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November 03, 2004
About This Blog
I started building my websites since 2001 and only used shared hosting until last week. As the websites growing, I feel a strong need of a dedicated server. Shared web hosting is very limited in many aspects, such as disk space, traffic volumn and shell access, the last one is most important to me.
After looking around for a while - mainly on WebHostingTalk.com, I got three option to get my own server:
1. A fully managed dedicated server (ex. theplanet.com), but it is too expensive for me at the moment.
2. An unmanaged dedicated server. There are some really cheap options (under $70/month), e.g. 15minuteservers.com, iPowerWeb.com, etc. But you have to take care of everything yourself, such as system upgrade, backup, security, etc. After I considered it very carefully and decided not to go for it, at least before I have reasonable Linux knowledge.
3. VPS, this is my final decision, VPS stands for virtual private server, I never heard of this word before. Basically it's a server running like a dedicated server, but you are actually sharing with other people, for more information about VPS, please visit my VPS provider's website: ServInt.com.
I ordered my VPS last week and started transferring all my websits. It's really hard for a Linux newbie like me, I feel lost in most time, Fortunately ServInt has very fast support and a private VPS forum to ask all my dumb questions :-). Now all my sites have been up and running, although I still have a lot of things to do. During this time, I came across with many question as well as some nice tips, which urges me to write everything down to make my life easier in the future.
My background:
I'm a Java programmer with little Linux knowledge, especially on administration part. should I blame my nice system administrator colleagues :-)? They always setup a very convenient environment for us developers, when I need to do something on our server, normally all I have to do is running a shell script to get everything done.
If you are also a Linux newbie, I hope this blog is a little useful to you; If you are an expert, that's great, any comment on my posts is much appreciated.
Category : General
Posted by FreeBSD Newbie at November 3, 2004 08:22 AM
Comments
Hello,
Followed your link from ServInt. Enjoyed the comment about your "system administrator colleagues".
Definitely can be a steep learning curve but I believe you have chosen one of the best providers.
Regards,
Ed
Posted by Ed at November 4, 2004 03:42 AM
Hi Ed,
Thanks for your comment! Yes, it's hard but also very fun. It's always very exciting for me to learn something new, especially hot Linux :-). I tried to learn it before, but installing it on my home computer without any pressure is very different with managing a real server.
Regards, KP
Posted by Linux Newbie at November 4, 2004 04:55 AM
(sorry this is all run together - I don't know how to force new lines)...
Regarding your question:
3. It seems that the MAILTO sends all cron jobs result, I don't want to watch every task, is it possible to specify only certain cron jobs?
You can redirect the output of a cron job to null, then it won't be mailed to you. Where you currently have the command to execute, such as:
/path/to/somecommand
change it to be like this:
/path/to/somecommand >/dev/null
Since you can redirect to null on individual jobs, you can choose those jobs which you no longer want email from.
Eric
Posted by Eric at November 5, 2004 10:43 PM