Once the droplet is created using their very simple web portal, you get nothing more than a Linux box that you can access via SSH, VNC, or a terminal client like Putty (I installed Putty on my Windows machine using Chocolatey). I am able to get by with 1GB RAM AND 20gb storage, so the cost is $10 per month. I needed to move the app off of my own network which has plenty of internet and power outages throughout the year, so I decided to go with a cloud hosted option and chose Digital Ocean and one of their small “droplet” containers running a ready-to-use Ubuntu 14.04 system. It was my first real Rails app, and it still runs fine today as a contact management system for the 5-person distributed team who use it to track their ministry contacts and record various interactions they each have with their members. I began writing the app in April 2012, with small tweaks here and there each year since. The app is built on Rails 3.2.8, Bootstrap 2 UI, Ruby 1.9.3, and uses SqlLite for a local single-file database.
I’ve done it again… Needed to setup an Ubuntu machine to run a simple CRUD web app I maintain for a small ministry group.
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