Requirements

1. Choose a quality datacenter located near your audience (if your SlickStack-powered website is for a local business in Miami, Florida, then selecting a datacenter in Atlanta, Georgia, would be better than Seattle, Washington).
2. Setup a dedicated Virtual Machine (or a traditional dedicated server/bare-metal server) that provides root/console access.
3. KVM virtualization is highly recommended for VM instances instead of e.g. OpenVZ, Xen, etc and is least prone to potential issues.
4. Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is required… use other Linux distros at your own risk.
5. Allocate at least 2GB+ RAM memory (1GB RAM should work for small sites, but 2GB+ RAM is recommended for more dynamic sites… for example, WooCommerce sites). SlickStack also creates a 2GB swapfile by default, unless a swapfile already exists.
6. At least 1 CPU core is recommended (but 2+ CPU cores is much more scalable).
7. Do not install “containers” e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, etc.