Prerequisites - monkins1010/Verusguideassets GitHub Wiki

Things you'll need

Okay, so you've got a killer new product and you want to get it into your own online shop. You could dig out that old laptop you have had for years lying in the draw and have everything running on that. However this is highly not recommended due to speed, scalability, down time, backup all the things we know and love about websites.

What you'll need

  • A server
    • This is computer that is permanently running in a data centre somewhere. It has a fast internet connection to allow hundreds of people to connect to it. It is probably is battery backed up, and has lots of space available. Designed for website hosting.
    • There is a plethora of server providers out there that can provide you with a computer you can rent. This guide will use DigitalOcean. However there are many others available.
    • The specification of the server if you intend to run one shop and one cryptocurrency payment method must be a minimum of 4GB of RAM, 25GB of hard drive space, and two CPU cores are recommended.
    • The server will have an operating system on it and unfortunately windows is out, so we will use a free operating system called Linux. The flavour of Linux called Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
  • A home computer to do all the setup and management on.
    • This can be Windows or Ubuntu machine
    • You will need a way of talking to the Linux server, this guide will use a program called MobaXterm. Its like a remote control to the server.
  • Links to all the free software that you will need to download