First Steps on a New Server

Over the last decade I&rsquo;ve been playing with dozens of servers from multiple providers. These are the steps I&rsquo;ve been perfecting to get up to speed fast and feel right at home on a new machine. Wrote it down here mostly as a personal reference, but hopefully useful to someone else too. Hardware, distro, and DNS &sect; Clean Linux install with one large root partition plus big swap. 1…