Installation¶

Since the VPS comes with the OS already installed, nothing else must be done.

Post-Installation¶

As a general rule of thumb, after installing the OS it is recommended to update the sources and packages:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

Configuring Date and Time¶

By default, the OS will be installed with GMT+0 as the timezone. We'll change this to conform with our real timezone which is GMT-5.

sudo timedatectl set-timezone America/Guayaquil

Firewall¶

Hetzner comes with a free Firewall service that I recommend you use to only allow certain ports on certain interfaces.

I won't go much into detail because the rules depend heavily on your use case, though I recommend you be as restrictive as possible when defining ports and interfaces.

Git¶

By default, git does not have a credential store configured, so make sure you run the following command to allow git operations in protected repos:

git config --global credential.helper store