The way I learned how to setup a server without using a control panel of some kind is by diving right in. At first I messed around on a local virtual machine r

The way I learned how to setup a server without using a control panel of some kind is by diving right in. At first I messed around on a local virtual machine running the same distro I planned to use. In a few hours I had NGINX, PHP-FPM and Rails apps up and running on a server.