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How to Setup a VPS (droplet) on Digital Ocean

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Digital Ocean:

DigitalOcean is a cloud hosting provider that offers virtual Linux servers called “droplets” with the SSH access and solid-state drives. They have data centers around the world and their web hosting plans for developers.

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Steps to setup a VPS on Digital Ocean:

  1. Head to the digital ocean website and create a new digital ocean account.
  2. You have to verify your account using your email address before you can create a droplet. Once you have verified your email address, you will now need to fund it to pay for a droplet.
  3. Choose a funding source from the options as given below. 
  4. You will now have the option of creating a new droplet. You can also enable the two-factor authentication on your account at this stage. *This is recommended.
    1. Choose a server type.
    2. Choose a server size. $5 per month sever will be a sufficient option for most cases. You can also upgrade this at a later date.
    3. Select a server location, closest to you is the best option.
    4. If you would like to login to your server using SSH keys, you can add your keys here.
    5. Give your server a Hostname and click on Create. This will begin the setup process for your server. It takes you nearly 5-10 mins.
  5. Once your server has been provisioned, you will receive an email notification from the Digital Ocean. It contains the login details for the server.
    1. Connect to the droplet, you will require a program called PuTTY and download PuTTY here.
    2. Open the PuTTY configuration and enter the server IP address and click on the open. Click on Yes to the security alert pop up.
    3. Enter the Root as the username and the preset password emailed to you from Digital Ocean.
  6. You should now be connected to your Digital Ocean droplet if you have entered in everything correctly.

Wrapping Up

Digital Ocean is one of the finest examples for developer-friendly cloud hosting providers out there. If you have any doubts or queries, on setup a VPS on Digital Ocean, feel free to let us know in the comment section.