Wordpress Server Setup, Part I

RackNerd's LEB offer provides several options of low cost KVM hosting solution. For Wordpress + MySQL, it works better with more RAM and CPU core.

About the Server

The server is provided by Racknerd with following spec:-

3.5Gb RAM
45Gb SSD storage
3 Cores CPU
Pre-installed with AlmaLinux 8.6

Install essential componets

packages: sudo, neovim, htop, python3, ufw, tmux, restic, rclone, tar, pigz, p7zip, croc, gcc

yum install --enablerepo="epel" ufw -y  # for ufw 
sudo yum update
sudo yum install neovim htop python3 ufw tmux restic rclone tar pigz p7zip croc gcc

Hardening

Some minor change has been applied for hardening the security

Add new user and grant with sudo right
Create ssh key for new user
Generate the private for putty format
Disable root and password login
Activate firewall (ufw)
Setup up additional acl for allowing 80 and 443

sudo usermod -aG sudo $USER
ssh-keygen -t ed25519 
sudo ufw allow 80/tcp
sudo ufw allow 443/tcp

Config .bashrc, .bash_aliases, and docker group

Config environments for easy usage
Create new group docker and dd non root user to the group

sudo groupadd docker
sudo usermod -aG docker $USER

Add package repository for docker

sudo yum install -y yum-utils
sudo yum-config-manager --add-repo https://download.docker.com/linux/centos/docker-ce.repo