This will be a documentation of moving a website from GoDaddy shared hosting to Digital Ocean droplet.  Any other cloud hosting service should work with variation in the server creation on the cloud system.  For example other services such as Linode etc.  Note that Digital Ocean calls their virtual machines droplets, other providers will have a different name.

While documenting this process I moved the domain 09flhrc.com from GoDaddy shared hosting to a Digital Ocean Droplet. The IP address assigned to the droplet is 143.110.204.149

see git config

git config --list

initialize

git init

Check status and see what branch you are on

git status

Rename the branch using the move option (-m):

git branch -m <new-name>

add files to staging

git add .

you can also add just a file

git add file.txt

push local commit to remote (Github)

git remote -v

git remote add origin https://github.com/tipnmog/tipnmogblog.git
git branch -M main
git push -u origin main

Steps to Remove the Origin Remote

Btrfs (B-tree file system) is a modern, copy-on-write (CoW) filesystem for Linux designed for high scalability, fault tolerance, and easy administration. It supports advanced features like snapshots, data compression, and built-in RAID. It is widely used in Linux distributions (e.g., Fedora) and enterprise NAS systems for data integrity.

zram: Zram (formerly compcache) is a Linux kernel module that creates a compressed, RAM-based block device, acting as a faster alternative to traditional swap. By compressing data in memory (typically at a 3:1 ratio), it allows systems to store more data in RAM, significantly reducing disk I/O and enhancing responsiveness on low-memory devices.

The Linux kernel includes the Netfilter subsystem, which is used to manipulate or decide the fate of network traffic headed into or through your server. All modern Linux firewall solutions use this system for packet filtering.

The kernel’s packet filtering system would be of little use to administrators without a userspace interface to manage it. This is the purpose of the **iptables** utility: when a packet reaches your server, it will be handed off to the Netfilter subsystem for acceptance, manipulation, or rejection based on the rules supplied to it from the userspace (via iptables). Thus, iptables is all you need to manage your firewall, if you’re familiar with it, but many are available to simplify the task. We’ll take a look at the default frontend used in Ubuntu here.

Generate an SSH Key

With OpenSSH, an SSH key is created using ssh-keygen. In the simplest form, just run ssh-keygen and answer the questions. The following example illustates this.

# ssh-keygen 

Generating public/private rsa key pair. Enter file in which to save the key (/home/ylo/.ssh/id_rsa): mykey 

Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):  

Enter same passphrase again:  

Your identification has been saved in mykey. Your public key has been saved in mykey.pub.