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Posted by Seth Barthen
Seth Barthen
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Setting up VM on DigitalOcean Droplet to work properly with ServerPilot?

Hello All,

I'm currently using (and loving) a Digital Ocean Droplet(VPS) with ServerPilot to host my WordPress sites. However, I have run into an issue. I cannot have multiple websites on my Droplet because of the one IP address.

So I was advised to create VMs within my Droplet so that I can host multiple sites. The challenge I am having is how I should set those VMs up. There are two guides for Digital Ocean, one to setup a VM for Apache and one for Nginx.

From my understanding, ServerPilot utilizes both Apahce and Nginx. This is where my question comes in.. should I be setting up the VMs with Apache or Nginx? I do want to utilize Nginx because it seems soooo fast, but I also don't want to jack up my server.

Please help!

Thanks, Seth