DigitalOcean

Use a Droplet (a small virtual server). DigitalOcean’s App Platform doesn’t keep files between deploys, so it can’t hold the hub’s data.

1. Create → Droplets. Choose:

   • region: Singapore (or the one nearest the shop);
   • image: Ubuntu 24.04;
   • size: the smallest Basic plan is plenty (512 MB or 1 GB of memory);
   • authentication: an SSH key.

2. Under Advanced options → Add initialization scripts (user data), paste the contents of deploy/digitalocean/cloud-init.yaml. It runs the Linux installer on first boot.

3. Create the Droplet. After two or three minutes, open http://<droplet IP>:8080 and choose Set up a new shop. The setup code:

   ssh root@<droplet IP> 'journalctl -u openkedai | grep "Setup code"'

Without the user data step, you can SSH in and run the installer yourself: curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OpenKedai/openkedai/main/deploy/install.sh | sh.

Next steps

• Put the hub behind HTTPS with a domain name: HTTPS and remote access. Then set OPENKEDAI_PUBLIC_URL so pairing codes use it.
• Turn on DigitalOcean’s weekly backups for the Droplet, or the hub’s own copies to S3-compatible storage (DigitalOcean Spaces works).
• Updating, settings and logs: see Linux installer.