
If you have not already logged into your server, you may want to follow the first tutorial in this series, How to Connect to Your Droplet with SSH, which covers this process in detail. To log into your server, you will need to know your server’s public IP address and the password for the “root” user’s account.

This will increase the security and usability of your server and will give you a solid foundation for subsequent actions. When you first create a new server, there are a few configuration steps that you should take early on as part of the basic setup.
