Renting A Virtual Server From DigitalOcean

Our home task was to rent and try some virtual server. I chose DigitalOcean because they have pay for an hour plan and it is very cheap. https://www.digitalocean.com

Create your account from the homepage and choose your billing, either VISA or PayPal.

After payment is accepted select create droplet

From the droplet select your hostname and size (how much ram, disk space, transfer rate) If you are going to host website usually the cheapest one is good. Serving web pages doesn't use so much ram and 512mb should be just fine. 1gb should be enough for everything and it has some extra to spare. If your transfer limit gets full you just pay few cents per extra gigs.  

Next select region and your image. You should select region depending where your "customers" will connect your server. For example if people connect your server from USA you should select USA and if people connect from Europe you should select Amsterdam. Image is up to you what you are going to do with the server. Then Create Droplet.

After your droplet is created succesfully you will see information about your server.

And now you can access your server with SSH (Putty in Windows) your password is delivered to your email.

Now it is business as usual. 

Install for example LAMP and Wordpress and start hosting your own site.

I quickly installed Apache2 and tried with the provided IP address. Seems to work well! The IP welcomed me with the apache2 default page. Now I could just buy domain name and start doing business.

I also tried to connect with WinSCP and it worked out of the box. This is nice.