10 Things I Always Do After Deploying a Fresh Ubuntu VPS. Anything I'm Missing?

I've been working with VPS deployments more frequently lately, and I realized I follow almost the same setup process every time before hosting any application.

Here's my current checklist:

• ✅ Update the system (apt update && apt upgrade)
• ✅ Create a non-root user with sudo privileges
• ✅ Configure SSH key authentication
• ✅ Disable root login and password authentication
• ✅ Enable UFW and allow only the required ports
• ✅ Install Docker & Docker Compose
• ✅ Enable automatic security updates
• ✅ Install Fail2Ban to protect SSH
• ✅ Configure swap (if the VPS has limited RAM)
• ✅ Set up monitoring and backups