Step 1 – Login to your vps with your username
username@desktopname:~$ ssh username@yourvpsip
Enter your password.
Step 2 – Add a new user to the system.
The system automatically chooses for the directory /home.
Now use the adduser command to create a new user for your VPS.
username@yourvps:~$ sudo adduser username
Step 3 – Logout of the system.
username@yourvps:~$ exit
Step 4 – Login as the newly created user
Now you log in again , but as the newly created user.
username@desktopname:~$ ssh newusername@yourvpsip
Step 5 – Create a directory public_html
Open Midnight commander and create a directory public_html.
This is where you can put for example your wordpress site.
Step 6 – Give your new user administrator rights
Now you have to give your new user administrator rights.
This you have to do under your username, so first exit
newusername@yourvps:~$ exit
Now log back in with your main username.
username@desktopname:~$ ssh username@yourvpsip
and then use the visudo command
username@yourvps:~$ sudo visudo
Enter your password [sudo] password for username:
username@yourvps:~$ exit
Now login with the username you just created.
username@desktopname:~$ ssh newusername@yourvpsip
Now test out if the sudo command is working under your new username.
newusername@yourvps:~$ sudo su
[sudo] password for newusername:
root@yourvps:/home/newusername#