Launch a new instance of EC2 in the AWS console
Select an Ubuntu server
Select a t3.medium or higher and click Next
Select the VPC under Network that contains any database and/or APIs the Basedash server should be able to connect to and click Next
Increase your storage size to 40 GB or higher and click Next
Optionally add some Tags (e.g. app = basedash) and click Next. This makes it easier to find if you have a lot of instances.
Set the network security groups for ports 80, 443, 22 and 5000, with sources set to Anywhere ( 0.0.0.0/0 and ::/0), and click Review and Launch. We need to open ports 80 (http) and 443 (https) so you can connect to the server from a browser, as well as port 22 (ssh) so that you can ssh into the instance to configure it and run Basedash. By default on a vanilla EC2, Basedash will run on port 5000.
On the Review Instance Launch screen, click Launch to start your instance.
Create a new SSH key pair (or use an existing one), and download the it. This will be used to SSH into the EC2 instance.
If you're connecting to internal databases, whitelist the VPS's IP address in your database.
From your command line tool, SSH into your EC2 instance. You'll need to use the SSH .pem file you've downloaded. See screenshot for instructions.
You might have a different mechanism for passing your SSH keys (e.g. a jump proxy) or you might re-use a key pair that you've already created for your VPC.