How to set up my cloud/vps server using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Apache, MSQL, Phpmyadmin, PHP

Posted August 18, 2013
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I am new member in digitalocean, please tell me how to set up my cloud/vps server in the first time when i have bought the package, i am planning using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Apache, MSQL, Phpmyadmin, PHP

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pablo • August 18, 2013

Start, here: <a href=“https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/initial-server-setup-with-ubuntu-12-04”>Initial Server Setup with Ubuntu 12.04</a>. If you’re connecting to your droplet from a Windows machine, you’ll be interested in: <a href=“https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-create-ssh-keys-with-putty-to-connect-to-a-vps”>How to Create SSH Keys with PuTTY to Connect to a VPS</a>. If you’re going to be serving a lot of static content, you’ll get better performance from Nginx w/caching vs. Apache. See <a href=“https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-install-wordpress-nginx-php-and-varnish-on-ubuntu-12-04”>How to Install Wordpress, Nginx, PHP, and Varnish on Ubuntu 12.04</a>. If yours is going to be a high-traffic site, you definitely want to go w/a multi-core droplet w/memcached for MySQL: <a href=“https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-install-and-use-memcache-on-ubuntu-12-04”>How to Install and Use Memcache on Ubuntu 12.04</a>. If you’re interested in open-source (i.e. free) alternatives to IPBoard, check out: <a href=“https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-install-vanilla-forums-on-ubuntu-12-10”>How to Install Vanilla Forums on Ubuntu 12.10</a> or <a href=“http://www.discourse.org/”>Discourse</a>.