This is a Complete Guide, so I ask for a little patience to understand all the issues covered here. If you have any difficulties, just contact contact<\/a> that I\u2019m totally willing to help. To facilitate navigation we will leave a summary: <\/p>\n\n\n\n I spent years of my life using Hostgator, but there was a time when my site went over 100,000 monthly visits. Despite the unlimited traffic advertisement, my server crashed several times when more than 150 people went online. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It was at this time that I met Cloud Hosting<\/strong>. A type of VPS that is not only available on one machine, but several machines make its dedicated server. If a machine fails, your site remains online without a problem thanks to the other servers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It was at that time that a friend recommended me to Digital Ocean<\/strong>, one of the most popular cloud hosting today. Here you not only host websites, you can do just about anything you would do with a VPS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There are thousands of cloud hosting services, but what attracted me to Digital Ocean<\/strong> was its price. With an investment of $ 5 you are able to host a wordpress site<\/strong> able to receive more than 500 people simultaneously<\/strong> if the server and cache is well configured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With an investment of 20 $ I was able to rent a cloud server with 4GB of RAM and two processing cores. Another big difference that made me choose Digital Ocean was the SSD that is available on all servers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In it I host a website that receives 500,000 monthly visits, that website and also the email marketing tool called mautic<\/strong>. All of this without spending even 30% of the CPU (that is, you could be using a cheaper plan). <\/p>\n\n\n\n One of the things that made me afraid is the fact that I have to configure my hosting server myself, but I discovered tools (websites) that made this very easy and I will recommend them in this and other articles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n With Digital Ocean you can have servers with 1 up to 32 processing cores or up to 64GB of ram. Not only that, in DO (affectionate nickname) you can also choose the location of your server, add a backup option, add storage, choose between IPv6 and other options when configuring your server. <\/p>\n\n\n\n You can also manage domain DNS through Digital Ocean, distribute traffic to others droplets<\/strong> (servers) and many other services that expand more and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At DO plans start from $ 5 and go wherever you want: <\/p>\n\n\n\n The site also offers Two-factor authentication<\/strong> to make your hosting server more secure. You can also configure SSH keys and SSL Certificates (HTTPS). <\/p>\n\n\n\n One of DO's new services is Spaces, which consists of cheap file storage where you pay $ 5 for 250GB of HD with 1TB of monthly download. <\/p>\n\n\n\n You can create the image of a cloud, duplicate, clone, monitor, use API and countless other functions without counting the options outside of Digital Ocean that are also important for your hosting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Don't be fooled by advertisements!<\/strong> Before joining Digital Ocean, I had done a test at BlueHost, where the offered server had 6 cores and 8GB of ram for less than 100 reais. As soon as I went up my site I felt the performance was very slow and the CPU was using 99% of the machine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n My friend uses the blue host with satisfaction, but whenever he launches his online course, the server falls due to the gigantic amount of access. If he had one cloud<\/strong> with full control and using SSD, you wouldn't have these problems. <\/p>\n\n\n\n One of the advantages of Digital Ocean<\/strong> is that you create your cloud server any way you want. You choose from thousands of operating systems or you can already install a script when creating your server. You have full access to SSH and can install anything you want on your cloud<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition the Digital Ocean<\/strong> uses a system called Droplet<\/strong>, where you can customize and change your server's RAM, CPU and Storage in a few seconds without affecting your website or cloud project. <\/p>\n\n\n\n You can create and delete cloud servers anytime you want, without spending a fortune on monthly contracts, as Digital Ocean charges for server time online. For example, you can test robust servers without paying hundreds of dollars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I wish I had that at the time I met Digital Ocean<\/strong>. People who register through my link, will receive for the next 60 days 100 $ credit to spend and test at Digital Ocean. <\/p>\n\n\n\n If you have enjoyed the best cloud hosting, I earn $ 25 if you continue to use the service. You can also recommend Digital Ocean to other users in the future. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Just click on any of the links that lead to Digital Ocean in this article. For example, access the link below to learn about Digital Ocean's plans and register: <\/p>\n\n\n\n Do not think that I am doing this article just to earn the $ 25 from people who use Digital Ocean. To tell the truth, any cloud or even shared hosting offers a referral fee. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I could be referring other accommodations, or you could just be accessing someone else's link that they recommend Digital Ocean. I really recommend this company for considering it the best, and I will also recommend others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I'm talking about it here, because one of the focuses of this site is to teach readers how to make money and work on the internet. So I want make aware<\/strong> the methods I use to get my daily bread and recommend it to you too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n So I thank the readers of this article for using Digital Ocean through the links on my website, so you enjoy the $ 100 to create your cloud server and I enjoy my $ 25 if you continue to use Digital Ocean. A very good gain taking into account the value of the dollar.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The first thing you need to do is create an account using my referral link<\/a>. After registering, confirming and logging into your Digital Ocean account, you will create on the Create Server button (Create & gt; Droplet). The droplets<\/strong> are drops or your servers with IP, SSH access and the operating system you choose. <\/p>\n\n\n\n First in Choose an Image<\/strong> you must choose which operating system to install on your Droplet. The most recommended is Ubuntu, although there are options One-Click-Apps<\/strong>, we do not recommend using them. It may seem simpler at first but it becomes more complicated and can cause headaches in the future. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Then choose your plan or Droplet Hardware, the values \u200b\u200bstart at 5 $: <\/p>\n\n\n\n Then there are optional configurations like the Data Center, we recommend new York<\/strong> which is closer to Brazil. The other settings are optional, we do not recommend changing anything. <\/p>\n\n\n\n After your server is online, we need to redirect your domain to the server in Digital Ocean. You must first access the website where you manage your domain and redirect the NameServers<\/strong> for:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Then you need to log into the Digital Ocean domain manager and create an entry THE<\/strong> to your droplet\u2019s IP. Then a CNAME entry to redirect the WWW to your domain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Having done these two things you need to wait for your domain's DNS to propagate, but now the most important decision has come. What system to use to manage your server without complications? <\/p>\n\n\n\n If you know how to use SSH and have experience with servers, very good, you can host the site however you want using whatever you want. But unfortunately not everyone knows or is not patient enough to deal with this. <\/p>\n\n\n\n That's why there are external sites that you can use to manage your Digital Ocean DROPLET. These sites install all PHP on your Droplet, offer SFTP and allow you to manage databases and install in one click scripts like WordPress<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The disadvantages are that it doesn't support things other than PHP and SQL, not even an email server, but you can do it manually, although we don't recommend clogging your server with unnecessary things that use processing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n My biggest recommendation goes to the Runcloud! <\/strong>There is even the option to install Runcloud in one click when creating the Droplet in Digital Ocean. There is a free plan and within the paid plans Runcloud is the most affordable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It is like a more simplified and optimized CPANEL to be ultra light and not to weigh your server. All you need to do before is to access SSH at least once to run code that installs the entire management platform. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Don't worry, you only win by using these external sites that serve as server managers. I started using the serverpilot<\/strong> what WAS<\/strong> free, but unfortunately he got paid and offered practically nothing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Then I met the Runcloud<\/a><\/strong> which in my opinion is the best and cheapest. With 8$<\/strong> you can manage a server and an unlimited number of domains and applications. The site also offers a backup system and many advantages that I will list below: <\/p>\n\n\n\n If you register on RunCloud<\/strong><\/a> using our referral link<\/strong><\/a>, you get 15 free days when you sign up for a plan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n For me the runcloud<\/a><\/strong> is the best and lightest option for those who want to manage a PHP site like WordPress, Magento, Joomla and others. It has never been easier to manage a server at Digital Ocean with speed, security and ease. <\/p>\n\n\n\n We have also written an article that talks more about Runcloud and how to configure it. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n The combination for better performance and less use of the server is to use Digital Ocean together with the Runcloud management panel with the website directed to Cloudflare's DNS, along with some cache plugin like wp-rocket. So it is possible to take 100\/100 out of vitals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you have not understood bulhufas of what I am talking about, I promise that in the future I will record several video lessons talking about these subjects and showing step by step how to configure these things. It took me years to join Cloudflare for fear of directing my DNS elsewhere. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The purpose of this subtitle is just to share the combination I use to make the site so fast. In addition I use WordPress on NGINX pure with runcloud<\/strong><\/em> server cache. I also activate the Jetpack image CDN<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Some want to avoid as much trouble and concern as possible. A company called Cloudways<\/strong><\/a> decided to make life easier for people who want to use the cloud server, but do not want to have any headaches. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Cloudways is a kind of managed hosting where you choose a server from Digital Ocean, Vultr, google, Linode or Amazon. You rent this hosting directly from Cloudways and you don't need to have an account or lose your mind on any of the other servers mentioned. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The advantage of Cloudways is that they offer many options for security and optimization of hosting. They have their own panel like Runcloud and offer many options to activate and deactivate in one click. They offer a separate email service and also a CDN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is a good system for those who want to make life easier, the big problem is its price, which gradually increases depending on the server hardware you are going to use. A $ 5 cloud at Digital Ocean costs $ 10 on Cloudways with everything to offer, but a $ 20 server from Digital Ocean costs $ 42. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This is a little unfair, whoever buys a cheaper server pays only $ 5 to use Cloudways, but if the person wants a robust server pays $ 22 for Cloudways services? If you intended to use a DO $ 5 Droplet, we recommend using Cloudways. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Use our Cloudways referral link<\/strong><\/a> to register and win a few free trial days. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I was very anxious to use Cloudways, but after a lot of indecision I ended up opting for runcloud<\/a><\/strong>, but I still recommend some to try Cloudways, especially if you want to avoid headaches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I hope you enjoyed our article on Digital ocean! In my opinion it is without a doubt the best cloud server or cloud hosting for websites. If you liked the article, share it, and also leave your doubts or opinions in the comments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n What did you think of Digital Ocean? Wait for many other articles on how to set up Digital Ocean, Runcloud, cloudways and other cloud hosting services can be found on my website. I\u2019m Kevin Henrique and I close this article on Best Cloud Hosting \u2013 Digital Ocean! <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nWhy did I choose Digital Ocean? <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Digital Ocean Services and Benefits<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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With Digital Ocean you have complete control<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Get $ 100 credit at Digital ocean<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Cloudways -An alternative that uses Digital Ocean<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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