digital ocean notes

pocketnet requirement

per FAQ https://pocketnet.app/help?page=node

Requirements for Linux (I'm using Ubuntu desktop 18.04 LTS):

>12Gb RAM
>6 core CPU
>10Gb free disk space
>10Mb/s internet speed ( https://www.speedtest.net )


DIGITAL OCEAN
digitalocean.com

create a "droplet"
Ubuntu 20.04

Basic Plan
click the button by Regular "Intel with SSD"
click the $20/month plan

$  20 /mo
$0.030 /hour
4 GB / 2 CPUs (I found I needed 16GB!)
80 GB SSD Disk
4 TB transfer

Probably skip the "Block Storage", it can be added later if needed

Data Center:

Pick somewhere in the US (don't worry about this now)

VPC Network: default

No additional options (add later)

Authentication:
Choose SSH Keys and try to figure out the directions.  This might blow your mind. If so choose New SSH Key and paste this in there:

Create 1 droplet and give it a hostname.

make the droplet be part of some project, and you don't care what its name is.

Don't do droplet backups yet. add it some other day.

hit the create droplet button