Deploying High-Performance WordPress on Netcup VPS (LEMP & Redis Tuning)

# Install Nginx, MariaDB, Redis, and Certbot SSL tools

apt update && apt install -y nginx mariadb-server redis-server certbot python3-certbot-nginx wget curl unzip

# Install PHP 8.3 and required WordPress extensions

apt install -y php8.3-fpm php8.3-mysql php8.3-curl php8.3-gd php8.3-mbstring php8.3-xml php8.3-zip php8.3-redis php8.3-opcache php8.3-intl

mariadb -u root

-- Run SQL queries:

CREATE DATABASE wp_production CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;

CREATE USER 'wp_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'STRONG_SECRET_PASS_2026';

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wp_production.* TO 'wp_user'@'localhost';

FLUSH PRIVILEGES; EXIT;

# 1. Create web directory and fetch WordPress archive

mkdir -p /var/www/yourdomain.com && cd /tmp

wget https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz

tar -xzf latest.tar.gz && cp -r wordpress/* /var/www/yourdomain.com/

# 2. Assign ownership to www-data (dirs 755, files 644)

chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/yourdomain.com

find /var/www/yourdomain.com/ -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;

find /var/www/yourdomain.com/ -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

fastcgi_cache_path /var/run/nginx-cache levels=1:2 keys_zone=WORDPRESS:100m inactive=60m max_size=1g;

server {

  listen 80;

  server_name yourdomain.com www.yourdomain.com;

  root /var/www/yourdomain.com;

  index index.php index.html;

  location / {

    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;

  }

  location ~ \.php$ {

    include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;

    fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php8.3-fpm.sock;

    fastcgi_cache WORDPRESS;

    fastcgi_cache_valid 200 60m;

  }

  # Block XML-RPC to prevent brute-force attacks

  location = /xmlrpc.php { deny all; access_log off; }

}