Aside: Instances or Droplets?The examples in this guide happen to use DigitalOcean, which refers to their virtual machine hosts as "Droplets." When we use this term in an example or a screenshot, we're referring to what most other providers call "cloud compute instances." We'll typically say "an instance," but it's interchangable with "a Droplet" (or "a Linode" if Linode is your provider)