I just wrote a guide on how to deploy Mastodon on Digital Ocean:

http://digitalmind.io/post/deploying-mastodon-on-digital-ocean

I hope you guys will find it useful!

Let me know if you have any questions/suggestions. I'll be happy to help, or clarify things that are unclear.

@Gargron @Support #NeedHelp #Mastodon #Instances

@rayalez Nice! Submit your article for publication on DigitalOcean, it'd definitely be welcomed: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/get-paid-to-write
@jon Awesome, thank you for the idea!
@rayalez @Support @Gargron It'd be nice if the website would be more than a white screen when scripts are disallowed. :(
@rayalez This is awesome. Thank you.
@rayalez Correction: No need to open the settings.yml file, it provides defaults. Those settings are dynamically editable from admin UI!
@Gargron Oh, thanks, I didn't know that!
@rayalez Great guide! Small critique: you may want to change "grant him the sudo powers" to something more gender-neutral. Thanks for making an awesome resource.
@Gargron @Support @rayalez This is great! Some info about performance and max number of users different tiers of droplet can likely handle would be useful for those taking the plunge.
@rayalez @Gargron @Support why are you manual creating the DB? The docker-compose file does that for you, no? You also forgot about the streaming API URL. Without it, the federation column will have to be manually refreshed.
@rayalez Will it run on the cheapest droplet or what's the minimum resources you'd recommend if your only aiming for 10 users?
@Zopha HackerTribe runs on $10/mo droplet for now. Should work fine for 10 users. Haven't tried running Mastodon on $5/mo.