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Linux on DigitalOcean

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From the course: Linux Tips

Linux on DigitalOcean

- [Instructor] One great place to run Linux in the cloud is DigitalOcean. For a while now, they've had an offering that starts at $5 a month for a small Linux machine that's great for experimenting with services and web apps. Whenever I want to set up a small personal project online, DigitalOcean is usually my first stop. From their site, you can sign up and then choose to create a Droplet, which is what they call their virtual machines. From my dashboard here, I'll choose Create and Droplets. I can choose a distro, Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, CentOS, even FreeBSD, and I can choose which of the available versions to use. Down below, I can choose a Droplet size. I'll go for the $5 a month one here. That's just fine for learning about Linux in the cloud and even for hosting a personal website or blog or a variety of simple services. Further down, I can choose which of their global datacenters to start the Droplet in. I'll choose one in San Francisco. Following some additional options, I'm…

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