Running on netcup is not much different from running on any other Linux host. The main difference is that the host is directly exposed to the Internet, and that it is provisioned with Debian, not Ubuntu, to begin with.
In netcup's customer control panel, Overview, click on "SCP Auto-Login". This gets you into their Server Control Panel.
In netcup's server control panel, choose Media on the left, and the Images tab. Select the Ubuntu 20.04 image and install it, partitioning the whole disk. The "SCP password" being asked for here is the password for the Server Control Panel, which you received in a welcome email when first signing up with netcup.
Once Ubuntu is up, log in via ssh: ssh root@IP. Create a non-root user: adduser USERNAME followed by usermod -aG sudo USERNAME.
Log in as that user.
This step is critical, because SSH is exposed to the Internet at large. In a nutshell, your public key goes into ~/.ssh/authorized_keys, then
you'll test that login works. The specific steps are a bit longer if you are not used to key generation, and documented here: https://eth-docker.net/docs/Usage/ClientSetup#ssh-key-authentication-with-linux
Once ssh key auth has been successfully tested, and not before,
edit the ssh config file: sudo nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config, and find these lines and changes them to no like so:
PasswordAuthentication no
PermitRootLogin no
Save the file, and run sudo systemctl restart ssh
Verify you can still log in via SSH.
Now just continue with Rocketpool or Ethereum node installation like you would on any Linux. For security, you'll want to turn on firewalling and only allow OpenSSH, as well as set up unattended-updates for Ubuntu. CoinCashew's guide is good, and I have a (lengthy) YT walkthrough re security, which I recommend skipping around in because of its length: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHtvCGlPz-o