Today we will go through the process of installing esoTalk on an Ubuntu VPS with Nginx and MariaDB. esoTalk is a free, open-source forum software, written in PHP, designed to be simple, fast, and fully featured. Despite its simplicity, a good number of plugins and themes are available to extend the functionality of esoTalk. This should work on other Linux Cloud VPS systems as well but was tested and written for Ubuntu 16.04.