Explore how a droplet from Digital Ocean provides a dedicated computer with a public IP address for hosting a website, including DNS resolution and optional domain setup.

Select an operating system image for your DigitalOcean droplet and choose a plan—standard, general purpose, CPU-optimized, or memory-optimized—considering shared CPU and data transfer limits.

Select a DigitalOcean data center region to host your machine, with options in New York, San Francisco, Amsterdam, Singapore, London, Frankfurt, Toronto, and Bangalore for faster networks.

Learn how to set up a Digital Ocean droplet, enable optional features like IPv6 and monitoring, configure SSH authentication with key pairs, and use the assigned IP address to connect.

Learn how to SSH into a DigitalOcean droplet, authenticate with private keys, set up Nginx, and verify a basic web server serving the droplet's IP.

Enable droplet usage metrics by turning on monitoring, installing the metrics agent, and setting up a free cpu alert via email or slack while stress testing.

Protect your DigitalOcean droplet by using the platform firewall to block unwanted traffic at the network layer four before it reaches your instance.

Understand inbound and outbound firewall rules on DigitalOcean; allow http traffic on port 80, keep essential updates reachable, and block all other traffic to protect your web site.

Create your first VPC on DigitalOcean by selecting a region and configuring a private IP range. Learn private networking among droplets using private IPs instead of the public internet.

Learn how droplets in a DigitalOcean VPC communicate using private IP addresses for inter-droplet networking, avoiding internet exposure.

Explore DigitalOcean snapshots, an essential cloud provider feature used on my own sites, with detailed explanations and practical examples.

Learn how DigitalOcean snapshots create on-demand, bit-for-bit copies of droplets, enabling you to restore or clone a running instance cheaply instead of rebuilding it.

Create your first snapshot of a DigitalOcean droplet by powering off and naming it. Preserve the OS and data; replicate across data centers; downloads are not available.

Restore a droplet from a snapshot by selecting the snapshot; the image preserves the operating system and prior setup, while size and region constraints apply.

Explore DigitalOcean spaces, which uses the S3 API to provide compatible storage, enabling swift migration for users while highlighting data transfer costs.

Create your first space on DigitalOcean and select a region (Singapore, Amsterdam, or San Francisco). Enable CDN caching and file listing to optimize access.

Upload files to spaces, set private or public access, preview and rename or delete files, and manage public sharing and cache refresh within DigitalOcean’s object storage.

Digital Ocean uses the S3 API to manage object storage, showing public file listing in spaces with name, last modified, etag, size, and standard storage class; learn to restrict access.

Discover how private files in Digital Ocean work and grant timed access with signed URLs, using expiration and signatures to control who can view content.

Conclude the DigitalOcean cloud platform fundamentals course by reflecting on exploring your first cloud, DigitalOcean features, and setting up your own four servers, with a look to future courses.