1 00:00:00,074 --> 00:00:05,597 [MUSIC] 2 00:00:05,597 --> 00:00:08,399 If you wanna set up a web server, you have a few different options. 3 00:00:08,399 --> 00:00:11,130 You could go with shared hosting. 4 00:00:11,130 --> 00:00:14,900 Now that's very cheap, but it does not provide a lot of flexibility. 5 00:00:14,900 --> 00:00:16,620 On the other end of the spectrum, you could 6 00:00:16,620 --> 00:00:19,560 rent or buy your own server and have it hosted. 7 00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:22,340 That, however does cost quite a bit of money and will cause 8 00:00:22,340 --> 00:00:25,420 a lot of pain and frustration as you try to manage it. 9 00:00:25,420 --> 00:00:29,340 In between you have the VPS, or virtual private server. 10 00:00:29,340 --> 00:00:30,915 It offers all the benefits of having 11 00:00:30,915 --> 00:00:34,220 your own server that you can install anything you want on, 12 00:00:34,220 --> 00:00:38,900 however the hardware itself has virtualized making it a great value. 13 00:00:38,900 --> 00:00:41,070 We'll be setting up a virtual private server with Linode. 14 00:00:41,070 --> 00:00:43,960 One of my favorite VPS providers. 15 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:48,170 To get started we go to linode.com and click on Sign Up. 16 00:00:48,170 --> 00:00:51,290 Then all we have to do is give our username and password. 17 00:00:51,290 --> 00:00:53,550 And type in our billing information. 18 00:00:53,550 --> 00:00:55,920 After we do that, we need to select our plan. 19 00:00:55,920 --> 00:01:00,090 Linode provides several different plans at different price points and power levels. 20 00:01:00,090 --> 00:01:02,840 We're gonna be choosing the Linode 1024 because it's 21 00:01:02,840 --> 00:01:05,190 about the size that I want for my server. 22 00:01:05,190 --> 00:01:08,300 You can resize your Linode later on if you want, there will be a little bit 23 00:01:08,300 --> 00:01:10,540 of downtime though, so I'm going to choose 24 00:01:10,540 --> 00:01:14,050 Linode 1024, and then we choose our payment term. 25 00:01:14,050 --> 00:01:15,970 We can go month to month, but if we pay a 26 00:01:15,970 --> 00:01:20,060 year or for two years, we can get a nice little discount. 27 00:01:20,060 --> 00:01:21,130 Then all we need to do 28 00:01:21,130 --> 00:01:23,490 is click on Continue to sign up. 29 00:01:23,490 --> 00:01:25,930 Your account should be activated right away, or 30 00:01:25,930 --> 00:01:28,230 it might just take a couple of minutes. 31 00:01:28,230 --> 00:01:30,440 Now that your account has been activated, we're gonna 32 00:01:30,440 --> 00:01:33,139 go back to Linode.com and click on Log in. 33 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:36,650 We'll type in our username and password. 34 00:01:39,720 --> 00:01:43,350 Once we sign in, we'll have to choose a data center for our server to live in. 35 00:01:43,350 --> 00:01:45,470 There are many of them available throughout the world, 36 00:01:45,470 --> 00:01:47,620 and which one you choose is up to you. 37 00:01:47,620 --> 00:01:49,890 You may choose the one that is nearest to you or 38 00:01:49,890 --> 00:01:53,900 nearest to where your customers who might be accessing your servers live. 39 00:01:53,900 --> 00:01:56,510 I'm gonna choose Atlanta because I'm on the east coast 40 00:01:56,510 --> 00:01:59,640 of the United States and that's the nearest one to me. 41 00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:02,010 I'll just click place the Linode here. 42 00:02:02,010 --> 00:02:05,200 Now it's going to take us to the Rebuild tab for our Linode. 43 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:07,080 This is where we'll set up and provision our 44 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:10,530 server with the operating system options that we want. 45 00:02:10,530 --> 00:02:13,540 The first thing that we need to choose is our distribution. 46 00:02:13,540 --> 00:02:15,695 I'm going to suggest that we use Ubuntu 47 00:02:15,695 --> 00:02:21,090 12.04 LTS and I'm gonna choose it in 64-bit. 48 00:02:21,090 --> 00:02:25,905 If you don't know which Linux distribution you want, Ubuntu is a good choice. 49 00:02:25,905 --> 00:02:30,300 12.04 was released in early 2012, and the LTS means it's 50 00:02:30,300 --> 00:02:34,240 a long-term provided Linux version, which means that this particular 51 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:38,290 version of Ubuntu will be supported for a couple of years. 52 00:02:38,290 --> 00:02:40,640 Then we choose our deployment disk size. 53 00:02:40,640 --> 00:02:42,300 By default, it's going to use the entire 54 00:02:42,300 --> 00:02:44,660 disk of our Linode for this operating system. 55 00:02:44,660 --> 00:02:46,290 That's probably a good default. 56 00:02:46,290 --> 00:02:50,590 As well as a swap disk, we also recommend use the default provided to you. 57 00:02:50,590 --> 00:02:52,040 The last thing we need is to choose our 58 00:02:52,040 --> 00:02:55,310 root password, which we'll use to log into our system. 59 00:02:55,310 --> 00:02:56,180 Let me just set it up. 60 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:01,570 Once you've got all the options just click Rebuild, and it will build your server. 61 00:03:02,750 --> 00:03:06,030 Then all we need to do is wait for Linode to build our server for us. 62 00:03:06,030 --> 00:03:07,670 This will take a few minutes, but you can 63 00:03:07,670 --> 00:03:10,980 track its status on the dashboard page for your Linode, 64 00:03:10,980 --> 00:03:12,840 once the provisioning is completed, all we need to 65 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:15,770 do is click on Boot to start up our Linode. 66 00:03:15,770 --> 00:03:17,870 Click OK, and it'll start up your server. 67 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:21,370 The next thing we need to do is log in to our Linode.