After disabling root login, make sure you can SSH to your Droplet as the deploy user and use sudo

Thanks… I’ve removed my domain name now.

1. I started by using the DO console, so unstable I ran away to terminals on my local machines. That’s where I did the initial set up, installed LAMP, ruby and uninstall ruby when I realised deploying according to this tutorial is better for me. Currently I can’t get to shh log in on any of my local machines - I always get “permission denied ().” after 3 “incorrect password” but when I ftp:mydomain on my local machine, I do get in using the same password that ssh login says it’s incorrect.; So I got stuck and came back to DO console and that’s been a nightmare - unstable, unresponsive that I have not been able to do anything for past 24 hours.
2. I will try PuTTY.
3. I’m not confident that I have a public/private key pairing correctly.
4. I look forward to the chat-through

I am online and waiting for you whenever you’re ready… I left my domain name in the above reply, but I’ll delete it if you confirm that you have it already :)