h1. Using Amazon Web Services Logged into aws.amazon.com with my Amazon account, which I then used to create an AWS account. Created an EC2 instance. I choose Ubuntu 14.04. During the process, I had to create a key pair name. AWS created a private key, which I downloaded. It was a .pem file. I moved the .pem file to another directory on my local Linux machine at home. From within this directory, I used ssh to connect to my EC2 account, using the command line instructions provided by AWS's web interface. It's a fairly clean or empty Linux machine, as with my Digital Ocean Droplet account. I chose to install Nginx first. http://jothut.com/cgi-bin/junco.pl/blogpost/21154/14May2015/Installing-nodejs-nginx-mysql-junco-and-ghost-on-Digital-Ocean-Droplet#Installing-Nginx http://jothut.com/cgi-bin/junco.pl/blogpost/71676/05Jul2016/Installing-thttpd-and-tor-to-create-a-onion-website http://voidcanvas.com/setup-and-configure-nginx-in-aws-ec2-linuxubuntu-instance/ * sudo apt-get update * sudo apt-get install nginx * sudo service nginx start