Step By Step – Setting Up WordPress on a VPS for Beginners

Step By Step – Setting Up WordPress on a VPS for Beginners, available at $79.99, has an average rating of 4.55, with 94 lectures, based on 20 reviews, and has 163 subscribers.

You will learn about From scratch, create a virtual private server instance Setup, from scratch, a VPS or dedicated Server Learn how to harden and optimize a VPS or dedicated server Install multiple WordPress sites on a VPS Harden and optimize a WordPress site from the server and application side Learn how to harden a WordPress site from the server side first and then install a security plugin. Optimize a WordPress site from the server side and then make use of a caching plugin. This course is ideal for individuals who are This course is meant for anyone who is tired of shared hosting and wants discover the benefits hosting their WordPress sites on a VPS or If WordPress site security concerns you – take this course as security comes FIRST and and not as an afterthought – you will secure your site using the server and not a plugin. or This course is for anyone who has received a warning from their shared host that their WordPress site is using too many server resources or This course is for anyone who wants to drastically improve the way they administer WordPress sites on a VPS or Anyone who wants to spend more time creating content and less time updating multiple WordPress sites using the dashboard? or Web designers who want to offer additional services to their clients or Anyone wanting to offer their services on fiverr setting up an unmanaged VPS and administering the VPS for a monthly fee or Business owners who want to setup WordPress on their own server or Anyone who wants to learn the best and quickest way to setup a WordPress site. or Anyone who wants to be able to build WordPress sites quickly and easily It is particularly useful for This course is meant for anyone who is tired of shared hosting and wants discover the benefits hosting their WordPress sites on a VPS or If WordPress site security concerns you – take this course as security comes FIRST and and not as an afterthought – you will secure your site using the server and not a plugin. or This course is for anyone who has received a warning from their shared host that their WordPress site is using too many server resources or This course is for anyone who wants to drastically improve the way they administer WordPress sites on a VPS or Anyone who wants to spend more time creating content and less time updating multiple WordPress sites using the dashboard? or Web designers who want to offer additional services to their clients or Anyone wanting to offer their services on fiverr setting up an unmanaged VPS and administering the VPS for a monthly fee or Business owners who want to setup WordPress on their own server or Anyone who wants to learn the best and quickest way to setup a WordPress site. or Anyone who wants to be able to build WordPress sites quickly and easily.

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Summary

Title: Step By Step – Setting Up WordPress on a VPS for Beginners

Price: $79.99

Average Rating: 4.55

Number of Lectures: 94

Number of Published Lectures: 94

Number of Curriculum Items: 94

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 94

Original Price: $89.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

From scratch, create a virtual private server instance
Setup, from scratch, a VPS or dedicated Server
Learn how to harden and optimize a VPS or dedicated server
Install multiple WordPress sites on a VPS
Harden and optimize a WordPress site from the server and application side
Learn how to harden a WordPress site from the server side first and then install a security plugin.
Optimize a WordPress site from the server side and then make use of a caching plugin.

Who Should Attend

This course is meant for anyone who is tired of shared hosting and wants discover the benefits hosting their WordPress sites on a VPS
If WordPress site security concerns you – take this course as security comes FIRST and and not as an afterthought – you will secure your site using the server and not a plugin.
This course is for anyone who has received a warning from their shared host that their WordPress site is using too many server resources
This course is for anyone who wants to drastically improve the way they administer WordPress sites on a VPS
Anyone who wants to spend more time creating content and less time updating multiple WordPress sites using the dashboard?
Web designers who want to offer additional services to their clients
Anyone wanting to offer their services on fiverr setting up an unmanaged VPS and administering the VPS for a monthly fee
Business owners who want to setup WordPress on their own server
Anyone who wants to learn the best and quickest way to setup a WordPress site.
Anyone who wants to be able to build WordPress sites quickly and easily

Target Audiences

This course is meant for anyone who is tired of shared hosting and wants discover the benefits hosting their WordPress sites on a VPS
If WordPress site security concerns you – take this course as security comes FIRST and and not as an afterthought – you will secure your site using the server and not a plugin.
This course is for anyone who has received a warning from their shared host that their WordPress site is using too many server resources
This course is for anyone who wants to drastically improve the way they administer WordPress sites on a VPS
Anyone who wants to spend more time creating content and less time updating multiple WordPress sites using the dashboard?
Web designers who want to offer additional services to their clients
Anyone wanting to offer their services on fiverr setting up an unmanaged VPS and administering the VPS for a monthly fee
Business owners who want to setup WordPress on their own server
Anyone who wants to learn the best and quickest way to setup a WordPress site.
Anyone who wants to be able to build WordPress sites quickly and easily

This course will teach you how to host multiple WordPress sites on your very own Virtual Private Server,

This version of the course is based on Ubuntu 22.04, which is supported until April 2025 or April 2032 with the free Ubuntu Pro plan.This course also includes PHP8.1, which is up to 50% faster than previous versions of PHP.

Having issues with your current shared web host? With this course you can…

Say goodbye to shared hosting and one click WordPress installers!
Say goodbye to bad web hosts!
Say goodbye to terrible tech support that take days to solve issues
Say hello to the only WordPress course that is going to put YOU in true control of your server and your WordPress sites.
Say goodbye to bloated control panels filled with ads

As your site grows some shared hosts will throttle your site and sometimes even shut your site down if your site consumes to many resources. The more visitors you get, the more resources you are going to use. It ends badly, with your site income reduced to zero and your clients angry due to the downtime…

Shared hosting is designed for hosting static sites, not dynamic WordPress sites. Some of the main disadvantages of shared hosting:

you are sharing server resources with many other websites – this causes slow loading times and poor performance if other sites on the server are using too many resources.
if another site on the server is hacked, it could potentially affect your site as well.
you are limited by the amount of customization you can do with your site.

What’s the solution?

The solution is to move your WordPress hosting to a Virtual Private Server. If you need more control over your website’s performance, security, and customization, you need to consider a VPS hosting.

Some of the main advantages of VPS hosting:

With VPS hosting, you have dedicated resources that are not shared with other users, which ensures that your website is not affected by the activities of other websites on the server and due to this you experience better performance.
VPS hosting allows you to customize your server environment to meet your specific needs – Redis and Memcached are just two examples
VPS hosting is scalable, you can easily increase or decrease the resources allocated to your server depending on your needs.
VPS hosting is more secure compared to shared hosting because your resources are isolated from other users on the server. This reduces the risk of your website being affected by security vulnerabilities in other websites on the server.

What this course offers?

When you take this course, you will soon realize and wonder why it took you so long to move your WordPress sites from shared hosting to an unmanaged VPS. Please don’t let the word unmanaged scare you. An unmanaged VPS simply means the host keeps the network connected and the host node running, you are in control and responsible for everything else on the server. I’ll guide you, step by step through the process of setting up an unmanaged VPS and then I’ll also be guiding you through setting up WordPress on that VPS.

Never used the command line before? Never edited a configuration file before? No problem, I will teach you and provide you with the knowledge you need.

I cover all aspects, no matter if you are using Windows or MACOSX. We will download the software, I’ll show you how to install and configure the software and most important how to use the software. Prior to each section, I’ll explain what we are doing, why we are doing it and in plain easy to understand English. You won’t find any long and boring PowerPoint presentations and minute after minute looking at me talking to the camera. It’s us and the command line, nothing else. The command line is easy to use, just think of terminal as a very basic word processor. I’ll be there guiding you step by step.

This course is based on using Apache as your web server for the following reasons:

more compatible with different web applications and plugins, including those used by WordPress.
.htaccess files makes it easier to make changes to a WordPress site without needing to have access to the server configuration.
has a more user-friendly configuration process, this is a huge advantage for those who are not experienced server administrators.
large ecosystem easier to find support when you need it.

One of the most important and often overlooked aspects of this course is that you will be able to use the knowledge gained from this course to add to your monthly income.

You can do this by:

offer and charge for various services on freelancing sites
offer existing clients additional services for a recurring monthly fee
offer new clients services for a recurring monthly fee, you can now offer hosting instead of just design services.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Course Introduction – Welcome

Lecture 1: Course Introduction – Part 1

Lecture 2: Course Introduction – Part 2

Chapter 2: Linux Essential Skiils

Lecture 1: Essential Skills – Introduction – Part 1

Lecture 2: Essential Skills – Introduction – Part 2

Lecture 3: Essential Skills – Introduction – Part 3

Lecture 4: Essential Skills – Introduction – Part 4

Lecture 5: Essential Skills – Introduction – Part 5

Lecture 6: Essential Skills – Introduction – Part 6

Lecture 7: Essential Skills – Introduction – Part 7

Lecture 8: Essential Skills – Introduction – Part 8

Lecture 9: Essential Skills – Introduction – Part 9

Lecture 10: Essential Skills – Introduction – Part 10

Lecture 11: Essential Skills – Introduction – Part 11

Chapter 3: Software Required to Complete the Course

Lecture 1: Software Required to Complete the Course – Part 1

Lecture 2: Software Required to Complete the Course – Part 2

Chapter 4: Web Hosts, Server Resources and Creating a Server Instance

Lecture 1: Web Hosts, Server Resources and Creating a Server Instance – Part 1

Lecture 2: Web Hosts, Server Resources and Creating a Server Instance – Part 2

Chapter 5: First Server Login

Lecture 1: First Server Login

Chapter 6: Initial Server Hardening as the ROOT user

Lecture 1: Initial Hardening as ROOT – Part 1

Lecture 2: Initial Hardening as ROOT – Part 2

Lecture 3: Initial Hardening as ROOT – Part 3

Lecture 4: Initial Hardening as ROOT – Part 4

Lecture 5: Initial Hardening as ROOT – Part 5

Lecture 6: Initial Hardening as ROOT – Part 6

Lecture 7: Initial Hardening as ROOT – Part 7

Chapter 7: Initial Server Hardening as a NON ROOT user

Lecture 1: Initial Hardening as a NON ROOT user – SSH Key Authentication – Part 1

Lecture 2: Initial Hardening as a NON ROOT user – SSH Key Authentication – Part 2

Lecture 3: Initial Hardening as a NON ROOT user – Config File

Lecture 4: Initial Hardening as a NON ROOT user – Server Updates

Lecture 5: Initial Hardening as a NON ROOT user – The Firewall

Lecture 6: Initial Hardening as a NON ROOT user – Fail2Ban – Part 1

Lecture 7: Initial Hardening as a NON ROOT user – Fail2Ban – Part 2

Chapter 8: Installing the L(AMP) Stack – Apache, MariaDB & PHP8.1

Lecture 1: Installing the LAMP Stack – Apache

Lecture 2: Installing the LAMP Stack – MariaDB

Lecture 3: Installing the LAMP Stack -PHP8.1

Lecture 4: Installing the LAMP Stack – ModPHP_or_PHPFPM

Chapter 9: Harden the LAMP Stack

Lecture 1: Harden the LAMP Stack – Introduction – Reload or Restart

Lecture 2: Harden the LAMP Stack – Apache

Lecture 3: Harden the LAMP Stack – MariaDB

Lecture 4: Harden the LAMP Stack – PHP8.1-FPM

Chapter 10: Optimize the LAMP Stack

Lecture 1: Optimize the LAMP Stack – Apache

Lecture 2: Optimize the LAMP Stack – MariaDB

Lecture 3: Optimize the LAMP Stack – PHP8.1-FPM

Chapter 11: DNS – Pointing a DOMAIN NAME to your SERVER

Lecture 1: Pointing a DOMAIN NAME to your SERVER

Chapter 12: Site Directories

Lecture 1: Creating the WordPress Site Directories

Chapter 13: Apache Virtual Hosts

Lecture 1: Apache Virtual Hosts

Chapter 14: Installing WordPress

Lecture 1: Installing WordPress – Part 1 – MariaDB Basics

Lecture 2: Installing WordPress – Part 2

Lecture 3: Installing WordPress – Part 3

Lecture 4: Installing WordPress – Part 4

Lecture 5: Installing WordPress – Part 5

Lecture 6: Installing WordPress – Part 6

Chapter 15: Harden WordPress

Lecture 1: Harden WordPress – SSL Certificates – Part 1

Lecture 2: Harden WordPress – SSL Certificates – Part 2

Lecture 3: Harden WordPress – SSL Certificates – Part 3

Lecture 4: Harden WordPress – SSL Certificates – Part 4

Lecture 5: Harden WordPress – SSL Certificates – Part 5

Lecture 6: Harden WordPress – SSL Certificates – Part 6

Lecture 7: Harden WordPress – HTTP Response Headers

Lecture 8: Harden WordPress – Ownership & Permissions – Part 1

Lecture 9: Harden WordPress – Ownership & Permissions – Part 2

Lecture 10: Harden WordPress – Ownership & Permissions – Part 3

Lecture 11: Harden WordPress – Ownership & Permissions – Part 4

Lecture 12: Harden WordPress – Ownership & Permissions – Part 5

Lecture 13: Harden WordPress – Protecting Important WordPress Files and Directories

Lecture 14: Harden WordPress – Web Application Firewall

Chapter 16: Optimizing WordPress

Lecture 1: Optimizing WordPress – Introduction

Lecture 2: Optimizing WordPress – Post Revisions and WP CRON

Lecture 3: Optimizing WordPress – Caching Introduction

Lecture 4: Optimizing WordPress – Browser Caching

Lecture 5: Optimizing WordPress – Page, Opcode and Object Caching, including Memcached

Lecture 6: Optimizing WordPress – W3 Total Cache – Part 1

Lecture 7: Optimizing WordPress – W3 Total Cache – Part 2

Lecture 8: Optimizing WordPress – Cloudflare – Part 1

Lecture 9: Optimizing WordPress – Cloudflare – Part 2

Lecture 10: Optimizing WordPress – Cloudflare – Part 3

Chapter 17: WordPress Plugins

Lecture 1: Recommended and Essental WordPress Plugins

Chapter 18: Miscellaneous Tasks

Lecture 1: Miscellaneous Tasks – Server Updates

Lecture 2: Miscellaneous Tasks – WordPress Updates

Lecture 3: Miscellaneous Tasks – Server Resources

Lecture 4: Miscellaneous Tasks – Database Optimization

Lecture 5: Miscellaneous Tasks – PHPMYADMIN

Instructors

Andrew Eaton
WordPress and Linux Guru

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