Comments on: Set Up Unmanaged VPS (4 Newbies) - Part 2: Set Up a VPS Linux Distribution

By: the_guv

the_guv — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:32:23 +0000

@Job .. big cheers, appreciate that.

By: Job

Job — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:53:25 +0000

Very clear instructions and professional delivery! Thanks so much.

By: Giwrgos

Giwrgos — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:02:48 +0000

Very nice tut-guide-walkthrough-bible awesomely done for linux newbies like me! Recently i am giving a try to Centos. Could you be so kind and -just minor edits- add the equivelant commands of Centos that you are using? would be great help. Also been looking for a vps host, and i like your work in review of linode. Thank you again. Greetings from Greece.

By: the_guv

the_guv — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:20:56 +0000

@Mike .. m8, that is a geezer comment. of course, we aim to please! thaaaaaaaaaank you. cracking.

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 03:47:06 +0000

Ollie my boy you are a godsend!! I just discovered your tutorial videos on Google video learning to set up firewalls for a web server (for some sites I am developing in WordPress child themes) from the Command Line Interface in Ubuntu and just came across your site. Wow!! Extensive, detailed, straight-forward and EXTREMELY EXTREMELY Helpful. Your blog truly is the essence of Web 2.0.. Keep it coming mate I am addicted to your knowledge database that you provide on your site and will spread the word.. keep it coming.. A new fan..

By: the_guv

the_guv — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 04:30:14 +0000

@Jacqueline .. hi, sorry for delay.

hmmn .. why windows? and why joomla? well, i guess joomla's fair enough .. but why windows? why oh why, dear lady, why windows?

truth is, no. I googled it for you and it was me at the top of the results! sorry.

out of interest, really, why windows?! if you only pay by the month, cancel it, get a regular linux vps and follow this guide, is genuinely the best advice i can give.

as for joomla, that will be dead simple to set up ... very similar to how i say to set up wordpress in these pages. set up the vps as per whatever guide, and then just add joomla as you would add site files .. and joomla themselves will doubtless have good docs and a healthy forum.

By: jacqueline

jacqueline — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:15:25 +0000

we just bought an unmanaged windows VPS, could please tell me where i can read about how to set it up and set up the site on it which i would like to choose joomla for.

Thank you

By: oligolli

oligolli — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 22:26:42 +0000

Thanks for all these tutorials, really helped this newbie. I'm on Centos however, so haven't followed them to the letter, but I'm a bit puzzled by the Nginx user and the permissions on /wp-content/uploads. I have no user or group "www-data" on Centos and later on you set the permissions of wordpress files and folders to the group "webmasters". I cannot upload pictures to wordpress unless I change the owner to the nginx user or set chmod 777. Am I missing something?

By: the_guv

the_guv — Sun, 17 May 2009 04:36:14 +0000

@Dave - you are most welcome - comments like yours make it worthwhile. ... from one newbie to another

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 16 May 2009 08:01:21 +0000

Wow.. excellent stuff. You are a God send for newbies like me.
Cheers!