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- Buy domain name.
- Register account at DigitalOcean.
- Go to domain name registrar and update nameservers. This is good.
- Create DNS record at DigitalOcean account. Use this again.
- Create your ‘droplet’. What this entails is specifying a hostname (which can be distinct from your domain name), choosing a monthly plan (choose the cheapest one for now…resizing is easy), selecting the ‘WordPress on 14.04’ in the ‘Applications’ tab, and adding an ssh-key.
- If you don’t know how to generate ssh-key’s, go here. Ignore steps 4 and onward.
- Add your ssh-key.
- Read this. When it says ‘Finishing Installation’, stop, and go onto the next step.
- Read this and this.
- Go back to ‘Finishing Installation’ in step 8.
- You should be done by this point.