The rest of the owl: go to provider, set up VM (20 questions) log into root. SSH for login. set up firewalls. create non-root user. useradd or adduser? depends if you want a home dir I guess. debug why you can't ssh in. Finally get in. sudo apt update. sudo apt install git (or is it named something else?). install failtoban. install fw.
And I believe GP was talking about the only thing you need is:
And then you can add the remote to your local repo with Now all you need to do is Replace origin with another identifier if it's already taken.