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# Installing CONSUL on a Digital Ocean VPS
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These instructions will help you register and buy a server in Digital Ocean to install CONSUL.
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First you need to [sign up](https://cloud.digitalocean.com/registrations/new) and provide your personal information.
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Once you are logged in, you need to create a Droplet (that’s the name that Digital Ocean uses for a Virtual Server). Click on the “Create” green button at the top of the page and select "Droplets":
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In the next page, you need to select Ubuntu (it should be pre-selected) and change the version **from 18.04 x64 to 16.04 x64**.
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In the "Choose a size" section select the **$80/mo 16GB/6CPUs** option if this is going to be a production server. If you are just setting up a test system with a few users the cheapest $5/mo option can be enough.
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Leave the rest of the options with their defaults until “Choose a datacenter”. Select the one that will be geographically closer to your users. If you are in the EU, select either Frankfurt or Amsterdam data centers.
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In the "Add you SSH keys" section click "New SSH Key" button.
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In the pop up window that appears you need to copy and paste the public key that we [generated in the previous step](generating_ssh_key.md). To see the content of this key in the terminal window type:
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```
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cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
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```
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You should see a text like this:
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```
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ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQDy/BXU0OsK8KLLXpd7tVnqDU+d4ZS2RHQmH+hv0BFFdP6PmUbKdBDigRqG6W3QBexB2DpVcb/bmHlfhzDlIHJn/oki+SmUYLSWWTWuSeF/1N7kWf9Ebisk6hiBkh5+i0oIJYvAUsNm9wCayQ+i3U3NjuB25HbgtyjR3jDPIhmg1xv0KZ8yeVcU+WJth0pIvwq+t4vlZbwhm/t2ah8O7hWnbaGV/MZUcj0/wFuiad98yk2MLGciV6XIIq+MMIEWjrrt933wAgzEB8vgn9acrDloJNvqx25uNMpDbmoNXJ8+/P3UDkp465jmejVd/6bRaObXplu2zTv9wDO48ZpsaACP your_username@your_computer_name
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```
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Select and copy all the text and paste it in the pop-up window like this:
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Please note that there will be two little green checks. If they are not there, retry copying the text because you probably left something out. Give your key a meaningful name, like **CONSUL_key** and click "Add SSH Key" button.
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By using an SSH key instead of a user/password combination to access your server, it will be much more secure, as only someone with the private SSH key can access the server.
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Now in the "Choose a hostname" section change the default for something more meaningful, like **consulserver** for example.
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At the bottom of the page you’ll see a summary of your options. Check that everything is OK and click the big green "Create" button.
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It will take a few minutes, and at the end you will have a shiny new server. It will look like this in the Digital Ocean page:
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Next to setup CONSUL in the server check the [installer's README](https://github.com/consul/installer)
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