tryingtothink

I’ve recently switched this site’s hosting from Dreamhost to Linode. I’ve always wanted to manage my own server, but until this point I’ve been either too lazy or too busy to learn. I looked for VPS solutions for a while, but I never found any that I liked or that I could afford; until I found Linode. My first encounter with Linode was through the Rails Rumble Competition I was in. After seeing what they had to offer, I couldn’t hold out any longer.

I’m now a server administrator of sorts.

For $20/month I have a VPS w/ 360MiB of RAM and 10 gigs of space. Not bad! Within the first hour or so, I had Debian loaded and running lighttpd with PHP. I later found out I messed everything up and that my heart longed for Apache, so I started over. Within a few days I had setup Apache2+PHP+FastCGI+SuExec, MySQL, Subversion, Postfix/Courier and FTP and found time to move all of my sites to the new server. Whew!

For those looking for help with Linode setup, here’s a list of guides I used to setup my server:

• Debian 4.0 Server Guide
• Howto: ISP-style Email Server with Debian-Etch and Postfix
• HowTo: Apache2, SuExec, PHP5 and FastCGI for Virtual Domains

If you’re looking for a good VPS, I suggest taking a look at Linode. So far, I’m loving the move (and no, I’m not being paid to say this).

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