hi I'm Mitchell Anika a technical writer
at digitalocean in this screencast I'll
show you how to create your own droplet
or cloud server on digitalocean this is
a very quick and easy process and by the
end of it
you'll have your own Linux server that
you can use for anything from developing
and deploying apps to hosting your own
website for our example we will create
in a boon to server open a web browser
and go to digital ocean comm if you're
not already logged in click the log in
link on the top right now type in the
email address and password that you
registered with then click login prior
to creating your first droplet your
control panel will look like this click
the create droplet button at this point
you must specify the details of the
droplet that you want to create first
select the droplet host name because we
are creating it in a boon to server
let's just call it a boon to then select
your cloud server size on digitalocean
there are preset available sizes based
on memory CPU and storage capacity
combinations we will go with the basic
ten dollar month option which gives us
one gigabyte of RAM 1 processor and 30
gigabytes of solid-state storage next
select your region this determines where
your droplet will be created if you are
just starting off you will probably want
to choose a region that is
geographically close to you I live in
New York City so I will choose New York
3 the available settings section is
where you can select droplet features
such as private networking and ipv6 I
would recommend enabling private
networking if it is available in the
region that you selected private
networking is useful if you intend to
create multiple droplets in the same
region that will communicate with each
other you may select any other settings
if you wish
now you must select the image that you
wish to install on the new droplet there
are several Linux distributions to
choose from such as Ubuntu CentOS and
Fedora recently FreeBSD was added as
another option in addition to these
plain images there are several one-click
images under the applications tab these
one-click
come with an application pre-installed
if you want a head start with WordPress
or Ruby on Rails for example just make
the appropriate selection here as
mentioned earlier we will be creating an
Ubuntu 1404 server click back to the
distributions tab and select a point to
then select Ubuntu 1404 x64 you also
have the option to add SSH keys to the
admin user of the new droplet that you
are creating this is highly recommended
for security purposes as an alternative
to password authentication however in
this screencast we will not use SSH keys
to proceed click the create droplet
button
a one gigabyte drop
typically takes less than one minute to
create
once the droplet has been created you
will be taken to the droplets
information page here you can find
information such as the IP address and
other details of the droplet let's
connect to the droplet via SSH to
connect to a droplet for the first time
you must know its IP address select and
copy the IP address to your clipboard
now open your terminal program by
pressing command space bar to open
spotlight then type in terminal and hit
enter if you're using windows you'll
want to use putty instead to connect to
a fresh Ubuntu server for the first time
you must connect as the root user type
in SSH space root at symbol and then
paste in the IP address of the new
droplet then hit return the first time
you connect to a particular server via
SSH you will see this warning type in
yes and hit enter to continue because we
did not add SSH keys while creating the
droplet we will be prompted for the
password of the root user this password
can be found in the email account that
you registered with check your email and
look for a new message from digitalocean
and open it the email will contain
information about your droplet including
the root password select and copy the
password to your clipboard then switch
back to your terminal program paste the
password in and hit enter the first time
you log into a droplet it will attempt
to change the root users password paste
in the root password again and hit enter
now supply a new password for root and
hit enter you will be required to
confirm the new password by entering it
again once you're done with that
congratulations you've just created and
logged into your first digitalocean
droplet we hope you enjoyed the
screencast if you're looking to learn
more about open source software and
server administration be sure to check
out the digital ocean community for our
extensive collection of tutorials at
Diageo slash community see you next time