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How to create a server on Digital Ocean

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1. Visit Droplets page

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and

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2. Press the button "Create Droplet"

3. Choose image, size and datacenter region

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4. Add your SSH key

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To check existed files you can use command

ls -al ~/.ssh/

If you don't have any keys then follow this link https://help.github.com/articles/generating-an-ssh-key/

fig. key-2

To get public part of the key usually you can do this:

cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

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5. Press button "Create Droplet"

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In a few seconds you will see your new server and you get a new IP.

It could be somthing like this 257.123.45.67

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6. Visit your server

To visit your server can use the following command

ssh root@257.123.45.67 -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa

or just

ssh root@257.123.45.67

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Go further

See also How to setup a server on DO