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 [...]
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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 [...]
VPS technologies – which one to choose? [OpenVZ vs. XEN]
Well as a customer you do not always have the freedom to choose whatever you want. You are very often limited by a few key factors as your budget, the OS you need, the speed of service etc. And today I will talk about one technology which dictates how much you will pay for your [...]
Your website on a VPS is not working? Troubleshooting…
Well, two days and two very different forum posts catched my attention. We know what I suggested yesterday and I will cover some of my suggestions on today’s case in this article. The whole thing is related to a pretty annoying problem. You upload your web site online, set-up your VPS correctly [DNS, web server [...]
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 [...]
My Basic VPS guide [2.]
Last time here at Icethunder.net in this guide we talked about the very basic commands you should most definitely use as soon as you get your invitation email from your web host. Just to review it for a little we have already set up a root password we could use to login trough SSH, we [...]
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