Set up instance

EC2 on AWS

Click Launch Instance from your EC2 dashboard.
Select the Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS (HVM), SSD Volume Type
Select an appropriate instance size (we recommend t2.medium/large, depending on team size and number of repositories/languages enabled), then Next: Configure Instance Details.
Select Next: ... until you get to the Configure Security Group page, then add a Custom TCP Rule rule with port range set to 8080 and source set to "Anywhere".

Rules with source of 0.0.0.0/0 allow all IP addresses to access your instance. We recommend setting security group rules to allow access from known IP addresses only.
Click Launch.
You will be prompted to create a key pair.
From the dropdown choose "create a new pair", give the key pair a name.
Click Download Key Pair and store the file in a safe place.
Click Launch Instances.
Head to your EC2 dashboard and choose instances from the left panel.
In the description of your EC2 instance copy the public DNS (iPv4) address using the copy to clipboard button.
Open a terminal on your computer and SSH into your instance:
```
ssh -i ${path to key pair} ubuntu@${public address}
```

DigitalOcean

Open your DigitalOcean dashboard to create a new droplet

Choose an image - Select the Distributions tab and then choose Ubuntu.
Choose a size - We recommend at least 4GB RAM and 2 CPU, more depending on team size and number of repositories/languages enabled.
Launch your instance.
Open a terminal on your computer and SSH into your instance:
```
ssh root@${instance ip}
```

Google Cloud

Pre-requisite: Set up the Google Cloud SDK on your local machine

Open your Google Cloud console to create a new VM instance and click Create Instance.
Choose an appropriate machine type (we recommend 2 vCPU and 7.5 GB RAM, more depending on team size and number of repositories/languages enabled).
Choose Ubuntu 16.04 LTS as your boot disk.
Expand the "Management, security, disks, networking, sole tenancy" section, go to the "Networking" tab, then under network tags add "code-server".
Create your VM, and take note of its public IP address.
Visit "VPC network" in the console and go to "Firewall rules". Create a new firewall rule called "http-8080". Under "Target tags" add "code-server", and under "Protocols and ports" tick "Specified protocols and ports" and "tcp". Beside "tcp", add "8080", then create the rule.
Open a terminal on your computer and SSH into your Google Cloud VM:
```
gcloud compute ssh --zone ${region} ${instance name}
```

Run code-server

Download the latest code-server release from the releases page to the instance, extract the file, then run the code-server binary:

wget https://github.com/cdr/code-server/releases/download/{version}/code-server{version}-linux-x64.tar.gz
tar -xvzf code-server{version}-linux-x64.tar.gz
cd code-server{version}-linux-x64
./code-server

Open your browser and visit http://$public_ip:8080/ where $public_ip is your instance's public IP address.
For long-term use, set up a systemd service to run code-server.

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