WordPress CyberPanel Setup (OpenLiteSpeed on Vultr High Frequency VPS)

today you'll learn how to set up wordpress using vulture high frequency combined with open lightspeed and cyberpanel a lot of you have been asking for this exact tutorial so here it is probably one of the fastest possible ways of writing wordpress on a budget and if you've never used vulture high frequency before there's a free 30-day trial link in the description so you can follow along with this tutorial completely for free i'm alex from ideasbot let's get started [Music] okay so the link in the description will look something like that idea spot comma u slash vulture go ahead and click that one from here then we click sign up fill in an email address and a password i'm not a robot and then create an account you'll notice that by using the link in the description you'll get 100 of free credit automatically applied you don't need any code for that to work that's automatic and that's for the first month so you can do whatever you want for free during that first month another important point to note is that when you're filling this out make sure you tick this box here for zero dollar deposit you don't need to deposit anything to get started you can do zero dollars just fine and then go ahead and continue you'll also receive a welcome to vulture email like this one just go ahead and click that verify your email box but now your account's pretty much ready to go we can start setting up a server so once we're logged into vulture in our account we're going to be under products here and we're going to go and deploy a new server so that's this one here from here we're going to choose high frequency now high frequency gives us the best performance for the lowest possible price i think this is the way to go on vulture and we choose our location so choose something closest to your particular audience otherwise probably north america is a good choice i'll go with new york for this demonstration and then we're going to choose our system for this i want to go with ubuntu and i'm going to go with 20.04 this is a recent version of ubuntu that is supported by cyberpanel and it's a long-term support version as well so 2004 i'd recommend that one and i'm going to go with the cheapest version of this server so six dollars for one cpu one gigabyte of memory this will work fine for um five or six small blogs quite easily if you're going to go with lots of websites or quite big e-commerce stores go with a larger instance but this will work fine for what we're gonna do here we don't need any of these things and we're gonna give our server a name i'll just call this one cyber demo and we should be all good to go let's deploy so we'll get a success message here and we'll see some installing under the status there so just wait while that installs so after about a minute we can see the status has changed to running now let's go and click ahead and click on that server now we can see the important details for our server we've got our ip address there a username and password to log into the server so we'll use those in a second first thing i'll do is i'll use this ip address and point a domain over to this address so that our server has a proper domain name in this case my domain is registered over on namecheap.com but you can use whatever you like namecheap.com is very cheap you can get dot site for two dollars and a dot xyz for one dollar if you just want something cheap to test with and try out ideas so you could get that from namecheap or godaddy is also quite cheap as well but whatever you like this step will be quite similar we just need to get to our dns manager so in namecheap it's under manage and then we head to advanced dns so whatever you're using just get to your dns manager we're going to add some records to our dns i've got a couple default records that are in here i'm just going to delete those out so just delete those ones out and then we're going to add a record so i want an a record i want to point that to the root so that's an at symbol and we're going to get that ip address from vulture here so copy that ip address and i'm going to punch that in there and then click the tick there it's also worth adding a c name for www so we put www and we point that to our domain name click the tick that looks all good here we can actually use this tool to check our dns propagation over on whatsmydns.net put your domain name in there for the a record and hit search it's hitting our server ip so that's all good so now we want to log into the command line for this service so we're going to log into this ip address i'm using windows so i'm going to use putty if you're using a mac go ahead and use terminal launch up that terminal app either way is going to be fine but we just need to get into that ip address using the root username and the password they've given us here so let's go ahead and do that you can get putty for free over on putty.org i've already installed it right here so in putty i've just put the ip address in there i'm going to save it as panel and click save and then i'm going to open that up first time you'll get a warning and just go ahead and click yes on that one and we are logging in as root here so just type in root and the password we can copy the password just by clicking that there that'll copy the password into the clipboard so hit enter there and we can right click to paste in our password and then press enter and now that we're all logged in we can go ahead and install cyber panels so i'm just going to paste in this command to install cyber panel i'm going to put this on my blog as well so you can just copy and paste it in and this just comes from the cyber panel documentation so let's paste that in press enter and wait for this to install i'll put a link in the description to my blog so you can just copy and paste that command and any other cyber panel hints and tips i find i'll put on my blog too so remember to go ahead and check that out so we do have to wait a few seconds while this loads up but then we'll get an option cyber panel installer to install cyber panel so here we just press option number one and then press enter and then now we want to choose to install solar panel with open light speed so that's the free version so number one and press enter and then install the full service for supper panel i'm going to choose y for yes and then enter and do you want remote my sql i'm going to choose no here and press enter and now we press enter to choose the latest version of cyber panel and we want to do a random default or set a password so in this case i'm going to go with the random password but you can choose to specify your own if you like here and do you want to install memcached i'm going to go with yes and read this i'm going to go with capital y for yes and watchdog we just press enter here and that will load up the watchdog as well so now we just wait for all of this to install it's going to go ahead and download all the things we need so i'm just going to pause the video here because this takes about 10 minutes to set up so we've skipped ahead and we're all done here we can see we've got cyber panel is successfully installed and it took 12 minutes to install and we've got our username and password for the panel and the web console so i'm going to go ahead and just copy all this information here and just paste it into notepad and keep it safe for later so i'll just paste that in there and we'll also notice that down the bottom here it says would you like to restart your server now so we're going to go with yes here and go ahead and press enter so our party will close here and we'll have to reboot and wait for that to reboot basically and come back in with a new connection so i'll click ok and close this one out so now that cyber panel is all installed and we wait a minute for our server to reboot we can go to a new tab go to our ip address and go to port 80 90. so just put a colon there and then put 8090 and then press enter and this should take us to our cyber panel dashboard first time you try this you'll get an ssl error so we click advanced in google chrome and proceed your browser might be variable but we basically proceed past this i'll show you how to fix this with ssl in just a minute so here we can get in with the admin password that we got during the setup so that'll be the first password that we've got here and our user is admin so let's plug that in there and go ahead and sign in so here we are in cyber panel so we can go ahead and start setting up websites now so we've got websites on the left here we can go and create a website so here we're going to put in our website details if we just fill that in i'm using the default package admin is the owner the domain name in this example is ideaspot.site but your domain will go there any email address of yours can go in there and php i'm going to use 7.4 that's the most recent compatible version with wordpress at the moment we can put all these additional features on and the additional feature ssl is the important one make sure you did the dns step like i did earlier in the video make sure that ip is pointing to this ip like we did earlier in the video so let's go ahead and create the website now so this will take a minute for everything to set up properly so just be patient with this bit so that looks all good we've got our success message next thing we'll do is ssl and we're going to do hostname ssl here so we can go ahead and select that new website that we just made ideaspot.site and issue ssl here and wait for that to issue now we get our success so we can actually access cyberpanel through our domain name on port 8090 now so let's go ahead and try that so in our browser address i've put ideaspot.siteport8090 there let's go ahead and go to our new cyberpanel from our domain name so we can actually load this up again put in the same admin username and password we used before go ahead and sign in now we're ready to set up wordpress now there's a couple of things we might tweak before we do that first thing we'll go to is packages and let's modify the default package so let's select the default and here it limits our domains and disk space and things we can change those limits here for example our disk space is limited to a thousand megabytes we can make that ten thousand so that's ten gig bandwidth is limited to uh one thousand we could make it zero for unlimited and uh go ahead and press modify package here so that's successfully modified next thing we can do is edit the php config so scroll down here we've got php and we want to edit the php config so we're going to select our php here 7.4 we're under the basic options here so we can increase these to give wordpress a bit more resources so we can make that memory limit instead of 128 we can make it 256. we can change that maximum upload file size we could say 200 megabytes up post max size we could make that 80 megabytes for example so we've got some more flexibility when we're working in wordpress go ahead and save the changes there and down the bottom you'll get a php config saved so we're pretty ready to go we can go ahead and set up wordpress now let's list our websites out and we've got the one website we should have here so we've got ideaspot.site there we can manage this one by clicking that manage button there here we are we can see we've got ssl from let's encrypt that will expire in 90 days but it will automatically renew so you don't have to worry about ssl renewals here if we scroll down we can go ahead and we can install wordpress so let's click that one now we just fill in the details we need for our wordpress website so you put a title in the admin username so just make up a nice username i'm going to go with ideaspot a nice strong password admin email address and we leave the path blank to install on the home directory and then we install so just wait for this to install so that looks all good now we can go back let's go back to websites and list our websites again under manage the thing i want to do here is add ssl redirects so we go to rewrite rules here and then we select this one called force http to https and then save that in so now if we head over to ideaspot.site we can see we've got ssl is working and we've got our default wordpress install if we head over to our domain name wp-admin we can get to our admin login and we can log in with the credentials that we use when we installed wordpress on cyberpanel so click login so here we are in wordpress you can start building here under appearance and themes go ahead install astra or cadence or a good theme like that and start building otherwise you can go to uh plugins and add new and use a tool like all-in-one migration or duplicator to bring your existing wordpress website over to your new installation here so hopefully this has been useful i'll also mention a couple of the security features here inside the panel if we go down we can see under security we've got firewall the firewall should already be set up by default we can see the subpanel has its default firewall already set up ready to go the other thing that we've got here is mod security if we click mod security conf there so that was mod security conf we can see mod security is not installed yet it's worth installing that so that looks all good the page will automatically refresh and we can go ahead turn those things on the next thing we can do is mod security rules packs we go ahead and turn on these rule packs as well that's worth doing we get an improved uh web application firewall by doing this the other thing that's worth doing is connecting to cyber panel cloud this is a nice way of managing cyber panel updates so to do that we need to go to users and we need to api access so api access and then we select admin and access enable and save changes there this will allow us to connect to the cloud so then we click connect so cyber panel cloud is actually free to register you can go ahead and use the sign up link if you haven't signed up already and pop in your email and password in here and then go and sign in once we're signed in here we go to connect cyber panel and choose connect there so we can connect just make up a name i'm going to call that cyberdemo we use our service ip address the username is admin and the password is the cyberpanel admin password to log into cyberpanel we leave this empty for the default port and then we click connect and just wait for that to connect so this looks all good we've got our website connected to the solar panel cloud now this is a really nice way of managing multiple servers but most people are going to like this because it's a really nice way of implementing server upgrades so we can go to settings and we can do upgrades on our servers so we can go ahead and choose what version of cyber panel i'm already on the latest 2.1.1 but as they bring out new versions you can update your solar panel in here there's other loads of cool features in cyber panel for example databases you can get to phpmyadmin to edit your database you can do backups here so we can create backups and also under uh security here we can do unified avs included as well so you can do scans on your drive and if you want to edit any files manually on your website we can go back to websites and they have a file manager for each website as well so if we list websites under manage and we'll find the file manager in here so there we go so this is a pretty standard looking file manager we can go into our public html file and then we've got all of our wordpress files here so if we want to edit anything manually we can do that in here for example if you wanted to look at your config click on the config there right click and you've got choices to edit you can even compress folders up so if you want to compress all your content up you can go ahead and compress all your content and download a copy of it for example lots of things you can do all for free in cyber panel now let's do a quick performance test before we wrap this video up so we've got a simple cadence starter template website here on wordpress so i've just gone ahead and installed a basic template site here we've got our lightspeed cache that comes automatic when we install wordpress on cyber panel so that's all ready to go i also turn on the performance options in the cadence theme customizer now with this setup in google pagespeed insights we are getting a perfect hundred now that's 100 on mobile so i'm really happy with that result very simple little site here and loading only in 1.5 seconds so a really nice result from open light speed and cyber panel i did notice that this result is pretty much identical to what we got on vulture high frequency when we tested on cloudways a couple of weeks ago we also got 1.5 seconds for our largest content for paint this is probably the most important number that largest content for paint so exactly the same site exactly the same hardware vulture high frequency six dollar plan so running pretty much exactly the same so this one is cyber panel with open lights but this is uh cloudways was nginx so very uh very good results from both doesn't really make a big difference on that vulture high frequency six dollar plan pretty much identical numbers between those two i know a lot of you were asking for this cyber panel set up and i'm glad i finally did one because i'm really happy with this result as well so remember to say thanks in the comments or hit like i'll do both if you can that'll be really appreciated okay so that wraps up setting up our web server for email i really like to keep my email separated from my web server i just want to make sure my web server has the highest possible performance i don't want to put extra load on the web server running email on the same server so i've got tutorials for zoho and gmail and smtp with send in blue i'll put a couple videos up there so you can check those out as well thanks for watching i'll catch you next time

Channel: IdeaSpot

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Keywords: wordpress hosting, litespeed web server, cyberpanel tutorial, cyberpanel vs cloudways, openlitespeed wordpress, vultr cloud hosting, vultr hosting, vultr vps, vultr wordpress hosting, how to install wordpress on vultr, vultr, cyberpanel

Id: Nc4gU_X6j_w

Length: 16min 48sec (1008 seconds)

Published: Wed May 26 2021