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Deploying Ringq In Amazon Lightsail

Deploying RingQ in Amazon Lightsail 

Introduction

This guide walks you through deploying RingQ on Amazon Lightsail, a simple and cost-effective way to get your communications platform running in your cloud account. Lightsail is recommended for lightweight virtual server setups, making it ideal for hosting RingQ without the overhead of complex infrastructure management. By the end of this guide, you’ll have a fully functional RingQ instance deployed and ready to use.

Prerequisites

  • Have an Amazon Lightsail account.
  • Obtain a license key, and activate it in the RingQ Customer Portal

Purchase and Activate a License Key

Follow this guide to purchase and activate a license key.

Deploying RingQ on Amazon Lightsail

1. Navigate to https://lightsail.aws.amazon.com and log in. If you don’t already have an account, you will need to create one.

2. Go to Instances > Create instance.

Create a RingQ instance in Amazon Lightsail

Create a RingQ instance in Amazon Lightsail

Creating a RingQ instance in Amazon Lightsail

Creating a RingQ instance in Amazon Lightsail

3. In the Instance creation form:

  • Select the region where you want to create your RingQ installation, usually the one closest to you.
  • Select Linux/Unix platform and under Operating System (OS) only, select Debian 12.
  • Select a SSH Key. If you don’t have one, create one. Important! Make sure you save your Private Key, otherwise you might not be able to connect to your instance.
  • Choose Dual-stack network type.
  • For the instance size, for most installations 2 vCPUs / 2 GB RAM should suffice, but for larger installations choose either 2 vCPUs / 4 GB RAM or 4 vCPUs / 16GB RAM.
  • Set a name for your RingQ instance.

4. Press Create Instance.

RingQ Amazon Lightsail instance

RingQ Amazon Lightsail instance

5. Go back to the Instances menu and wait until your instance is Running, then click on the menu of your instance and select Manage.

Manage your RingQ instance on Amazon Lightsail

Manage your RingQ instance on Amazon Lightsail

6. Next, go to the Networking tab click on Attach static IP and then Create and attach.

RingQ settings on Amazon Lightsail

RingQ settings on Amazon Lightsail

7. Move further down in the Networking tab and create 2 new Firewall Rules:

  • All TCP
  • All UDP

8. Disable IPv6.

RingQ settings for Amazon Lightsail

RingQ settings for Amazon Lightsail

9. Go back to the Instances menu again and press the console button to open the terminal.

Amazon Lightsail terminal

Amazon Lightsail terminal

10. In the Console window that has opened, type the following commands:

  • sudo su
  • wget -O /usr/local/bin/ringq_installer.sh https://download-global.ringq.ai/ringq_installer.sh
  • chmod 777 /usr/local/bin/ringq_installer.sh
  • /usr/local/bin/ringq_installer.sh
Enter RingQ license key for Amazon Lightsail

Enter RingQ license key for Amazon Lightsail

11. In the prompt that appears, type in your RingQ License Key and press Enter. 12. Wait until the installation is finished and don’t close the window. The installation process can take up to 40 minutes.

RingQ license on Amazon Lightsail

RingQ license on Amazon Lightsail

12. Once the installation is complete, open your browser and navigate to the address displayed. If your browser shows you a warning, select the proceed option so that it takes you to the activation page.

RingQ license activation page

RingQ license activation page

13. Enter your RingQ License Key and press Activate.

RingQ license activation success on Amazon Lightsail

RingQ license activation success on Amazon Lightsail

14. Once the License Activation finishes, your RingQ installation is complete and you can access your instance!