Custom Kernel On a DigitalOcean Droplet

A few days ago I decided to create a VPS, known as a “droplet”, with DigitalOcean. They claim a deployment time of 55 seconds. And 55 seconds after hitting the button I had a Debian 7 x64 droplet running. The plan was to migrate my current VPS to this DigitalOcean droplet. The first task I always undertake with any Linux deployment is to create a custom stripped down kernel patched