Server setup

• Use Puppet / Chef for configuration. Handy puppet info at sysadmincasts
• Configure hostname
• Create new user and add to sudoers (how do passwords work?)
• Create deploy user?
• Configure ssh
  • disable root login
  • configure authorized users (only sudoer user added above and deploy user)
  • configure different ssh port from 22
• Install Postfix or perhaps Exim?
• Install Failtoban and Configure as per digital ocean guide
• Configure iptables? Don't know much about this
• Install Apache / Nginx (which is better - does it matter?)
  • are there post install apache things to harden it up?
• Install mysql
  • mysql secure installation?
• Install postresql
  • secure installation?
• Install Brightbox PPA for ruby
  • install ruby2, 1.9 (how to switch between them)
• Install mod-passenger
• Setup apache virtual-hosts directives for specific sites
• Find out what a deploy user should be able to do - file system
• https://www.sparkpost.com/docs/integrations/postfix/
• https://github.com/malclocke/db-backup
• https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/discussion-about-permissions-for-web-folders
• https://www.vultr.com/docs/how-to-install-openvas-vulnerability-scanner-on-ubuntu-16-04

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-configure-postfix-as-a-send-only-smtp-server-on-ubuntu-14-04 'unattended-upgrades' - ubuntu auto update - look into this possibly useful links: http://www.moshebergman.com/2013/04/vagrantchef-soloknife-solo-and-setting-up-users/

http://matteodepalo.github.io/blog/2013/03/07/how-i-migrated-from-heroku-to-digital-ocean-with-chef-and-capistrano/

https://gorails.com/deploy/ubuntu/14.04

http://matschaffer.github.io/knife-solo/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYt0E84kYUI

Setting up cloud at cost with cloud66

tasksel - useful command line installer

http://plusbryan.com/my-first-5-minutes-on-a-server-or-essential-security-for-linux-servers

Useful IRC Transcript

chat with francois

Swap space on DO

upgrading to ceder-14

discussion on rubynz

https://medium.com/@kirill_shevch/using-chef-and-capistrano-to-deploy-rails-application-on-ubuntu-16-04-fae1dfe0dd12

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-create-a-puppet-module-to-automate-wordpress-installation-on-ubuntu-14-04