This series of documents will configure and setup a Nginx, MySQL, and PHP (LEMP) server on a basic Standard B1s (1 vcpus, 1 GiB memory) Ubuntu 16.04 or 18.04 LTS Virtual Machine on Microsoft Azure.

This will also install other useful packages and configurations for SFTP and a fully automated SSL service using certbot for Let's Encrypt.

The B1s is Azure's entry level Linux VM and only comes with 1 GiB memory so

Install MariaDB as a database management system DBMS

sudo apt install mariadb-server

Create a new database named srvmail for a mail server:

In this guide, I will show you how to make a Linux Mail Server in fast and easy way. This guide was taken from tiq's tech-blog for recent version, Linux distro I using is Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Make sure you have Certificate and Key file ready to use.

You can use existing Web Server SSL certificate, since we going to use same domain, example.com.

If you plan to use mx.example.com or mail.example.com you need create another one for these.