Take a fresh install of Debian on DigitalOcean and spruce it up.
Althought it could as easily be used for any Debian install.

Output can be found in /var/log/do-debian-setup.txt

Note: The power of source is time consuming.

• Updated
• Upgraded
• Handful of helpful utilities git curl htop vim build-essential certbot
• Swap space and updated swap settings better suited for flash storage.
• MariaDB 10.1
• OpenSSL 1.1.0e
• PHP 7.1.2 w/fpm
  • composer
• Nginx 1.11.10 (Mainline)
• Node v7.5.0 w/npm
• Add sudo user deployer with password password
• Expire deployers password so it must be reset on first login
• Copy roots authorized_keys to deployer
• Disables root from logging in

Easy SSL with letsencrypt and an A+ rating from SSL Labs. This project is inspired by laravel/settler, it aims to provision a droplet for a Laravel project like settler does for a vagrant box.

This script can change for the most up-to-date information inspect ./do-debian-setup.sh.

From your development machine run..
./do-debian-setup.sh DROPLET_IP_ADDR