How To Setup Linux Server on Cloud

Sometime we want to test an application into a real server. But, it dangerous if we use the production server. Yes, we need  a lab server for it. Built a new one is not cheap. We need a PC/Server, electricity, internet access, etc.
Rent a server or cloud is an effective and economic solution. Especially if the charging can on hourly based. A cloud provider which offer this service is Digital Ocean. And there is promo code $10 that worth for 2 months testing. How to get the promo code ? Simple. You can find the promo code on Facebook :

Or Twitter :

 Here the step to create linux server on Digital Ocean :
1. Sign up. Go to Digital Ocean :  Just enter an email & password for Creating Account.

2. After we create account, we will go to next page, notify that we have emailed email confirmation and have to confirming our email.

3. Go to email account we use for sign up. Confirming our email by click the blue button :

4. After confirming email, we have to update our billing data, although we will use the promo code. We can use a valid Credit Card :

 Or Paypal :

After that, we can put the promo code :

5. After we fill the promo code, we will get notification email like this :

6. Now, The account has activated and we can start to setup the server. Each server is called droplet.
First, we have to fill the hostname for the server and choose the specification :

Then, select the region where the server will belong. Choose the nearest with our location :

Next, choose the Linux distributions :

After that, the system will setup the server automatically and only need 55 seconds to finished. Detail technical data will be emailed.

After we got the notification email, we can access the server using ssh.

Finished & Happy Testing.