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Welcome to the HowTo-DigitalOcean wiki!

Here you find a series of tutorials to setup your own Virtual Private Server (VPS) on DiagitalOcean.

In the end you will have:

  • Your own VPS running Ubuntu or FreeBSD
  • Using an [Apache]] web server to host [[Ruby On Rails]] applications secured with [Let's Encrypt certificates
    • Rails applications are running in sandboxes with the help of Phusion Passenger and Git for automatically deployment
  • Having PostgreSQL in place as the preferred data base for Rails applications

Let's go:

  1. Start with Ubuntu Server Setup or FreeBSD Server Setup
  2. Install necessary Software packages