
The blog’s description
To make changes to the blog, you will need to use the command line interface. To do this, you will need to SSH into the droplet and use the command line. To SSH into the droplet, enter the following command:
ssh root@172.
You will now be logged in to the droplet as the root user.
