So this post is gonna be more of a “getting started with a virtual machine in a cloud provider” sort of thing, not very advanced, just a simple step by step guide for someone who never did it.
Cloud Providers
Like I said in the intro to this series of posts, I’m using Linode mainly for it being slightly cheaper than Digital Ocean (referred as DO from now on) which I was using before it. Until this point both options seem to be really solid, although I haven’t deployed nothing yet to really test how it performs under load.

Coding Militia (João Antunes)

A beginner-friendly step-by-step guide to setting up a virtual machine on Linode. Covers creating and deploying a VM with Ubuntu, creating a non-root user with sudo privileges, configuring SSH key-based authentication and disabling password login, setting up UFW firewall rules, and configuring DNS records including A/AAAA records and nameservers.

Getting this up and running – Initial server setup (1/3)