Hi i have gone through your requirement, i 'll resolve the your magent 500 error and start the project right now.
Briefly i am experienced as linux server administrator and worked from past more than 4 years. Working on web server of apache/nginx, database server mysql/mariadb setup and performance optimization. Also working on security setup and malware removal of server and websites. Worked on different panel like cpanel/whm , plesk, directmin or more open source panel.
Worked with different server hosting including AWS , digitalocean, rackspace, linode, godaddy , 1and1 and more there.
Thanks
Balvinder Singh
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