Less of this AI slop please.

I will be calling it post-grease from now on.

The first one is post-grez-queue-el, the second one is post-gree-es-queue-el

And postgresql is pronounced post-gres-Q-L, even though it probably should be post-gre-SQL

It should be a serious red flag that your VPS host is generating root passwords simple enough to get quickly hacked.

Although disabling the root user is a good part of security, leaving it enabled should not alone cause you to get compromised. If it did, you were either running a very old version of OpenSSH with a known flaw, or, your chosen root password was very simple.