From the course: Deploying Django Apps: Make Your Site Go Live

Digital Ocean account

From the course: Deploying Django Apps: Make Your Site Go Live

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Digital Ocean account

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- [Instructor] Welcome to our DigitalOcean deployment. This is the first way that we're going to deploy our Django app. Let's go ahead and open up a browser. We need to create a DigitalOcean account. I'm going to open up Chrome for my browser. Feel free to use any browser that you would like. Go ahead and go to digitalocean.com. Once we're at DigitalOcean, we need to create a new account. So up at the top right, we can sign up. And go ahead and fill in your information. Once you have that, go ahead and hit Sign Up. DigitalOcean is now going to ask you to go log in to your email and click the confirmation email that they just sent you. That'll bring you back here. I'll go ahead and do that, and we'll meet back together. Now once you've clicked that confirmation email, you'll get to a screen here that's going to ask for your billing information. So with DigitalOcean, in order to run a server, you need to have payment, and so you can choose whether you'd like to do that with a credit or debit card or PayPal. But go ahead, fill out your information, and save that card to your account. Then we'll be able to move forward. Now once you've put in your payment information, DigitalOcean is going to ask for your project goals. So first, we need to give a name for the project that we're working on. And we're trying to deploy our portfolio project, so I'm going to call this something like Django Portfolio. Next, it's going to ask, What is your project for? Feel free to choose anything you'd like. This is more just marketing stuff from DigitalOcean. I'm going to say Just trying out DigitalOcean. Don't have to select any of these different options here. Again, I think they're just kind of surveying us. So if you scroll down to the bottom, we'll get to our Start button here. Go ahead and click that. Now if you've confirmed your email, put in your payment information, you should see this dashboard, and this means that we are ready to go.

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