Moving to Digital Ocean – The beginners guide

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A few weeks ago I made my decision to move from my hosting company. I couldn’t handle constant down times, unanswered tickets. I figured I should step up my game and take my virtual private server into my hands – switching from managed to non managed VPS hosting. Digital Ocean seemed like a good choice. You can access their website at: digitalocean.com …

Droplet Setup – Beginners guide to Digital Ocean

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At this point you have everything prepared, got your site completely backed up, it’s time to go. Log in to your digital ocean account, if you don’t have one, you can create quickly on their website: digitalocean.com Creating your droplet What’s a droplet? Droplet is a virtual private server, that’s what they call it at Digital Ocean. After successfully creating your account, …

Virtual Hosts – Beginners guide to Digital Ocean

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By now we have a working private server with very basic features and a demo user. By default your website is data is accessed from the following directory: /var/www/ So if you open up your server address in your browser the files in this directory are parsed. This is not bad, however if you are planning to use 2 or …