Hi, I am thinking of the following setup with just one droplet: a. test.[mydomainhere].com //a private test website for my own eyes onlyb. temp.[mydomainhere].com //a temporary website to showcase what I want to do to the public, will be powered by Wordpress and eventually be shut down in favour of something a bit more permanentc. [mydomainhere].com //the actual website once I am readyd. [any other websites in case I need them] So, here’s my questions about it: Will VirtualHosts be enough to create such a setup? Is it possible to partition my Droplet (like how you do so on your hard disk drive) so that each website get their own sub-Droplet? Will uninstalling Wordpress affect the entire Droplet (and therefore the other websites)? What is the difference between the desktop and the server versions when it comes to OSes? (Or rather, am I right to say that the main difference is that the desktop is easier to use due to the inclusion of a GUI but the server is more suited for webhosting?) Am I right to say that I should just stick to a x32 OS since I have only 512 MB of RAM on my Droplet? Thanks!

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Multiple Websites on a Droplet (and Other Queries)

Posted on May 10, 2013

Hi, I am thinking of the following setup with just one droplet:

a. test.[mydomainhere].com //a private test website for my own eyes only b. temp.[mydomainhere].com //a temporary website to showcase what I want to do to the public, will be powered by Wordpress and eventually be shut down in favour of something a bit more permanent c. [mydomainhere].com //the actual website once I am ready d. [any other websites in case I need them]

So, here’s my questions about it:

Will VirtualHosts be enough to create such a setup?
Is it possible to partition my Droplet (like how you do so on your hard disk drive) so that each website get their own sub-Droplet?
Will uninstalling Wordpress affect the entire Droplet (and therefore the other websites)?
What is the difference between the desktop and the server versions when it comes to OSes? (Or rather, am I right to say that the main difference is that the desktop is easier to use due to the inclusion of a GUI but the server is more suited for webhosting?)
Am I right to say that I should just stick to a x32 OS since I have only 512 MB of RAM on my Droplet?

Thanks!

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Kamal Nasser

May 17, 2013

@victoriousrock see my comment on https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-set-up-a-host-name-with-digitalocean

Kamal Nasser

May 14, 2013

@victoriousrock A separate user for each website is generally more secure as long as your permissions restrict other users from writing and/or reading other users’ files.

Kamal Nasser

May 14, 2013

You can use one user for all virtualhosts, and it’ll work perfectly fine.