I have been sitting on this for a long time and I figured it is about time that I got it out to the masses!

As many of you are aware, I have been using Slicehost for my VPS.  I decided to release my installation notes on setting up the VPS for hosting WordPress on an Ubuntu slice.

Step One – Update Server

Edit sources.list

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

Remove all of the # from all commented lines.

Update and Upgrade

sudo aptitude –y update
sudo aptitude –y safe-upgrade
sudo aptitude –y full-upgrade

Configure Time Zone

sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

Select the time zone that you are in.

Part 2

Tomorrow, we are going to configure iptables to help increase security.