Completely new to this, and have few questions before comitting
I have had a look at the Digital Ocean tonight and it seems ok, albeit a little daunting due to being new to this sort of thing(only used hosting from Arvixe, via cPanel), but from guides i reasonably quickly got a ‘dummy’ version of my site going as a trial reasonably quickly, much to my surprise! Although i appreciate i haven’t got a email server ‘installed’ or loaded SSL etc, so its not excatly how my current site it, but as a test i would class it as a success and was encouraging.
Can i just ask a couple of questions?
If i went this route and once all my sites are running, would i have to do any ‘maintenance’ to it. Or once it is set up, its set up for good and in theory i would not have to do anything…?? Just like i would with my current host?
Can i run more than one website on a single droplet? Currently i installed the Wordpress Droplet as one of my sites is Wordpress. However the other site isnt wordpress, so i assume i would have to set it up different..?
I have seen you can install panels like things called sentora and vesta which i guess would make it more like im used to. Is there any benefit to doing it this way, apart from visually making it easier for me to set things up, as have no real knowledge of setting up servers?
Security, would i have to do anything to make it secure, or is it secure out the box?
How easily could i(if needed) scale up my droplets?