Tutorials I have went through during deployment:

1. How To Use SSH Keys with PuTTY on DigitalOcean Droplets (Windows users)

2. Initial Server Setup with Ubuntu 14.04

   • Root login
   • Creating users
   • Root privileges
   • Public key authentication

3. Additional Recommended Steps for New Ubuntu 14.04 Servers

   • Firewall (allowing ports)
   • Timezones
   • NTP (allow your computer to stay in sync with other servers)
   • SWAP file

4. How To Install Node.js on an Ubuntu 14.04 server

   • Distro stable version (we are using this)
   • PPA
   • NVM

5. How To Use SFTP to Securely Transfer Files with a Remote Server

   • Navigating with SFTP in command line
   • Transferring files with SFTP

6. How To Set Up a Host Name with DigitalOcean

   • DO Domain servers
   • Configuring domain

7. How To Set Up a Node.js Application for Production on Ubuntu 16.04

   • Creating a NodeJS application
   • PM2
   • Installing Nginx as a Reverse Proxy Server
   • Installing Let’s Encrypt and Dependencies (in progress - at this point I need the digital ocean nameservers, which takes some time to be redirected)

8. pm2 calls node, not nodejs

   • Creating an alias
   • sudo ln -s "$(which nodejs)" /usr/bin/node
9. How To Set Up Automatic Deployment with Git with a VPS