Mining an Urbit Coming on Digital Ocean

# How to Self Host a Comet on Digital Ocean

[Urbit Instructions](https://urbit.org/using/install/)

[Digital Ocean Hosting](https://urbit.org/using/operations/hosting/)

**INSTRUCTIONS HERE**

1. Create Digital Ocean account - $100 Free Link - https://m.do.co/c/cd1af03ce428
2. Create droplet with the following settings:

**Image:** Ubuntu 20.04x64

**Plan:** 4GB RAM

**Authentication:** Password - *create root password*

**Choose a hostname:** This can be anything, call it "mycomet"

3. Click into the droplet and `open Console`
4. login: `root` -- password: `PASSWORDCREATED`
5. `adduser mycomet` -- *make new password or do same as root, ur choice*

*skip all questions*

6. `usermod -aG sudo mycomet`
7. `rsync --archive --chown=mycomet:mycomet ~/.ssh /home/mycomet`
8. Check firewall  `$ sudo ufw app list`
9. Configure ufw to allow connections via ssh and to use standard web port

`$ sudo ufw allow OpenSSH`

`$ sudo ufw allow www`

`$ sudo ufw allow 34543/udp`

10. Turn on the firewall `$ sudo ufw enable`
11. Type `exit` into console
12. Log in with new user just created
13. Make directory, install, and permit it to bind to the web port:

`$ mkdir urbit`

`$ cd urbit`

`$ wget --content-disposition https://urbit.org/install/linux64/latest`

`$ tar zxf ./linux64.tgz --strip=1`

`$ sudo setcap 'cap_net_bind_service=+ep' urbit`

14. Booting the comet `$ ./urbit -c mycomet`

When your ship is finished booting, you will see either the ~sampel_marzod:dojo> or ~sampel_marzod:chat-cli/ prompt

15. Mounting your comet `$ |mount %`
16. Getting your code `$ +code`
17. Go to web browser and copy paste the digital ocean droplet IP
18. Enter `code` from dojo into web browser
19. Close DO console
20. Click `Join a Group` and enter ~winder-dapsym/urchan

**long load is normal**

21. Welcome to freedom

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