FYI your link formatting needs work, the closing brace is not used.

Was 700, should have been 755… 777 is more like the “just put sudo in front of the command” nuclear option.

It was unnecessarily complex to accommodate their cloud infrastructure setup.

Please elaborate how you needed to “accommodate their cloud infrastructure setup”.

When I set my server up years ago all I did was log in on the web interface. Literally as simple as any other service.