[deanhills]

@deanhills

Your progress looks good so far. Of course still a lot to learn for the case of really running everything without a control panel via the CLI.

Most important like with Windows is also with Linux that one usually focuses on a certain set of OSs. I'm the Debian / Ubuntu user while you seem to be a bigger fan of CentOS like @fChk .

Same with stuff like you using Apache while I would always recommend Nginx (unless Apache is really necessary). I know for a fact that Wordpress works very well with Nginx, too .

That is so true @Mashiro.  Except I've now moved away from CentOS.  After hours and HOURS of trying to make chown and chmod privileges work as well as trying to get to grips with rewrite settings, I've given up on LAMP stack.  Today I spent hours with trying to set up an OpenLightspeedserver (the free version of LightSpeedServer) on CentOS 7 as an alternative to Apache.  Same thing as I did with LAMP I worked through numerous tutorials to get the best version of instructions and ended up with the one below I thought should have worked - particularly because of the addition of a Cheat Sheet, but after hours of following all of the steps, I ended up with index.html getting a 400 error page  !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urnHwEQ2eAE



What finally caused me to change to Debian was when I realized that possibly I'm a panel person only.  I had tried the Belgian fork of VestaCP that didn't work for me because of wanting me to install JAVA, but I hadn't tried the Debian fork yet since I had thought it would have been a drastic change in OS.  There was some learning involved with Debian but all of it went fast, and looks like I'm now on the Debian fork of VestaCP called myVestaCP.  Any one who is interested in a really great panel that works with Debian can check it out here:

https://www.myvestacp.com/#how-to-install

Dpeca also has a discussion forum here that is very well supported by him. From what I heard about his motivation for doing this is that he is running many servers and they are all on Debian and VestaCP works for him. So he decided to beef up the security of his servers by creating the fork:

https://forum.myvestacp.com/

I can't get over how much faster Debian is, or is it just a fluke?  Like two days ago while I was on CentOS 7, this was the result of my speed test.  



And this was with Debian today.



I know the speedtest is not really representative, but it's the difference between the two, as well as the faster running of the same script on Debian, the VPS running faster, and once in WordPress the plugins loaded like lightning.  Not that it was slow with CentOS, just much faster on Debian.