In this Podcast episode we'll teach you how to setup a vps from ArticHost.

If you were wanting to setup a wordpress blog we'd: Purchase the vps, connect to the vps, fail2ban is already preconfigured so you don't need to protect ssh, install and configure a lamp stack (apache/mariadb/php), configure them to start now and on startup, create a database, a db user, and db user pass, download the wordpress packages to /var/www/html, edit wp-config.php with db creds. At this point you should be able to browse to http://MY-VPS-IP-ADDRESS and get to your wordpress blog. 

If you need the exact instructions vps documentation.