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Digital Ocean Installer

On this page, we explain step by step how to install CloudPanel on Digital Ocean.

Launching a Droplet#

  1. Login to your Digital Ocean account.

  2. In the left navigation, click on Droplets and then on Create Droplet.

Choose an image#

Select Ubuntu 22.04 or Debian 11 as OS Image.

Choose an image

Droplet Size#

Choose the size of your Droplet, e.g., Premium AMD with NVMe SSD.

Droplet Size

Datacenter Region#

Choose the Datacenter Region where you want to run your Droplet.

Datacenter Region

Authentication Method#

Select your Authentication Method, SSH keys or Password.
How to create an SSH Key, is explained on the site: How-to Add SSH Keys to New or Existing Droplets

Authentication Method

Finalize and Create#

Enter a hostname, and click on the button Create Droplet to launch your Droplet.

Finalize and Create

Assigning a Reserved IP#

A Reserved IP (static ip) is highly recommended to have the same IP after changing the size of your Droplet.

To create a Reserved IP, do the following steps:

  1. In the left navigation, click on Networking.

  2. Select your Droplet and click on the button Assign Reserved IP.

Assigning a Reserved IP

Install CloudPanel#

After launching the Droplet, log in with SSH and run the installer script.

  1. Login via SSH to the Droplet.
ssh -i path_to_your_private_key root@yourIpAddress
  1. Update the system and install the required packages.
apt update && apt -y upgrade && apt -y install curl wget sudo
  1. Run the installer with your preferred Database Engine.
curl -sS https://installer.cloudpanel.io/ce/v2/install.sh -o install.sh; \echo "e0838864b7376b0390b4855d8d5c1425d83edffb38d2c980cf5b1c1a71d105bc install.sh" | \sha256sum -c && sudo CLOUD=do bash install.sh

Access CloudPanel#

Security

For security reasons, access CloudPanel as fast as possible to create the admin user. There is a small time window where bots can create the user. It's highly recommended to open port 8443 only for your IP via firewall.

You can now access CloudPanel via Browser: https://yourIpAddress:8443

Ignore the self-signed certificate warning and click on Advanced and Proceed to continue to CloudPanel.

Ignore Self-Signed Certificate