Setup a Virtual Web Server using Linode or Digital Ocean

The “Setup a Virtual Web Server using Linode or Digital Ocean” course is designed to teach students how to create and manage a virtual web server using Linode or Digital Ocean, two popular cloud hosting providers. This course is ideal for beginners who want to learn how to set up and manage their own web server for hosting websites or web applications.

The course covers everything from setting up an account and launching a new virtual server, to configuring the server’s security, installing software, and deploying a website. Students will also learn how to use command-line tools like SSH and Linux shell commands to manage their server. With practical examples, expert guidance, and hands-on exercises, this course will help students become proficient in setting up and managing a virtual web server using Linode or Digital Ocean.

By the end of the course, students will have a solid understanding of the process of setting up and managing a virtual web server, and will be able to confidently deploy and manage their own web applications in the cloud.

Setup a Virtual Web Server using Linode or Digital Ocean Course Description

This course offers an in-depth, hands-on overview of setting up and configuring a production web server, using Linode or Digital Ocean. Virtual Cloud Servers have become the industry standard for hosting web applications of all sizes and complexity. This includes small static web pages, to dynamic, database driven web sites that handle thousands of simultaneous processes. Regardless of the project, virtual servers offer a solution that provides web developers a scalable infrastructure that can easily adapt to a changing environment.

The course starts with an overview of the registration process on Linode. From there, students quickly jump into deploying and configuring a server using the latest Ubuntu LTS distribution. Students will become familiar with the Linode admin interface, and start executing basic commands using the web based remote access console. We then explore remote access administration using more complex tools such as PuTTY for Windows, and Terminal for MAC.

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Students will install and configure LAMP Stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PhpMyAdmin) on the Ubuntu server. We show students how to secure the server through SSH Authentication, directory permissions, and disable root user access.

The course explores remote visual desktop configuration using TightVNC & RealVNC.

Once students have a firm handle on server configuration on Linode, we take a look at another major cloud provider – Digital Ocean. This section of the course provides an overview of the Digital Ocean Admin panel where students will deploy and configure a “Droplet”. We will explore some of the unique features Digital Ocean offers, such as Floating IP’s and Space storage.

Students learn to backup, resize, and configure DNS Zone files on both cloud hosting providers.