what's the Digital Ocean ？
According to Du Niang’s interpretation, Digital Ocean is a cloud host business established in 2012 and headquartered in New York. It adopts KVM virtualization and is equipped with high-performance SSD for storage. In addition, the server is equipped with 1000M ports and 512M memory as The starting point, the monthly payment is as low as $5, and it has been sought after and recognized by everyone in a relatively short period of time. The current number of servers has exceeded 15,000, and 19 people are employed!
- New York: NYC1, NYC2, NYC3
- San Francisco: SFO1
- Amsterdam: AMS1, AMS2, AMS3
- Singapore: SGP1
- London: LON1
- India: BLR1
Note: Domestic telecommunications users are recommended to choose San Francisco on the west coast of the United States. The domestic speed is faster. Although Singapore is theoretically closest to us, most domestic telecommunications users detour to Europe, so the line speed is not as fast as San Francisco.
In short, Digital Ocean is a website that allows us to open a server . However, it should be noted: digitalocean prohibits users from opening public proxy services; prohibits hosting adult content; prohibits external attacks; prohibits uploading and disseminating digital content that infringes copyright, prohibits one person from registering multiple accounts at the same time, and things that are not allowed by U.S. law.
How to Own Your Own Server with Digital Ocean
1. Register an account
Open Digital Ocean's official website: https://cloud.digitalocean.com/ Click the sign up button in the upper right corner
2. Verify email
Enter your email to register. After successful registration, a verification email will be sent to your registered email. Open the email and click the verification URL to verify.
3. Payment method verification
After the email verification is successful, you will automatically log in to the "Billing" page in the digitalocean settings to verify your payment method. There are two verification methods: one is to bind a credit card, and the other is to recharge the account with $5 through paypal. As a domestic user, it is recommended not to use a domestic credit card. It is said that it will be unsuccessful and the account will be directly invalidated. The advantage of verifying the account through the paypal recharge method is that if there is a dispute, you can apply for a refund through the paypal dispute, and the security of paypal funds is better than the credit card binding.
First of all, we must have a PayPal account. The official website address https://www.paypal.com/ can be registered and bound with a bank card number. The usage method is similar to Alipay.
Fourth, create a server host
Click the Create Droples button, and after selecting the server location (Los Angeles is recommended), system, etc., you need to create an ssh key. For detailed operations such as creating ssh keys, please refer to another blog: How to use SSH keys for DigitalOcean Droplets
Introducing the Server Control Panel
Background management is divided into 10 modules:
1. graphs [chart] 2. Access [access or login] 3. Power [power supply] 4. Resize [adjustment] 5. Networking [network]
6. Backups [backup] 7. Snapshots [snapshot] 8. Kernel [kernel] 9. History [record] 10. Destroy [delete]
I have translated all of them into Chinese. Friends who need it can refer to them. We commonly use graphs [chart], Power [power supply], and Destroy [delete].
1. graphs [chart]
Here, the operation of cpu, network traffic, and disk is displayed in detail.
2. Access [Access or Login]
Here you can log in to the console for management via SSH, or reset the password of the super administrator root.
3. Power [power supply]
You can turn off the vps here, or restart the vps. Of course, even if it is turned off, the billing will continue. The billing will only stop when you delete the vps host. For the deletion function, please refer to Destroy [Delete].
4. Resize [adjustment]
If you need a higher configuration, but still want to keep the ip, you can adjust and upgrade here. There are permanent adjustments and elastic adjustments:
Permanent adjustment will increase the disk space, the system may be broken, it is best to reinstall the system after the upgrade.
Elastic adjustment just upgrades the CPU and memory. It is a non-destructive upgrade and will not affect the existing system.
5. Networking [Network]
There is nothing to say here, friends who need it can refer to it by themselves.
6. Backups [backup]
There is a fee for this feature.
7. Snapshots [snapshot]
Snapshots are useful for friends in need.
8. Kernel [kernel]
The system kernel can be replaced here. It is very useful for those who need to install Russo. After all, Russue has high requirements for the system kernel, and the incompatible kernel cannot be installed with Russo. At this time, you can replace the compatible kernel of Russo here.
9. History [record]
Here is your action log.
10. Destroy [Delete]
The host can be deleted here, and the billing will not continue until the host is deleted.
You can also reinstall the system. Blessed are those who need to reinstall the system. I just started contacting digitalocean, and I reinstall the system here every day for testing. If you also like to fiddle with early adopters, this will be your most commonly used function.
Introduction to setting interface
This time, only the commonly used billing and profile are introduced.
1. billing
This is what we care about the most, where we can view account balances, spending details, and more.
This is the billing history in billing, as shown below:
2. Profile [Introduction]
The most important thing here is to cancel the account. If you are sure that you do not need the digitalocean service, you can cancel the account here.