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J. BartlettBuilding Scalable PHP Web Applications Using the Cloudhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5212-3_3

3. Setting Up a Cloud Server

Jonathan Bartlett1 
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Tulsa, OK, USA
 

As with most cloud providers, setting up a cloud server on Linode is extremely simple. This chapter shows you the basic process to get something up and running, with screenshots.

3.1 Creating Your Virtual Server

Hopefully, if you are a web developer or manager, you can sign up for the Linode service without too much trouble. It requires a credit card up front, but you will find the costs of running everything in this book are likely less than the book itself, assuming that you turn off your services when you are done with them.

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