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How to Start with a VPS

Everything on how to start with a vps: start here for tested guides, comparisons and calculators.

GuideVPS setup checklist: the 10 steps we ran on a new server, in orderA VPS setup checklist from a real server: 10 steps in the order we ran them on Ubuntu 26.04, with exact commands, timings and the ssh.socket gotcha.

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