So I'm somewhat of a newb when it comes to setting up servers to deploy my Rails apps on. I love building the apps, but have been spoiled with Heroku's simple git push setup. This has been great, but I'm at the point now that I need something a bit better then their 'Hobby' setup and I don't want to pay for the next step up. I also looked at this as a good learning experience since I also know very little about the linux world. I chose DigitalOcean.com to play with because they have a $5 a month plan that you pay hourly by; about $0.007 an hour. You can create/destroy as many virtual servers as you want so it's great to play on. Here's what I did to get started. I'm sure there's plenty of things here that may not be 'optimal' to folks that are much better at it then me, but in case you're new like me, I'm hoping these directions may help you a bit; or at least get you started.
I started by [reading this file](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-