Part 1
WordPress on Hetzner VPS: Why I Left Managed Hosting
I moved my WordPress and WooCommerce sites from managed hosting to a Hetzner VPS. Walkthrough of provisioning, SSH hardening, and firewall on Debian 13.
WordPress Infrastructure
A 7-part deep dive on running WordPress on a Hetzner VPS — LEMP stack, deploys, caching, security, automation, monitoring.
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Part 2
LEMP Stack for WordPress: Nginx, MariaDB, PHP on Debian
Step-by-step LEMP stack setup for WordPress on a Hetzner VPS. Nginx tuning, MariaDB 11.8 InnoDB configuration, PHP 8.4 FPM static pools, OPcache JIT, and.
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Part 3
Deploying WordPress with Redis Object Cache Pro and Nginx
Production WordPress deployment on a VPS: wp-config.php constants, Redis Object Cache Pro setup, Nginx vhosts, SSL via Cloudflare, and the wp-config ordering.
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Part 4
WordPress Caching: FastCGI, Redis, OPcache, Cloudflare
Four-layer WordPress caching stack for performance optimization: Cloudflare CDN, Nginx FastCGI page cache, Redis Object Cache Pro, and PHP OPcache with JIT.
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Part 5
WordPress Security on VPS: Nginx, Fail2ban, SSL
Two-layer WordPress VPS security: Nginx blocks wp-login brute force and scanner probes before PHP runs, fail2ban bans repeat offenders at the kernel level.
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Part 6
WordPress Backup Automation: Cron Jobs and Cache Warming
Automated WordPress server maintenance with cron: nightly cloud backups, MariaDB database optimization, 5-phase cache warming, plugin distribution across.
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Part 7
WordPress Monitoring: Healthchecks and Telegram Alerts
Three-layer WordPress server monitoring: a self-healing cron healthcheck that auto-restarts services, a diagnostic status dashboard, and an external Telegram.