Using Digital Ocean If UR Not An Expert: Review

Posted by gregladen on Nov 18, 2015 10:13 PM EDT
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I am not a hacker or IT professional, yet I use Linux because it is better and more ethical. There are a lot of us evernoobs out there. This is a review and some guidelines for using Digital Ocean to set up a WP blog.

Mike Haubrich and I are planning a science oriented podcasting effort. It will be called “Ikonokast” (all the good names, like “The New York Times” and “Apple” were taken). We decided to enhance the podcast with a WordPress based blog site, perhaps with each page representing one podcast, and containing backup and supplementary information.

After considering our options, we decided to try using a Digital Ocean “Droplet” to host a WordPress blog. Here, I want to tell you how that went, and give a few pointers. This might be a good idea for some of you. And, I’ll explain what the heck Digital Ocean is in case you don’t know....

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