Thor's VPS thread

[Thor]

Check out VestaCP, it use it for my personal hosting.
Alternatively, CPanel isn't that expensive if you are looking to monetize later on with WHMCS

I have 3 WHM setups.

Read a few pages back especially my OP.

I am not interested in a gui. I want to learn Linux. I want to understand.

Anyone can run a gui without knowing what's going on under the hood.

In the past 3 days I have learned a hell of a lot about how my cpanel setup Actually achieves what it does.

 

[shadow_man]

Do a hands on Linux exam like the RH ones. You'll learn very quickly

 

[Hamish McPanji]

Or download some of those ebooks. I have a few gigs of ebooks that I never got around to reading

 

[Thor]

Ag I prefer this and I'm making nice progress just hitting a bit of a bump with the bash scripting I think I'm confusing nginx with the user directory structure of Apache.

Once this is done the biggest hurdle will to run am actual mail server.

Since I need to host mail per account as well like cpanel.

 

[Thor]

I am still on windows sadly. (Will move over to linux in time)

Is Putty the go to SSH client for windows?

Maybe I am just using it wrong, but it feels a bit k@k I could never figure out the saved session block since I can never seem to connect to a saved session unless I physically copy the IP into the host name field.

 

[koeksGHT]

Maybe I am just using it wrong, but it feels a bit k@k I could never figure out the saved session block since I can never seem to connect to a saved session unless I physically copy the IP into the host name field.

Double click IP? Also use a ssh key so no password needed. Generate pub/priv with puttygen and copy into ~/.ssh/authorized_keys then in putty set root or whatever as default login and 2 click login. >connection>auth select private key file you saved from puttygen

 

[Thor]

Double click IP? Also use a ssh key so no password needed. Generate pub/priv with puttygen and copy into ~/.ssh/authorized_keys then in putty set root or whatever as default login and 2 click login. >connection>auth select private key file you saved from puttygen

Double clicking the IP loads it into the saved session bar, you still have to highlight it, copy it and paste it in Host Name.

As for the pvt keys, YES I do like it, just a question, how do you guys manage your keys? I have 6 different machines and sometimes I will ssh from a machine not in my name/control.

 

[Thor]

Right. Now that I have a self signed SSL certificate setup, how do I get it to be green?

When I visit the VPS sites It looks like this:

 

[Thor]

Oh boy... Well that was embarrassing.

Apparently NGINX is not pronounced Ninx, but instead it's pronounced Engine X ....

-_-

Not one of my proudest moments talking to support.

For the fear of further embarrassment how is Linux pronounced?

 

[Thor]

Noob Questions that I have to ask in order to get it over with.

Is it possible to host multiple stuff on a single VPS?

I have gotten gitlab and teamspeak working but not sure it it is correct or secure so I thought, letme rather just get this question of of the way and learn form it.

I want to run the following services:

LAMP/LEMP stack, DNS, HTTP, SMTP (So that I can continue with my normal websites + E-mail setups like Cpanel)
postfix + dovecot + clamav + spamassassin
OpenVPN
seafile server (So I can share my files)
SmokePing (To check internet stats)
Piwik (So I can run analytics on the LAMP sites)
BookStack (So I have my own wiki and keep notes and shiat)
vsftpd (I would like to FTP in for the sites to access / var / www /)
GitLab (I was thinking of maybe adding it to githelp.co.za sort of a mybb comunity inspired code hub)
charybdis + atheme (Neighbourhood IRC chat and Notice Board)
Samba + Squid Proxy (SO i can add all my computers to a domain)

 

[vinodh]

For the fear of further embarrassment how is Linux pronounced?

Here's Linus Torvalds explaining how to pronounce his name and how to pronounce Linux:

[video=youtube;5IfHm6R5le0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IfHm6R5le0[/video]

 

[Hamish McPanji]

Don't overload your vps with schit you don't really need. It will take a performance hit on your core functions

 

[Thor]

Don't overload your vps with schit you don't really need. It will take a performance hit on your core functions

I get that part but assume it's a 24Gb ram 2 x Xenon beast.

 

[rward]

Is it possible to host multiple stuff on a single VPS?

I have gotten gitlab and teamspeak working but not sure it it is correct or secure so I thought, letme rather just get this question of of the way and learn form it.

I want to run the following services:

LAMP/LEMP stack, DNS, HTTP, SMTP (So that I can continue with my normal websites + E-mail setups like Cpanel)
postfix + dovecot + clamav + spamassassin
OpenVPN
seafile server (So I can share my files)
SmokePing (To check internet stats)
Piwik (So I can run analytics on the LAMP sites)
BookStack (So I have my own wiki and keep notes and shiat)
vsftpd (I would like to FTP in for the sites to access / var / www /)
GitLab (I was thinking of maybe adding it to githelp.co.za sort of a mybb comunity inspired code hub)
charybdis + atheme (Neighbourhood IRC chat and Notice Board)
Samba + Squid Proxy (SO i can add all my computers to a domain)

Yes, all that, and more, is possible

 

[rward]

Once this is done the biggest hurdle will to run am actual mail server.

Are you really sure you want to do that?
You do know that after configuration, it takes a while to 'ramp up the ip address' so everything you're sending doesn't end in spam.

Are you sure you're ready to trouble shoot users email problems and you know enough about mail systems?

I'm not too sure about this.....

 

[rward]

Mail is a dick. Delivery problems are arse. Debugging is hell. Maybe run your own domains mail for a couple of months before providing for clients..

 

[Genisys]

Is it possible to host multiple stuff on a single VPS?

Yes it is... Up to a point anyway.

I have gotten gitlab and teamspeak working but not sure it it is correct or secure so I thought, letme rather just get this question of of the way and learn form it.

I want to run the following services:

LAMP/LEMP stack, DNS, HTTP, SMTP (So that I can continue with my normal websites + E-mail setups like Cpanel)
postfix + dovecot + clamav + spamassassin

Why though? Why not just get Google Apps and add multiple domains to it for email?

OpenVPN
seafile server (So I can share my files)

Dropbox. Owncloud if you want to do it yourself.

SmokePing (To check internet stats)

What stats? Smokeping is primarily used to monitor Latency, Packet Loss and to send out alerts (have never had any use for alerts)

Piwik (So I can run analytics on the LAMP sites)

Cloudflare or Google Analytics.

BookStack (So I have my own wiki and keep notes and shiat)

Google Docs? Word Documents?

ftp(I would like to FTP in for the sites to access / var / www /)
GitLab (I was thinking of maybe adding it to githelp.co.za sort of a mybb comunity inspired code hub)

Why not GitHub? Twitter, Facebook, Microsoft and countless other big corporations trust GitHub?

charybdis + atheme (Neighbourhood IRC chat and Notice Board)

Why not use Freenode? All of this adds up to your resource usage. There are a few local IRC servers as well. Plus, most people would prefer WhatsApp.

Samba + Squid Proxy (SO i can add all my computers to a domain)

That is meant to be hosted on site. You really don't want to struggle to connect to a domain controller when you really need to get onto a computer urgently.

Use the resources wisely.

 

[Thor]

Are you really sure you want to do that?
You do know that after configuration, it takes a while to 'ramp up the ip address' so everything you're sending doesn't end in spam.

Are you sure you're ready to trouble shoot users email problems and you know enough about mail systems?

I'm not too sure about this.....

No no this is for me.

Guys, All of this is me!

My clients and professional services are serviced by WHM and Cpanel no way in hell I would provide a service that I don't understand yet.

 

[Thor]

Mail is a dick. Delivery problems are arse. Debugging is hell. Maybe run your own domains mail for a couple of months before providing for clients..

Not for clients. All me.

I want to learn! I want to understand I am a sponge

 

[Thor]

Yes it is... Up to a point anyway.



Why though? Why not just get Google Apps and add multiple domains to it for email?



Dropbox. Owncloud if you want to do it yourself.



What stats? Smokeping is primarily used to monitor Latency, Packet Loss and to send out alerts (have never had any use for alerts)



Cloudflare or Google Analytics.



Google Docs? Word Documents?



Why not GitHub? Twitter, Facebook, Microsoft and countless other big corporations trust GitHub?



Why not use Freenode? All of this adds up to your resource usage. There are a few local IRC servers as well. Plus, most people would prefer WhatsApp.



That is meant to be hosted on site. You really don't want to struggle to connect to a domain controller when you really need to get onto a computer urgently.

Use the resources wisely.

Makes sense, I went out of my way to go and find stuff to do on the VM :crylaugh: