About the instructor

What you will do and what will you learn

Why a VPS

Creating an account at a VPS provider

Make sure you can use SSH on your system

Generating SSH keys to access the VPS safely

Creating your VPS with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Connecting to the VPS via SSH

Improving the SSH connection flow to the VPS

Keeping the connection active with the VPS server

Resolving an existing domain to the VPS server

How to explore and navigate paths in the VPS

File management (create, delete, move, copy and read)

Directory management (create, delete, move, copy and read)

Tricks to be agile on the command line with your VPS

How to restart the VPS server when required

Use apt to manage and upgrade the VPS packages

VPS services management with the systemctl command

How to establish SSH connections from the VPS

Execute recurring tasks on the VPS using Cronjobs

How to log into the VPS with the new user

How to manage user accounts in Ubuntu (create and delete)

Assigning and using administrative permissions in Ubuntu

Preventing the use of passwords and root to log in to the VPS

Setting up and using the UFW firewall in Ubuntu

Assigning permissions correctly in Ubuntu

Using Fail2Ban to prevent intruders on the VPS

Installing the Nginx web server on the VPS

Where is Nginx and its configuration located in the VPS

Setting up a subdomain on the VPS with Nginx

How Nginx manages to respond to requests

Establishing the first site in Nginx

Installing and securing the MySQL server on the VPS

Using SSH tunnels to interact with MySQL from your system

How to interact with MySQL from the VPS console

Preventing access to .htaccess and .git files

Hiding the Nginx signature in responses

Enabling compression in Nginx with Gzip

Preventing Nginx sites from being hijacked

Avoiding different types of web attacks on Nginx sites

Mitigating DoS and DDoS attacks on Nginx

About Letsencrypt and Certbot

Install Certbot to obtain security certificates with Letsencrypt

Obtaining Letsencrypt security certificates with Certbot

Reviewing and understanding the changes made by Certbot on the VPS

Understanding the use of HTTPS in Nginx and its configuration with Certbot

Checking the security and configuration of the domains in the VPS

Setting up Cloudflare and securing your projects

Get to know Cloudflare and use it as a DNS provider

Important steps and details when having Cloudflare

How to deploy and secure a new project in the VPS

Use the SCP command to transfer files and folders via SSH

How to Add and Secure a Completely New Domain to the VPS

Using wget to get files online to the VPS

Using Git to sync projects on the VPS

How to remove a site from the Internet and your VPS

Installing PHP FPM (Fast Processing Module) on the VPS

The important PHP files and locations in Ubuntu

Installing common PHP extensions on the VPS

Installing composer on the VPS

Knowing and obtaining WP-CLI for WordPress projects

Adding the structure of a pure PHP website on the VPS

Creating a subdomain and a site for a PHP project on the VPS

Deploying and installing WordPress on the VPS

Obtaining the WordPress structure and preparing the VPS with WP-CLI

Deploy a new subdomain for Wordpress

Adding a new site for Laravel and preparing the VPS

Getting a Laravel project on the VPS from a repository on GitHub

Deploying and configuring the Laravel project on the VPS

Remember to keep your VPS updated

Apply what you have learned to anything you need in your VPS

Bonus lecture