====== Start Shared Hosting with cPanel, LiteSpeed, and Digital Ocean ======
You can start performance shared hosting with cPanel and LiteSpeed Web Server on Digital Ocean. Here's how.

===== Start an Instance =====

Log in to your Digital Ocean dashboard. Click **Create > Droplets**.

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Choose ''CentOS 7''. cPanel also supports CentOS 6.x, but its EOL is November 30, 2020.

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Choose a plan. cPanel requires a minimum of 1GB RAM on CentOS 7 and 768MB RAM on CentOS 6.

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Choose a location.

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Click **Create** at the bottom of the page. An e-mail with root password and IP will arrive in your e-mail inbox momentarily.

===== Set Up cPanel and LiteSpeed =====
The rest of these steps are the same for every provider. Please see [[litespeed_wiki:cpanel:set-up-shared-hosting|these instructions]] to continue.