I’m not into these cloud and docker stuff. i have limited knowledge of installing software on VPS. i have installed discourse on digitalocean successfully, it was simple even with docker presence.

Is there any type of resources that explains the installation process step by step for beginner people like me?

  • jay91@lemmy.mlOP
    3·
    3 years ago

    Thank you so much, i just need to now which ubuntu version i must use during the server setup.

    • seahorse@midwest.social
      4·
      3 years ago

      Digital Ocean gives you the option to simply spin up Ubuntu 20.04 with one click. That’s what I did. If you’re not familiar with Linux I highly recommend going through the Linux upskill challenge. They go over the basics and have you set up a firewall.

      Make sure your port 443 is open when you get TLS set up. I spent an entire day troubleshooting why my site wouldn’t get served to find out port 443 was appearing as filtered instead of open.

      • jay91@lemmy.mlOP
        3·
        3 years ago

        Thanks for your advise, i’m not going to production directly, i will do some testes for 2 weeks. after that i will launch for the public. the good thing is, that this community is very helpful. so i have no fears. also, i will go through the upskill challenge.