The Perfect Nginx Server - Ubuntu (22.04) Edition

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Andrew Eaton

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1. Course Introduction

1.1 SECTION 1 Introduction.pdf

1. Course Introduction.mp4

17:34

2. Linux Essential Skills Crash Course

1.1 SECTION 2 ESSENTIAL SKILLS.pdf

1. Introduction.mp4

02:30

2. Distributions.mp4

04:14

3. Terminal Emulator.mp4

02:50

4. Terminal Window.mp4

09:54

5. File System.mp4

15:59

6. Users and Groups.mp4

02:38

7. Ownership and Permissions.mp4

18:00

8. Nano & Configuration Files..mp4

02:37

9. Server Fingerprint & SSH Key Authentication.mp4

05:25

10. Bash Scripts, Cron Jobs & Section Conclusion.mp4

08:13

3. Software

1.1 SECTION 3 SOFTWARE.pdf

1. Software.mp4

11:51

4. Hosts and Servers

1.1 SECTION 4 WEB HOSTS.pdf

1. Web Hosts and Servers.mp4

17:26

5. First Server Login as the Administrative ROOT User

1.1 SECTION 5 - First Login - ROOT.pdf

1. First Login as ROOT - Part 1.mp4

10:08

2. First Login as ROOT - Part 2.mp4

11:00

6. First Server Login as a Non Root User

1.1 SECTION 6 - First Login NON ROOT.pdf

1. Introduction.mp4

01:06

2. Using SUDO.mp4

03:35

3. SSH Key Authentication.mp4

14:59

4. Config File.mp4

07:37

5. Server Updates.mp4

08:35

6. Firewall.mp4

15:14

7. Fail2Ban.mp4

16:33

7. Harden and Optimize the Server Distribution Operating System

1. Introduction and Setting the Server TimeZone.mp4

05:08

2. SWAP.mp4

10:15

3. Harden Shared Memory.mp4

03:28

4. Harden and Optimize the Network Layer.mp4

07:11

5. Tuned.mp4

03:22

6. Congestion Control.mp4

01:54

7. File Access Times.mp4

03:47

8. Open File Limits.mp4

06:22

8. Configuring Cloudflare's Free DNS Service

1. Configuring the DNS.mp4

04:14

9. Installing the L(EMP) Stack Nginx, MariaDB and PHP8.1

1. Introduction, Repos and APT.mp4

08:14

2. Installing NGINX, MARIADB and PHP8.1.mp4

15:40

10. Server Mail

1. Configuring the Servera to Send Mail without Plugins - Part 1.mp4

15:25

2. Configuring the Servera to Send Mail without Plugins - Part 2.mp4

10:18

11. Understanding Nginx Configuration Files

1. NGINX Configuration files - Part 1.mp4

11:22

2. NGINX Configuration files - Part 2.mp4

14:56

12. Harden and Optimize Nginx

1. Introduction & the INCLUDE Directive.mp4

04:32

2. The main nginx configuration file - nginx.conf - Part 1.mp4

09:56

3. The main nginx configuration file - nginx.conf - Part 2.mp4

08:59

4. Prevent and Fix the Too Many Open Files Issue.mp4

03:33

5. Bash Aliases.mp4

07:52

13. Harden and Optimize MariaDB

1. Harden MariaDB.mp4

03:46

2. Optimize MariaDB - Part 1.mp4

10:18

3. Optimize MariaDB - Part 2.mp4

12:19

4. MySQLTuner.mp4

03:47

5. Prevent and Fix the Too Many Open Files Issue.mp4

04:05

14. Harden and Optimize PHP8.1

1. Harden PHP 8.1.mp4

06:54

2. Optimize PHP 8.1.mp4

12:03

3. Prevent and Fix the Too Many Open Files Issue.mp4

04:11

15. Server and Site File and Directory Structure

1. File and Directory Structure.mp4

16:07

16. Nginx Server Blocks

1. NGINX Server Blocks - Part 1.mp4

06:53

2. NGINX Server Blocks - Part 2.mp4

06:37

3. NGINX Server Blocks - Part 3.mp4

08:57

4. NGINX Server Blocks - Part 4.mp4

09:11

17. Installing WordPress

1. Database Administration.mp4

08:44

2. Installing WordPress - Part 1.mp4

11:25

3. Installing WordPress - Part 2.mp4

11:37

18. Harden WordPress

1. Introduction.mp4

00:56

2. SSL - Installing SSL Certificates.mp4

08:04

3. SSL - NGINX HTTPS Configuration.mp4

11:13

4. SSL - NGINX Secure Server Blocks.mp4

13:40

5. SSL - HTTPS Everywhere.mp4

02:24

6. SSL - Certbot Commands.mp4

07:00

7. HTTP Response Headers.mp4

10:37

8. Ownership & Permissions Part 1.mp4

08:45

9. Ownership & Permissions Part 2.mp4

07:36

10. Ownership & Permissions Part 3.mp4

10:29

11. Using NGINX Directives to Harden Your WordPress Site.mp4

05:27

12. Stop Brute Force Attacks Using Nginx.mp4

09:03

13. Hot Linking Protection.mp4

02:21

14. Nginx DDoS Protection.mp4

09:27

15. Web Application Firewall.mp4

05:15

19. Optimize WordPress

1. Introduction to WordPress Optimization.mp4

02:32

2. Server Side Optimization.mp4

03:51

3. Application (WordPress) Side Optimization.mp4

02:04

4. Caching WordPress.mp4

11:21

5. Static & Dynamic WP Sites.mp4

01:10

6. Implementing a Caching Policy - Introduction - Part 1.mp4

03:27

7. Implementing a Caching Policy - FastCGI Caching - Part 2.mp4

14:18

8. Implementing a Caching Policy - FastCGI Caching - Part 3.mp4

12:42

9. Implementing a Caching Policy - FastCGI Caching - Part 4.mp4

03:56

10. Implementing a Caching Policy - W3TC & Redis - Part 5.mp4

17:49

11. Implementing a Caching Policy - W3TC & Redis - Part 6.mp4

13:33

12. Configure & Optimize PHP-FPM - Part 1.mp4

09:32

13. Configure & Optimize PHP-FPM - Part 2.mp4

05:20

14. Cloudflare - Part 1.mp4

06:42

15. Cloudflare - Part 2.mp4

03:11

16. Cloudflare - Part 3.mp4

06:48

20. Tasks

1. Server Updates.mp4

03:29

2. AV & Malware Scanning - Part 1.mp4

11:04

3. AV & Malware Scanning - Part 2.mp4

09:01

4. WordPress Updates.mp4

07:20

5. Database Tuning.mp4

04:28

6. phpMyAdmin - Part 1.mp4

08:59

7. phpMyAdmin - Part 2.mp4

08:29

8. phpMyAdmin - Part 3.mp4

03:50

9. PHP-FPM Tuning.mp4

00:43

10. Site & Server Monitoring.mp4

02:55

21. Miscellaneous Topics

1. Moving a WP Site.mp4

08:19

2. WPCLI.mp4

00:59

3. WordPress Site Backups.mp4

00:51

4. WordPress Plugins.mp4

01:31

5. sFTP - FileZilla.mp4

07:09

6. Creating a Content Security Policy - Part 1.mp4

10:22

7. Creating a Content Security Policy - Part 2.mp4

06:30

8. Creating a Content Security Policy - Part 3.mp4

04:05

9. Creating a Content Security Policy - Part 4.mp4

08:25

10. Creating a Content Security Policy - Part 5.mp4

01:46

11. Log Rotation Policy.mp4

05:27

12. Nginx - Deny IP Access, Cleanup CONF Files and Setting the Backlog.mp4

06:33

13. Nginx DDOS Protection - Final Configuration.mp4

07:20

22. Hosting Additional Sites

1. Introduction.mp4

01:38

2. Hosting Additional Sites - Domain - Part 1.mp4

09:23

3. Hosting Additional Sites - Domain - Part 2.mp4

09:01

4. Hosting Additional Sites - Domain - Part 3.mp4

02:08

5. Hosting Additional Sites - Domain - Part 14.mp4

07:20

6. Hosting Additional Sites - Domain - Part 5.mp4

08:04

7. Hosting Additional Sites - SubDomain - Part 1.mp4

06:58

8. Hosting Additional Sites - SubDomain - Part 2.mp4

08:46

9. Hosting Additional Sites - SubDomain - Part 3.mp4

02:17

10. Hosting Additional Sites - SubDomain - Part 4.mp4

08:23

11. Hosting Additional Sites - SubDomain - Part 5.mp4

08:45

12. Hosting Additional Sites - SubDomain - Part 6.mp4

06:51

23. Course Conclusion

1. Course Conclusion.mp4

02:29

Description

The Absolute Beginners Course to Setting Up Multiple Fast WordPress Sites Using Nginx and Ubuntu 22.04

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 is this 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

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Description
This course is based on the latest Ubuntu Server Long Term Support Release 22.04
This is a beginner's course that assumes you have no knowledge configuring a Linux server, server administration or NGINX.
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.Â 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.
Some of the server optimization and hardening steps will include the following topics:
SSH Key authentication
Setting up both Uncomplicated Firewall and a "Cloud Firewall"
Brute force attack protection
SWAP
Harden Shared Memory
Harden and Optimize the Network Layer
Tuned and Congestion Control
File Access Times and setting the Open File Limits
Then we install, harden and optimize Nginx, MariaDB and php8.1.Â 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.
Some of the hardening topics include:
Installing SSL certificates and configuring automatic renewal of those certificates.
Securing the http response headers
Setting the correct ownership and permissions on the WP files and directories
Using nginx directives to protect important parts of our site
Hot linking protection to stop other sites from stealing our bandwidth and driving up server costs
Nginx DDoS protection
Setting up a web application firewall
When it comes to optimizing WP, we will look at the process from both the server-side and the application (WordPress) side.
On the server-side we will cover the following:
optimizing the operating system - prior to optimizing WordPress
optimizing nginx - prior to optimizing WordPress
configuring php-fpm according to your server resources - prior to optimizing WordPress - set to low your site slows down, set to high and your server will crash
server-side caching - fastcgi caching is brilliant
replacing WP cron with a real cron
On the application or WordPress side you need to look at the following:
Caching plugin - W3 Total Cache
Optimizing images
Post revisions policy
Optimizing the database
Combining and minifying CSS and JS
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.Â 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.
By the end of this course, you will be ready to reap the benefits...
You'll be able to add a new revenue stream and start earning additional income hosting your own sites using NGINX. There will be numerous new services you will be adding to your resume as a web developer. You will be able to charge for numerous new services - site hosting, site optimization, Let's Encrypt SSL certificate installation and renewal, backups and even a monthly maintenance fee.
This course is not a lab experiment with no real-world application.
This course was not designed to be completed locally, on your pc or mac or using one of the many available "Virtual Machines". Oracle's VirtualBox is one example. The aim of the course is to instruct you on how to setup a secure/hardened hosting environment and then host multiple hardened WordPress sites on a commercially purchased VPS or dedicated server.
I want you to able to look at server logs and see how malicious users and bots are scanning your server, probing and looking for vulnerabilities. You need to be able to see the result of your hardening - banning, blocking, rate limiting - in your server logs. This cannot be done in a Virtual Machine.
All that's left is for you to sign up for this course and start your wonderful journey as your very own systems administrator running multiple WordPress sites using the latest Ubuntu release and NGINX.
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

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I am Andrew Eaton. I'm former IT lecturer that specialized in programming, databases and systems analysis.Part of my job involved breaking down and explaining complex technical detail to students. My policy was to try and use only technical detail if it was absolutely necessary to help the students understand the point. I've adopted the same style with my Udemy Courses, I'll use clear concise English, trying to keep the technical terms to an absolute minimum.My current full time job is administering my 100+ WordPress sites that are hosted on various servers around the world. All my sites are hosted on unmanaged virtual private servers or dedicated servers.

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