Running urcli on a Digital Ocean server

This guide will show how to start a cloud server using Digital Ocean and run urcli in it. A cloud server is extremely useful if:

• you have issues with your internet connection or with your energy provider.
• you are always on the move.

From Wikipedia:

Digital Ocean provides developers cloud services that help to deploy and scale applications that run simultaneously on multiple computers.

Digital Ocean calls their servers droplets, and this guide shows how to start one.

For our purpose, we can use the cheapest droplet that cost, at the time of this writing, USD 5 per month. The creation of a new server is very straightforward, and you can use your credit on PayPal to buy credit on Digital Ocean. Tip: If you are setting up an account with your credit card, you can use the promo code LOWENDBOX to get USD 15.

If you are not familiar with any images available, I recommend going with Ubuntu.

Then, we need to do some initial configurations before getting urcli, which I recommend this tutorial if you picked Ubuntu as your image.

After all that, we are ready to get node. From this guide, we can install the version 6 of node by using:

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_6.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

Our next step is to get urcli:

npm -g install urcli

And set it up:

urcli setup

And you are ready to run it! 😄