Create a digitalocean droplet on the fly. I put this in a flask web app to speed up the process even more.

create_droplet.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import digitalocean

droplet = digitalocean.Droplet(
  token="****",
  name='test',
  region='nyc2', # NewYork 2
  image='ubuntu-14-04-x64', # ubuntu 14.04 x64
  size_slug='512mb', # 512MB
  backups=False
)

# Create the droplet
droplet.create()