DigitalOcean Admin Panel; first-time SSH as root

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https://cloud.digitalocean.com/

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Create a new droplet

Click Create > Droplets

Choose the following:

Distributions: Ubuntu 18.04.3 (LTS) x64

Choose a plan:

• Starter > Standard
• Scroll until you see the $5/mo option - click this

You get:

• 1 GB / 1 CPU
• 25 GB SSD disk
• 1000 GB transfer

Choose a datacenter region

Singapore 1 works well.

Authentication

Choose One-time password - we will disable password login later, and replace this with SSH-based login.

How many Droplets?

1

Choose a hostname

Enter a name that is convenient to ssh into from your Terminal, eg your main domain. For the demo, I chose lnl, which makes it easy to remember to type ssh lnl when I want to perform system administration tasks later.

Click Create Droplet

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Initial login credentials will be emailed to you in 30 seconds or less

It only takes that long for DigitalOcean to spin up a Ubuntu server for you.

For the purposes of this LnL, the login process will be provided to you separately.

Screen capture shows successfully sshing into your new Droplet and changing the root password: