Vultr VPS or Dedi Setup Cheat Sheet:

Step 1: Deploy new Vultr Instance. (May take 10 mins to a few hours)

Step 2: Login to cPanel and set it up.

Step 3: Update Apache and Php versions.
 - Apache 2.4 and Php 5.5
 - Skip to Exhaustive Options Menu
 - Toggle IonCube Loader 4.7.5 for PHP, Mbstring, and Zip. Uncheck MySQL "Improved" extension if it is on.
 - Save and build.
 
Step 4: Upgrade to MariaDB

Step 5: Configure PHP.ini with the PHP Configuration Editor, Advanced Mode
 - Change Core memory_limit to 1200M
 - Core post_max_size to 250M
 - Core upload_max_filesize 250M
 - Options & Information max_execution_time 7200
 - Options & Information max_input_time 7200
 - Save
 
Step 6: Tweak Settings. Disable Stats

Step 7: Configure my.cnf file.
 - Download and use free WinSCP
 - Navigate to /etc/my.cnf
 
Step 8: Add Swap Memory - The following dd command example creates a swap file with the name “myswapfile” under /root directory with a size of 8192MB (8GB).

# dd if=/dev/zero of=/root/myswapfile bs=1M count=8192
# ls -l /root/myswapfile

 - Change the permission of the swap file so that only root can access it.
# chmod 600 /root/myswapfile

 - Make this file as a swap file using mkswap command.
# mkswap /root/myswapfile

 - Enable the newly created swapfile.
# swapon /root/myswapfile

 - To make this swap file available as a swap area even after the reboot, add the following line to the /etc/fstab file.
# cat /etc/fstab
/root/myswapfile               swap                    swap    defaults        0 0

Step 9: Reboot and check swap

Step 10: Add Package

Step 11: Create Accounts and Begin Making Sites