I will set up your ubuntu vps for wordpress with nginx, php and SSL

You rented a $5 droplet, followed three different tutorials, and now you have a half-configured server, a site that loads only sometimes, and a nagging feeling that port 22 is wide open to the world.

I set it up properly once, so you can stop reading guides.

WHAT YOU GET

• Ubuntu LTS with Nginx, PHP-FPM and MariaDB, tuned for the RAM you actually have
• - WordPress installed and running on your domain
• - Free SSL that renews itself, HTTPS forced, HTTP/2 on
• - UFW firewall, SSH keys only, root login disabled, automatic security updates
• - Correct ownership and permissions, not everything running as root

WHY NOT JUST FOLLOW A TUTORIAL

Tutorials assume a clean machine and one use case. They skip what happens when the certificate fails to renew at 3am, when PHP-FPM runs out of workers, or when a plugin needs a directory the web user cannot write to. Those are the parts that bite months later, once you have forgotten what you did.

You also get a short handover document: what is installed, where the configs live, and how to do the things you will need most.

Any VPS with root SSH: Hetzner, DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, Contabo, OVH.

Tell me your provider and what has to run there.