Hands-on Linux: Self-Hosted WordPress for Linux Beginners

A practical, project-based crash course that prepares you for real-life Linux and Cloud work

What you'll learn:

• Updated for Ubuntu 22.04!
• Learn Linux skills by setting up a WordPress hosting platform
• Configure a production-grade WordPress install on Linux
• Configure your hosting platform on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Bonus Packer Mini-Course: Dip your toes into the world of modern DevOps
• Set up TLS (for free!) with letsencrypt so your users can enjoy the security of HTTPS
• Tune webserver performance and set up caching for lightning-fast page loads
• Set up and configure the popular MySQL database
• Be comfortable working with an nginx web server
• Configure monitoring for your web hosting server
• Create and manage Linux system users
• Manage Linux file permissions
• Understand the basics of how HTTP, the Web protocol, works
• Understand basic and more advanced Bash shell concepts and skills
• Schedule commands to run periodically on Linux with Cron
• Manage remote servers using SSH
• Automate repetitive tasks with Ansible, a powerful automation and configuration management tool
• Create and Restore website backups, both on the filesystem and in the MySQL database
• Effectively perform security hardening on Linux servers and services

Learn Linux, Cloud, and DevOps basics in a practical, project-based course designed to get you *using* new skills as soon asyou learn them.

By the time you finish, you'll be extremely comfortable on the Linux command-line, and you'll have a self-hosted production-grade WordPress hosting platform (on AWS, another cloud host, or a local virtual machine) that you can use to host any number of WordPress sites for friends, family, and clients. It also happens to cost less and be more secure than most WordPress hosting plans :-).

Other courses focus on slow memorization of theory and commands, which doesn't produce real-life skills. This course throws you into real-life Linux tasks from the very beginning.Even if you've never worked with Linux before, give me a few hours and you'llbe installing and configuring software from the command line, managing system services, working with a remote server, hardening security,scheduling backups and testing yourdisaster recovery plan,performing basic scripting andautomation, and setting up monitoring for your infrastructure.

While you're doing this, you'll get a slow drip of theory, giving you just enough background to hang your new practical knowledge on and ensuring that you know what's going on underneath the covers. I've worked in the industry for a long time and this is the only way I've seen theory really 'stick' with people.

Over the course of a few afternoons, you'll have completed a serious (and actually useful)project, understand the basics of Linux and system administration, and be comfortable on the Linux terminal; ready to take on larger and more complicated projects or build on the foundation of your WordPress hosting platform.

What we build together during this course is also a great resume project to bring up during interviews. Countless students who have taken this course are now Linux, DevOps, and Software engineers in the real world.