Background: 15 years of experience in software and apparently spoiled because it was already set up correctly.
Been practicing doing my own servers, published a test site and 24 hours later, root was compromised.
Rolled back to the backup before I made it public and now I have a security checklist.
Haha I’m pretty sure my little server was just part of the “let’s test our dumb script to see if it works. Oh wow it did what a moron!”
Lessons learned.