The first step in this process is to log into your digital ocean account.
If you don't have an account click the sign a button you'll be prompted to enter the e-mail address
and the password you'd like to use.
Once you've created an account you have to enter some basic payment details and then you'll be able
to use digital ocean to create servers.
Since I already have an account I'm going to go ahead and click the log in button.
I'll go ahead and enter my log in credentials.
We are now on the Digital Ocean dashboard so here under the Resources tab you can see the different
droplets that you have and also the different domains that are attached to this project.
On the left hand side you can see the different projects that are in this digital ocean account a project
you can think of it as a folder that contains different droplets and different domains different settings
that pertain to different Web sites.
So since we're going to be working on a completely new project I'm going to go ahead and click the new
project button here.
So we're now prompted to enter a name for the project.
I'll go ahead and call it main server.
Or you can call your project anything you like because this server is going to be hosting multiple domains.
I gave it a more generic name.
If your server was going to be dedicated for one Web site you could enter a name that's more relevant
to that Web site.
It's not required that you add a description but it is required that you select a purpose.
So I'll go ahead and select development.
Now it's asking if we want to move any existing resources to our main server.
We don't want to do this.
So I'm going to go ahead and click skip for now.
On the left menu you can see that the main server project is now available.
So now back on this main page we can go ahead and create our droplet to do so.
Click the Create droplet button
in this section we can select the type of distribution we want to configure on our droplet since we're
going to be working with Ubuntu select Ubuntu eighteen point zero for 64 bit
if it's not the default here you can select it from the menu.
The next thing you'll need to do is select a size for the droplet.
Now I'm going to select the smallest size of one gigabyte memory one CPQ twenty five gigabytes of SSD
disk space and one terabyte transfer per month.
If you know that you're going to be using this server for something much more extensive than just learning
purposes then you'll want to select a higher configuration and that configuration will depend entirely
on your needs.
So for now I'm going to select the first option
and I'm going to scroll down the page and the next thing will need to do here is select a data region.
If you're going to be using this Web server for serving web pages to your customers you want to select
a region closest to your customers.
This will ensure your website loads as fast as possible when visitors access your site.
But again this is just for demonstration purposes.
So I'm going to go ahead and select New York
no scrolling down.
The next thing we'll need to do here is choose a hostname for this server.
So again because the server will be hosting multiple sites I can give it a generic name.
A call that main server just like we did for the project.
Now go ahead and click Create
you'll see the blue status bar appears and that indicates the progress on the deployment of this server
and it normally doesn't take more than one or two minutes.
So the server has now been created and you can see that an IP has been assigned to this server by default.
Digital Ocean has also emailed you your password for this server so you will want to make sure that
you log into your email and make sure that that email is there because we'll be using that password
shortly.
This is known as your route administrative password.