Lastly, pick a hostname for your server. This will appear in the administration panel of DigitalOcean, so pick something you can easily remember.
When you have many machines, it may be worth setting up a naming convention, where the name of the machine itself imparts information about how it is used. For example, your naming convention may be as follows:
[environment].[feature].[function][replica]
For example, if we have a machine that acts as a load balancer for an authorization service in the staging environment, its hostname may be staging.auth.lb1.
This is extremely useful when you log in to multiple servers using the terminal—they all look the same! The only way for you to figure out which machine you're working on ...
