How to manage unmanaged VPS
Hello webmasters, I just bought a VPS from Hostgator. I tried the lowest package and see whats inside. I understand that it is unmanaged and the only thing installed to the system is the OS and a panel called Virtuozzo. Unfortunately, I dont know how to get around with my new VPS and this is my first time to see the root of Linux and first time to know about Putty and SSH. It is really a bit overwhelming and until now (over one week) I still cannot figure out how to install my own software and where to upload my websites. I already found the pulic_html folder, and uploaded index.html to it, but I cannot axis it via http://##.###.##/ (##.###.## is my IP address) which I expected to return the webpage I uploaded but didn't.
I have many many questions, few of these are as follows.
- Do I need to add a client so to hold a specific domain? (I read it somewhere but I forget where). If yes, please give me a guide (a link will be much appreciated).
- How to install my own application in the VPS (I think it is running in CENT OS but not sure). I need to install latex to the root. Where will I upload the installer and how to run it?
- In what folder do I upload index.html so that it is visible via http://my-ip-address/
- I can only work with that VPS up to two hours at night because I have a day job, will I survive this Linux thing?
I hope I am not too much but I am really really lost.
Greg K posted this at 04:13 — 7th November 2009.
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I went to their site to see what all I could find out about their VPS, however couldn't even find anything listing VPS on there???
If you are running CentOS, yum install will be your friend on getting things set up. I'm just getting used to CentOS 5.3 myself. i have it running on two dell servers here, and that is the OS we run on our servers at work for most of our servers.
-Greg
RTFVerterra posted this at 14:17 — 7th November 2009.
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Hello Greg K, thank you about yum installation, I Googled it, and I will try it. Yes, I am using CentOS 5 according to my Virtuozzo panel.
About Hostgator VPS product, you can find their official announcement here and you can find their VPS packages here.
Update: They installed 45-day trial of WHM VPS Optimized in my package and it keeps me going now but I still don't know where to install my own application (LaTex)
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digitlimit posted this at 13:07 — 1st May 2011.
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Hi all, am a novice is VPS, i know liitle in Sun Solaris and some basic linux commands . have never used VPS before.. I am preparing to move to VPS from Shared hosting...
However, i can't afford to pay for managed VPS now... Please advice me... I don't wanna buy VPS that will watse b/cos of my lack of knowledge...
Do u think that someone with little Linux Knowledge can manage VPS by himself...
Please what exactly do i need to know before i can become VPS admin?
Thanks
Emeka
exabee posted this at 09:00 — 13th May 2011.
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RTFVerterra> VPS is self-manged hosting package. If you are novice to VPS, you may consider to purchase the license of control panel from your hosting provider. With the control panel, you can control your website better. Otherwise, you have do it with command prompt.
digilimit> VPS is always better than shared hosting. Because VPS has it own CPU, RAM where it all at your own usage. Shared hosting package is at a shared environment. Your site will be affected if someone overload your server.
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