It is very important to know how to set up your VPS from the command line, but it is obviously a very long way of doing things. Every time you want to change something you need to login trough SSH and issue commands, than next time you want to change something else you do the whole procedure all [...]
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My Basic VPS Guide [10.] – Some useful links to help you out!
I have been talking a lot about how to initially configure your Linux Virtual Private Server in the last weeks. Today I realized it would be nice to add something more to this blog and Guide as many such tutorials lack one thing. They talk about the configuration and set-up process. they give you tons [...]
My basic VPS guide [7.] – Logins and securing your pre-release phase
Well, last time here we set up a password-less login process for our VPS. This means we do not need to enter any passwords while trying to login to our VPS Linux box. We could use a password if we configured the SSH key which we generated, to ask for one, but I think it’s [...]
My basic VPS guide [6.] – How to search for new software
OK, now I think we have gone a long journey ’till now. We have already covered these steps up until now: We have changed our root password trough console and added a new user with sudo privileges We have updated our Linux box [Fedora or Debian] We have configured our Linux Box to use SSH [...]
My basic VPS guide [5.] – SSH passwordless login
The last time here in this series we talked about the two different possibilities of logging in to your VPS server. The first and less exhausting way is to just use “plain” SSH in the form ssh -p ssh_port_number your_login_name@your_vps_ip. We set up the sshd_config file to accept these connections, but I told you there [...]
My basic VPS guide [4.] – Configuring SSH
Today I will cover some useful commands you should most definitely know. One of the topics I will discuss today is the way of how to log in to your system. I know this might seem obvious, but using SSH and password is not the best practice for logging in. It’s a secure, but an [...]
My basic VPS guide [3.]
Last time here I have talked about how to keep Debian Linux up to date and thus tighten the security of your VPS operating system. Today we will mention one more possible scenario. Although Debian is a very common operating system on servers it is not the only Linux distro found there. Another very poplar [...]
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