-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hi Martin,
Am 27.06.2015 um 00:23 schrieb J Martin Rushton: > Option 1) Can you run a VM within your VPS? Some systems work, > others throw a fit if you try it. If it does work, then you can > build and model your desired main system within the VM. > > Option 2) A basic development machine like a Raspberry Pi will > give you a machine to play with. > > Option 3) Will your home machine run up a VM? You only need to > access it from your real machine for test purposes. Option 2) was quite charming, and I would have gone that way if I hadn't decided to rather use the one-month money-back guarantee of my ISP and just get my feet wet with the new server. > > Whatever option you choose I would recommend for the long term > getting to grips with "raw" Linux. With 10 years under your belt > you ought to know all the basics, use the various fora and man > pages to flesh out your knowledge. Even consider buying "dead > tree" documentation - £50 on a good book will quickly repay itself, > it's less than an hour's chargeout time. I borrowed a serious and current book from the library, and that seems to give me what I want. Although being around 1.200 pages long it gies quite concise introductions to the different parts, with quite reliable walk-through configurations. With the mentioned 10 years this gives me enough baby-sitting to help myself once their introduction ends or if I encounter something unexpected in the preset configuration. > > The web server ought to be virtually out-of-the-box and all > distros come with some sort of mail server: postfix is generally > easier than sendmail. Yes, postfix was there and mostly pre-configured, but I had to install dovecot, spamassassin and clamav manually. I think the set-up is now working properly, although I couldn't test with an actual domain yet. (It's funny that you can fully configure the mail server with several domains even if there's no DNS yet. So I can send and receive an email through Thunderbird, and that doesn't even leave the server because it's all routed internally.) Best Urs > > HTH, Martin > > On 26/06/15 21:34, Urs Liska wrote: >> Hi all, > >> I'm in (some) need for feedback regarding the complexity of >> (web) server administration. I am running a "virtual private >> server", which is a virtual machine in a server of an ISP's >> server farm. So I "own" root access to a full Debian >> installation, with all responsibility for it but also all >> possibilities. > >> This server is "managed" by Plesk, a comprehensive server >> administration tool. This has probably helped me a lot getting >> everything to run in the first place, but by now I'm rather >> annoyed by the fact that it does so many things "the Plesk way" >> instead of sticking to proven Linux ways. It significantly >> interferes with domain and web server management, provides its >> own mechanism to install "apps" etc. As a result it obscures away >> tons of things and makes it very hard to find documentation and >> assistance for more or less default tasks such as configuring >> virtual hosts on Apache (to make web apps like Gitlab work). > >> By now I'm so annoyed that I consider changing this and "falling >> back" to a plain Linux server. But OTOH I'm reluctant to do so >> because then I would *have* to do everything on my own, >> presumably all on the command line and without the convenient web >> interface. So is anybody able to give me an estimate how big the >> risks are that I end up with a system that doesn't do what I need >> at all? Well, the basic things I'd need to set up properly are - >> web server - a small number of domains and a bigger number of >> subdomains - mail server and accounts - mailman This is what I >> would rely on having set up more or less instantly in order to >> avoid outage. Everything else, from Git server and LilyPond >> building over dynamic DNS or whatever could wait and accept to >> be more hassle-like. > >> I am by now a rather seasoned Linux user, having installed, >> maintained and used my installations on several computers for >> nearly 10 years. I have administered my current server through >> the SSH console to some extent already. But of course I'm far >> from being a competent sysadmin. > >> I know this is extremely hard to tell for anyone else. But maybe >> you *do* have some comments for me that might help me deciding >> whether to go in that direction or not. > >> Best Urs > > > _______________________________________________ lilypond-user > mailing list [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJVm6FDAAoJEAmmJgM7zMPO378P/3FqXwpZbK17RrJLsv2w6/wW FCWomnn1ognztzh9vIEmKDlcHOeR+c2pSU06uf3Q9r6nNL7q8EIKDH5DDhFEjWaa fGJ3Q4CbM5snyFM1UmTgn+Ny65yTdaA8nZDGxReTtLe9/mSbJUUQBCrwvHABWFAl 72amPQHuvzUhTONGXlqqeZs8mlZ31RrLtFausI2+HYv7Tyhk2Gh0umLgk1PDPgb+ oBslxgtEE3Sej4AcvXZ4F4M0TtKk8l/oDYll55QBzYFj5mcHrzngiDAgHczUOHBL LYbvvVLNpDKJ5zHrIcC4nS3C/CkOi2xU5g9aJPk4GvX30T8SW75GjTPBIaIyy1Wd OsybWU2Pt0wxfEQt1czdcP7NYOH1lD2OULMJIjcScR20+luVbv9QKkuPYxfw+YDI PUb7JdzJbiLi/yysunU9lmtR6YjNU6K3Dd1TNg6ctoy045frXt5qlNGs2ukdXO3M kEzYAscWWHC9ct8epldRYvYm8qOHT7y8rWUY0iqVxmun7/8E5bDPB5ahIp/SmP2M +I+94tN+jlfEN30vooPq6/TlIOZV4PjzyCiqQR0dGGdFscJ+WAFIP4ILTYTuh4YO tYq/VKWJCZB/XE05jcyIJKGw4s+vUkVHg26RA2BwKibABEFZomJlQxTNZ74vS42W sAKyhRlmcyJ7zlsFqOvd =/+6/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
