Building my First Droplet

Feb 14, 2017 • Michael Williams

First Digital Ocean Drop

I was hesitant, the first 7 were failures. Yet this time was different, not just a droplet. I knew I had a reason to build the droplet and I think that was a reason it worked! I tried working my build out of my tools site on godaddy and nothing I mean nothing went right. I was so fed up. I went straight to twitter and asked my coding support for tips. Digital Ocean came right up. I knew it was time for me to learn to push through in the next 24 hours.

Riding a Bike Working a Computer

I dropped in Ubuntu 16.04 and felt right at home since that is my operating system. Next step, SSH WOAH BUDDY, never done that before. time for a tutorial!! that was like bro where have you been all your life! I am by far not a master, and I am not 100% down with it yet, but I got my site up in about 25 minutes. Plus felt comfortable inside SFTP.

24 hour process

SFTP was interesting in the beginning but it was not bad to jump into afterwards. I felt right at home using the command line. it was great. I was really excited for this new approach actually compared to cPanel.

That is all for now!

until next time. Mikey havoc.