Servers & VPS — Knowledge Base

What Is a VPS? Who Needs One, and When to Switch?

What a VPS (virtual private server) is, how it differs from shared hosting, when you should move to a VPS and what to know before you do.

First VPS Setup: SSH Connection, Root Password, the First 10 Minutes

You have a new VPS — now what? Connecting with SSH, changing the root password, updating the system and the first security steps.

Connecting to a Server with an SSH Key (Windows, Mac, Linux)

Use an SSH key instead of a password: generating a key pair, adding the public key to the server and disabling password login — for every operating system.

Installing Nginx + PHP + MySQL on Ubuntu (LEMP Stack)

A step-by-step LEMP install on a fresh Ubuntu server: Nginx, PHP-FPM, MariaDB, defining a virtual host and SSL with Let's Encrypt.