it's pretty easy to setup a basic node on a vps (which is what i'm doing)
this is amusingly the guide i generally follow,
https://github.com/coincreator/tutorials/tree/master/tutorials/LinuxDaemonHostingthe important part is installing the correct libraries.
and it uses ubuntu, so the commands below will need to be changed slightly for other flavours of linux
obviously there are a few things to change, such as git address but it's pretty much the same.
edit. i added adding a swap file in, can be useful
its' down the bottom
here's a basic variation on that link which will be for dtc..
once your vps is started and you've logged in.1. update the vps OS and install libraries
2. get source code and start compiling
3. edit datacoin.conf -- generally i start the daemon first, then it closes with an error about needing this .conf file.
it will spit out an example rpcuser and rpcpassword details. i just copy/paste these into the conf. also copy/paste addnodes from below
4. start for real.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential libboost-all-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libdb5.1-dev libdb5.1++-dev make git
## look below at adding swap file, do it here
git clone https://github.com/foo1inge/datacoin.git
cd ~/datacoin/src/
make -f makefile.unix "USE_UPNP=-"
./datacoind &
touch /root/.datacoin/datacoin.conf
nano /root/.datacoin/datacoin.conf
## paste stuff, then to exit
[ctrl-x]
[y]
[enter]
./datacoind &
./datacoind getinfo
hopefully now your daemon will spit out some promising info that it is working, and connected !!
conf content - change username and password to yr whatever
rpcuser=useretc
rpcpassword=passwordofyourchoice
addnode=107.170.165.126
addnode=108.61.57.85
addnode=125.135.114.73
addnode=162.243.125.211
addnode=198.12.12.83
addnode=46.4.147.38
addnode=144.76.123.194
addnode=80.74.157.31
addnode=104.131.69.82
addnode=graymines.net:4777
adding a 1gb swap file. virtual ram basically, will help with some memory based compiling errors.
you may as well do this early in the procedure
dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1M count=1024
mkswap /swapfile
swapon /swapfile
## then to make it persistent, ie run on reboot you need to edit fstab
nano /etc/fstab
## then at bottom of file paste
/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0
[ctrl-x],[y],[enter]
note. lines with ## are not to be entered.