I'm about to buy a raw VPS, but I'm not sure what do I need to set it up. Is there any guide to this? Every search term I try ends up bringing up some godaddy page :D
@JackJohansson I would consider investigating cloud platforms. Google Cloud or Amazon Cloud ... Both are very comparable. I use AWS, but thinking about switching to Google.
I was going to recommend virtualization on your local machine. That way you can screw up as many times as you need in order to figure it out, without breaking the bank.
but ya so ... in a nut shell. It's Virtual Hosts, BIND, then domain registrar (NS pointing) ... You can also spoof your DNS locally to test, in order to avoid WWW syncing
edit your hosts file, C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc
@JackJohansson I would assume linode have a prebuilt wordpress node you can duplicate which will set the basic requirements, so at least you will have less toturials to read. I know digital ocean and lightsail (amazon) have such a creation wizard