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Set Up Unmanaged VPS (4 Newbies) - Part 20: Blogroll, Links, Credits, Resources

Set Up Unmanaged VPS (4 Newbies) – Part 20: Blogroll, Links, Credits, Resources

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This reference to the best Virtual Private Server and Linux online resources range from basic beginner guides to advanced web server configuration tutorials.

Coupled with the the_guv’s original VPS Bible series, now forked to Guvnr’s sistasite at vpsBible.com, they ensure that even the greenest of Linux newbies can build an unmanaged VPS from ‘blank box to cute-as server’.

The general documentation covers Linux, Ubuntu, virtual private servers and email. The security guides are about openSSH, PuTTY and IPtables. The web server reference concerns PHP, MySQL, Nginx itself and sub-topics such as FastCGI, WordPress and Subversion.


Set Up an Unmanaged VPS (4 Newbies) .. The V-P-S Bible

In 20 copy/paste steps .. from zero to hero, blank box to cute-as Linux server.

Scroll down for the full series index.

So, hey, shed shared & viva virtual!   Hope it helps.   the_guv

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Linux Basics

Ubuntu Basics

  • Seogadget.co.uk .. How to Install Ubuntu : The Ubuntu Installation Guide
  • Psychocats.net .. Ubuntu Linux Resources
  • Ubuntutip .. tips for beginners with Ubuntu 8.04
  • Ubuntu Community .. the excellent and uber-helpful Ubuntu community
  • Iheartlinux.com .. various topics
  • Ubuntu 8.04 LTS .. with support ’till 2013, Hardy Heron is my choice for Ubuntu server distribution and is used in this guide

VPS Basics

  • VPS BIBLE – “Setup Unmanaged VPS for Noobs!”

    Constantly revised, the original VPS Bible, featuring Ubuntu Server and Nginx web server, now using PHP-FPM and sporting configurations for content platforms like Drupal (7 and Multi-Sites), WordPress (and MU).

    Here’s the index:-


SETUP an Unmanaged VPS (4 Newbies) .. The V-P-S Bible

Serve multi sites & blogs on a budget .. at the fastest possible speed .. with the least downtime .. in the most secure environment .. and future-proofed for easy admin.

That's what the VPS Bible is about, stepped out in simple copy & paste guides.

From high traffic WordPress blogs to startup web hosts, here's what you need.

Click here if you're running a LINUX PC locally

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    Appendix 1a: Nginx Control Panel

    You’re migrating shared-to-VPS and want a GUI like cPanel? No you don’t, not after you read this! What’s more, you don’t need one either.

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    Appendix 1b: Nginx Control Panel Workarounds

    For every control panel module there's an equivalent terminal command. They're all linked from here so, hey, no excuses!

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    Appendix 2: Add Web Sites Nginx Cheatsheet

    Once you’ve set up your first site, adding more gets easier. Especially when you can refer to this. (Let's face it, I'm just too good to you.)

And in case that wasn’t enough :P ..

PuTTY – the CLI tool

OpenSSH – the secure protocol

IPtables – the firewall

PHP Basics

MySQL Basics

Email

Nginx – the web server

WordPress on Nginx

Subversion – versioning software

A BIG TXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Without many of these pages this VPS Bible would not have been written, nor the video tutorials possible. A great big tx to the open information culture, and I hope this series in turn puts my own content karma firmly in the black :D

Similarly, a mighty big tx to the many dozens of forum users out there, whose questions and explanations helped me pick together the detail of the VPS Bible series.

And especially a big cheers to the folks at Linode that loaned me a VPS to play with. Damn, I’m weeks overdue, and I hope that this public grovelling ensures that they don’t decide to charge me the difference :P

Related posts:

  1. Set Up Unmanaged VPS (4 Newbies) – Part 17: Nginx Control Panel Workarounds
  2. Set Up Unmanaged VPS (4 Newbies) – Part 5: Encrypt Data with OpenSSH & Auto-Login with PuTTY
  3. Set Up Unmanaged VPS (4 Newbies) – Part 3: Set Up Command Line Interface (CLI) using PuTTY
  4. Set Up Unmanaged VPS (4 Newbies) – Part 15: WordPress Setup & Updates from the Command Line
  5. Set Up Unmanaged VPS (4 Newbies) – Part 16: Nginx Control Panel
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  5. Paul Maneesilasan September 28th, 2009 at 5:05 am

    First off, great tutorials! totally relevant and useful! Now that i’m at the end, I was wondering if you had any advise on backups. In my case, I have my disk space partitioned in two halves. I have been just hitting duplicate on the main one, to a copy image using the remaining space. however I think i can mount the second partition, and do some type of disk imaging to there? Maybe even do an rsync? Certainly that would be loads faster.

    What do you recommend?

    Curious, thanks and kudos!
    -Paul

  6. the_guv October 6th, 2009 at 6:41 am

    hey Paul .. thank you, thank you, Sir.

    ha, yes rsync and cron, that’ll do .. i’ve got the damn thing half-written! give me a couple weeks because i seem to have a bunch of tuts half-written :P Meantime, no need to lose your shirt, in the VPS ADMIN series there’s a couple guides already for casual backups ..

    dbs .. Backup/Export MySQL DB with CLI & mysqldump
    files .. Backup or Upload with Secure Copy SCP (Linux/Linux)
    files alt .. Backup or Upload with PuTTY PSFTP (Windows/Linux)

    will have this knocked out though. actually, i need to update the index for VPS ADMIN .. it’s changed (and grown) again, heh.

  7. Manuel Bejarano November 12th, 2009 at 11:40 pm

    Dear Olly Connelly

    First off, great tutorials!

    Im writing from mexico and i just passed lpi 1 & 2 exams ^__^ (im looking forward to RH cert too so these tutorials gave me a glance of what can be done with a vps), i have 3 questions, i work for a hosting company and we use DirectAdmin to manage our services and so the clients have a CP, using this great bible can we:

    1. instead of using nginx, use DA? or do you think it would consume a lot of resources?
    2. The ConfigServer Firewall be used?
    3. The backups be done using bacula? or you recomend rsync?

    Once again thanx so much for your tutorials and thanx for anyone who anwers this too.

    Cheers

    Manuel

  8. the_guv November 13th, 2009 at 9:46 am

    @Manuel .. cheers to you.

    No idea what any of those exams are, but very best of luck with them. Being a late developer, transpired that I learnt absolutely everything web-wise from the university of google, which is one of the main reasons i felt compelled to give something back with this blog .. gotta love opensource, whether it’s software or wisdom. I was a hack for years, wasting my time with some real jobsworth companies .. sometimes I wonder what I’d be doing now had I started ripping up Linux from the age of dot .. guess I’ll just have to live an extra 20 years to catch up! Mucha suerte, amigo.

    “1. instead of using nginx, use DA? or do you think it would consume a lot of resources?”

    Don’t get your meaning here. I’m sure you know Nginx is a web server and DirectAdmin is a control panel. But if I answer what I think is your question, they are not compatible, no. They would be, if someone wrote a module for DA to snuggle up to Nginx.

    .. I’ve researched this heavily. The closest anyone has got to making a CP mod for Nginx is with Webmin, which is probably better that any other CP anyhow cos it’s so light. For some background on this, check out Nginx Control Panel and, for the required CP workarounds, Nginx Control Panel Workarounds.

    Of course, the VPS Admin series – Maintain Unmanaged VPS (4 Newbies) .. V-P-S Admin, the sequel to the VPS Bible – sets out the actual workarounds and is a work in progress.

    “2. The ConfigServer Firewall be used?”

    Never used it, but probably all it does is to configure your pre-existing iptables, which is your firewall, so I imagine so. As well as the Bible’s Set Up Unmanaged VPS (4 Newbies) – Part 6: Harden the Secure Shell (SSH) & Create a Firewall, you may find some useful reference in the Jaunty Bible’s security tutorial, which is crammed with handy links too .. Shield Your Linux Box: iptables & Much Much More. But essentially, why not just configure iptables?

    “3. The backups be done using bacula? or you recomend rsync?”

    Never used bacula .. rsync is nice. Would be interested to hear other folks suggestions on this.

    ***

    Overall, I think you have to survey your clients, and your web hosting strategy. If they want simplicity over performance, Nginx is not the way to go. If they want performance and you guys, or they, are prepared to carry out a little sys admin, Nginx is an option, at least for one part of your solution. Or, pay/cajole someone to develop that Webmin module .. go to Webmin’s site and search for me/Nginx on the forums adn join in the chat .. maybe together we can speed up development of that mod. .. Likely, that is the key to your satisfaction of the Nginx solution for your needs: a Webmin module.

    Feed me back .. yours is an interesting scenario.

  9. Manuel Bejarano November 13th, 2009 at 7:58 pm

    Thanx Olly

    LPI Exams are a way to certified yourself about linux you can get more info here: http://www.lpi.org/

    About RH well those are the redhat certified program but im still studying for those cause the exams are a little bit difficult, more info here:
    http://www.redhat.com/certification/

    You anwer gave the final push to aquire a linode account ^___^ (dunno if i can make a reference to you, but rest asure i’ll let them now ^__^)

    I also found this: http://www.directadmin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=20133&highlight=nginx

    So i’m going to try webmin & give it a shot and to DA as well thanx the tip to look for you in webmin looking forward to that

    About the backup i also notice the FAQ in linode, so im going to make some space to do duplicate disks and why not keep on testing with rsync and bacula

    Thanx again

    -Manuel

  10. The Boss November 15th, 2009 at 2:18 am

    Guvnr – yeah but — all this is well and fine – but what about making full system backups – back to our windows boxes. I can’t find a working way yet – and rsync/dervish seems a real brain basher…

    Would be appreciated

    The Boss

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