I have used DigitalOcean for the last six years and I can say that it is one of the best cloud services I have tried, not just because of the affordable costs, but also because it is super easy and fast to configure, and the community has a lot of updated documentation to fix most of the common issues related to server configuration.

At this point, you will need to invest some money to get this service. I will show you the cheapest way to do this, and if in the future you want to increase the power of your Droplets, you will be able to increase the capacity without redoing the configuration. The lowest price for the very basic Droplet is $5.00 per month ($0.007 per hour).

We are going to use Ubuntu 20.04 (but feel free to use the latest version 21.04); you will need to know some basic Linux commands to be able to configure your Droplet. If you're a beginner using Linux, don't worry—I'll try to show you each step in a very...