For three years I have been working with the unix environment at my 9 to 5 job, it has help me in many ways as a webmaster as well. I would very much recommend any webmaster to have some basic knowledge in unix/linux command line. I have just bought myself some low end VPS to learn all about unmanage webhosting server.
Holding the root is not something new, also I have successfully setup a Ubuntu LAMP previously, so it should be a piece of cake. Not knowing that currently I am working with a low end VPS, therefore I decided not to install any control panel and phpmyadmin. I have moved my personal dormant domain, adiwong.com to the webhosting. It comes with one IPv4, so typing 46.23.67.254 will bring you directly to my server, woohoo!
It is up with Apache (comes default), MySQL (needed some upgrade) and PHP (installed). So my website is up, will restore the original website in days to come. Next plan is to try doing multi-domain with one IP that is given to me. Some OS hardening as this unmanaged service is quite scary as there is no backup and they will do no security. Will come out with a plan whereby I will schedule some backup so that I could restore them when needed.
Adi, do you place the VPS in your house?
I am not really know about VPS though.
vps at home?…then i would just use a desktop ….i bought a vps..it cost me like around $35.88/year for 256mb of ram, 10gb of space and 250gb of data transfer …. a puny little server just for me to play around before i put some of my actual website which are live
Can I know where you bought it?USD35 seems cheap for a dedicated server..
*VPS and and dedicated server is the same right?
VPS is like a dedicated server…but actual fact it is a big server…dividing its cpu and ram…making smaller server….you have the root access..whereby you are basically god in your server…
there is a lot at lowendbox.com but due to most of them are in the US, some server are slow