The Perfect Nginx Server ? Ubuntu Edition

Description

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Descriptions

The Perfect Nginx Server – Ubuntu (22.04) Edition, New to Linux or server administration? Included in the course, is an absolute beginners “crash” Linux course. This 1 hour “course within a course” will teach you the commands, terminology and procedures as it relates to this course. This course is NGINX is a high-performance web server that is responsible for serving almost all of the most popular sites in the world. We start with a blank slate and layer by layer configure the perfect nginx server. I will teach you, step by step, to a point where you will have the skill, knowledge and confidence to host multiple hardened WordPress sites, on an unmanaged VPS or dedicated server, using nginx. You will need no support from your host. You will be your own system administrator. This course covers the entire spectrum of configuring an Ubuntu based NGINX server. We will cover everything from initial server configuration to hardening and optimizing the server distribution. we install, harden and optimize Nginx, MariaDB and php8.1.

Although the default installations of Nginx, MariaDB and PHP8.1 are fairly well hardened, we will spend over 1.5 hours hardening and optimizing Nginx, MariaDB and PHP8.1 Then we install our first WordPress site. We then start the process of hardening and optimizing WordPress. Installing a caching and security plugin does not optimize or harden a WordPress site. Some “security plugins” are a source of vulnerabilities themselves. Almost 4 hours of the course is dedicated to hardening and optimizing WordPress. We look at hardening and optimizing WordPress from the server side and layer by layer we will harden our site. Throughout the course, the principle of install only what’s needed, then harden and optimize is followed. The most important aspect of any server is security. I don’t just glance over this aspect, every configuration step you will take is geared towards security. We will optimize the server, but not at the expense of lax security. It’s impossible to list all the hardening and security layers we implement in this section, for a complete list please refer to the actual course curriculum.

What you’ll learn

• Setup, from scratch, a hardened and optimized VPS or dedicated server
• Configure a hardened and optimized hosting environment using Nginx, MariaDB and PHP8.1
• Harden WordPress the correct way – installing a security plugin doesn’t harden WordPress
• Optimize WordPress from the server side – learn how to configure server-side caching, which is far superior to any caching plugin
• Learn how to keep your server secure and your WordPress sites hardened from attack by implementing DDoS and brute force attack protection

Who this course is for

• Anyone who wants to host WordPress sites using nginx
• Anyone who wants to move from shared hosting to self-managed – VPS or DEDICATED SERVER hosting
• Anyone who wants to upgrade from slow and oversubscribed shared web hosting servers to your own blazingly fast VPS or DEDICARED SERVERS
• Frustrated with your current web hosts support, learn to do it yourself with this course, become your own sys admin, its easy!!!
• Anyone who is looking for a new income stream, you can boost your income drastically, by offering additional services that this course will teach you

Requirements

• Students should be familiar using WordPress
• Student should have a working knowledge of their local operating system, i.e. Windows, MACOS
• No knowledge of Linux required, I will teach you everything from scratch
• No knowledge of the command line is required, I will teach you everything from scratch
• No knowledge server administration is required, I will teach you everything from scratch