How to use DigitalOcean as a VPS for a GTA V FiveM Server?

Hello,

First you will have to connect to your Droplet via SSH, here’s how you could do that:

https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/droplets/how-to/connect-with-ssh/

Then once you’ve logged into the droplet you can follow the Linux steps from the official site on how to install the software:

• Create a new folder (for example mkdir /home/username/server).
• Download the latest master branch build for Linux from the artifacts server(copy the URL for the latest server version and use wget <url> to download it).
• Extract the build using cd path/to/server/folder && tar xf fx.tar.xz (you need to have xz installed, on Debian/Ubuntu this is in the xz-utils package).
• Clone cfx-server-data in a new folder (other than your FXServer folder). For example git clone https://github.com/citizenfx/cfx-server-data.git /home/username/server-data
• Make a server.cfg file in your server-data folder (copy the example server.cfg file below into that file).
• Generate a license key at https://keymaster.fivem.net.
• Set the license key in your server.cfg using sv_licenseKey "licenseKeyGoesHere".
• Run the server from the server-data folder:

bash /home/username/server/run.sh +exec server.cfg

Hope that this helps! Regards, Bobby