To have a VPS is really a great thing. It gives you so much freedom you can not experience while on a shared hosting platform. As soon as you start using it you are free to do anything you like. You can use all the resources you are given and you are not limited by anything except the resources 
This sounds really great, but with great freedom there comes great responsibility and decisions need to be made about a few things.
You need to care about things you were not used to care about while on a shared hosting platform and now they are a daily routine for you. It is more true when you are on an unmagaed VPS, because while using a managed VPS you can stop bothering about little configuration problems and leave them to your host
My advice: If you do not have the courage to learn something than always go with a managed VPS!!!
Care about the little things…
Unmanaged VPS is great – it’s cheap, it gives you tons of freedom and new opportunities to manage your online life the way you would like it to go and You can always learn new things and develop your skills. The headline of this paragraph tells the whole true story. With an unmanaged VPS and with any VPS you need to start to care about the little things as well. Setting up does not stop at uploading your web page on a shared server. With a VPS you need to set-up the server, configure your DNS server or find an alternative DNS hosting for your DNS entries, secure the whole server and much more. And among those things is the set-up of mail servers and mail forwarding.
Email the easy way…
Generally you do have two options while on a VPS server [or dedicated]. You can run your own mail server. You just set-up your server to server email as well, but you have to add the MX record on your DNS server accordingly. One more thing you need to do is to secure the server as mail server is another way your VPS can get compromised.
The other option is to use something like Google Aps and only adjusting the DNS settings to point to Google’s MX servers. This is a great way of shifting the security and catering to a third party. You do not loose your mails and they stay much more secure, than if you would set-up your own server Google is a big company and thus they know how to secure and set-up everything and this option is for those of you who do not want to make any mistakes But if ou feel like you know what you are doing than go on and run your own MAIL SERVER
In the next part of this article I will cover the process of such a set-up Have a nice day and see you next time here at icethunder.net!
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