Virtual Private Server (VPS)

what is it?

• isolated, virtual environment on a physical server.
  • owned & operated by cloud provider.

Code snippet

List of frequent command I use when using Oracle VPS (OS: Linux Ubuntu)

• SSH to VPS from CMD/Powershell (Windows)

ssh username@vps_ip_address

Note: instead of typing the VPS IP Address, can use domain name for easier to remember.

• Update & upgrade

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

• Delete folder with all it's subdirectories

sudo rm -rf dir_name