Creating Public VPS Droplet using DigitalOcean

Look no further, I believe DigitalOcean and Vultr considered the Best VPS Infrastructure Out there. Creating Public VPS Droplet using DigitalOcean will show you step by step how to create a Public VPS using DigitalOcean. DigitalOcean call their VPS instances Droplets and Vultr call them VPS Instance. In the end of the day, VPS instance and Droplet refer to the same thing.

Objectives:

Creating DigitalOcean Droplet Using SSH-Keys

Prerequisites:

A. Basic Debian or Red Hat Linux Knowledge

B. Login to your DigitalOcean VPS Provider Account

Recommendations:

For better performance, use VPS with at least 2 CPUs, 4G Memory, 1G Bandwidth, and SSD Storage drive.

Creating DigitalOcean Droplet Using SSH-Keys

Login to DigitalOcean Control Panel and follow the steps as shown below.

Run the following steps ( 1 to 7)

1. Pick Your Favorite Linux Distribution

2. Choose your Droplet Size 

3. Pick the Closest Data Center

4. Final Options Before Creating

I highly recommend to choose all the 3 options and use SSH-Keys as well.

5. Moment of Truth

6. Under Droplets Tab

After few seconds, you will have an Active and running Droplet. Notice, that DO won’t send a Temp root password if you choose to create your Droplet using SSH-Keys, however, you have to set a root password regardless since you are going to manage your VPS using the Web Console window as well.

That’s it! You did it my friend, you have created a Linux VPS using DigitalOcean, and you should be able to SSH using the private key of your SSH-keys pair via SSH Clients such Putty and WinSCP.

7. Initial Web Console Login

Although you have created your VPS using SSH-Keys, making sure you can login using the web console using root is crucial to confirm. However, creating DO Droplet using SSH-Keys won’t sent you a temp root password, neither there is a way to change it at the Control Panel unless you reset root password using Managing Linux VPS Instance via Putty SSH Client. I will show you how to reset root password to make sure you can login to your VPS using Web Console.

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