I was in the same shoes as you. After going through the tutorial, I didn't feel confident that I could set up another project and configure the required settings without referring to the guide.
It will get better once you embark on your second or third project. You will be able to refer back to your earlier projects (instead of the guide) and see what steps you have missed out.
For those in Singapore (or neighboring countries), try ExpertVM (http://expertvm.com/).
I have been using them for hosting small Django sites and running SVM classification without any issues. It's cheap if you want to have a VPS to play around with different OS-es (you can reinstall a new OS via the control panel).