1. in your DigitalOcean account setup your droplet with your desired OS and configuration.
2. Setup the droplet with the desired stack. I personally use LEMP

• https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-wordpress-with-lemp-on-ubuntu-16-04

1. Migrate all the site files from your Clourdways server to your new DigitalOcean droplet. This can be done via an FTP client or a shell command like scp

• example: scp -r username@cloudways_server_ip:/path/to/web/root /path/to/new/webroot

update the red entries to reflect your configurations

1. export your mysql database from the cloudways using a client such as phpMyAdmin if available or a shell command like mysqldump

• example: `mysqldump -p’wordpressdbpassword’ -u’wordpressdbuser’ wordpressdbname > dbexport.sql

update the red entries to reflect your configurations - your wordpress database info can be found in the wp-config.php file.

1. Import database to the new droplet using a client like phpMyAdmin if available - if not available you can install it onto your new droplet

• https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-secure-phpmyadmin-on-ubuntu-16-04

.. or via the command line like so “mysq -p’wordpressdbpassword’ -u’wordpressdbuser’ wordpressdbname < dbexport.sql

update the red entries to reflect your configurations

In either case you will need to move the dbexport.sql file to a location off the server to be able to access it.

Here is a case study that you can reference as well.

http://radivis.com/how-i-migrated-my-wordpress-blog-to-digital-ocean-in-about-6-steps/