How To Use a Linux Virtual Private Server 303
Nerval's Lobster writes "Game developer David Bolton writes: 'For my development of Web games, I've hit a point where I need a Virtual Private Server. (For more on this see My Search for Game Hosting Begins.) I initially chose a Windows VPS because I know Windows best. A VPS is just an Internet-connected computer. "Virtual" means it may not be an actual physical computer, but a virtualized host, one of many, each running as if it were a real computer. Recently, though, I've run into a dead end, as it turns out that Couchbase doesn't support PHP on Windows. So I switched to a Linux VPS running Ubuntu server LTS 12-04. Since my main desktop PC runs Windows 7, the options to access the VPS are initially quite limited, and there's no remote desktop with a Linux server. My VPS is specified as 2 GB of ram, 2 CPUs and 80 GB of disk storage. The main problem with a VPS is that you have to self-manage it. It's maybe 90% set up for you, but you need the remaining 10%. You may have to install some software, edit a config file or two and occasionally bounce (stop then restart) daemons (Linux services), after editing their config files.'"
Oh fuck (Score:5, Insightful)
Hire a manager for it or learn to use it. How in hell is this in the front page?
Re:Oh fuck (Score:5, Insightful)
Because it's from Dice: http://news.dice.com/2012/12/10/linux-virtual-private-server/ [dice.com]
(The company that bought Slashdot.)
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Dat's what you think? Unbelievable.
Re:Apt-get install clue (Score:5, Insightful)
Why the fuck would use a window manager on a server. Just a good way to increase security exposure.
The big problem here is the VPS user has no clue about his operating system, this will end in tears, most likely the hacker kind.
Second is, linux server tools don't need a GUI. Even if you had one, you'd just use it to edit txt (conf) files.
All you really need is putty and WinSCP.
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As for a security risk, that is total bullshit. You are running it all through ssh. The only exposure is ssh, and if that is hacked, why bother "hacking" x as well? (Especially since it is not ru
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Because it is not possible to automate and not really useful.
Any task a gui can do a can be done faster without it.
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Define "faster".
Do you mean a task can be scripted to run in batches to use a predefined (dynamic or otherwise) input and output condition? Then yes.
Do you mean an expert in the specific task at hand with experience using the required tools? Then yes.
Do you mean a task can be executed and reach completion faster without the computational overhead of having to load a UI? Then, probably, yes.
For pretty much anything else, it's a wash because the computer isn't the limiting factor. The user is. This isn't
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Which has jack and squat to do with the discussion at hand.
And actually a lot of audio visual work can be more quickly handled by the CLI. Like say if you want to crop a few thousand images in the same way.
Re:Apt-get install clue (Score:5, Insightful)
The OP is using as a server. I'd hope he is following best practices and developing locally (and securely) and deploying on the network. Especially if he is unfamiliar with the production environment.
Ultimately, the OP should probably install VirtualBox or another virtualization solution on his/her Windows 7 desktop, and figure out the deployment strategy before exposing their work on the network. It doesn't cost anything but a little bit of time, and the pay off is understanding what you are pushing out in the real world.
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I have to disagree with this. GUIs are not the end-all-be-all of computing by any means, but they have their uses. I would be loathe to edit graphics using a CLI, for example, other than the most routine rotation, scaling, etc.
Fine and dandy if you're operating on a workstation, if you're doing this on a server (which is the focus of this conversation) you're doing it wrong. Command line graphic manipulation is mature and powerful [imagemagick.org], although not nearly as intuitive as using a GUI. It's worth it in the long run if you're offering services to users that depend on re-sizing photos, watermarking, and related asset generation rather than depending on someone for photoshop macros. Unless you want to argue that Facebook employs an army o
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On the contrary, viewing flat text files, for example, is a lot better than going through eleventyteen different tabs and dialog boxes, and THEN having to go and edit a metabase through the equivalent of PEEK and POKE. Granted IIS has gotten a little better with Windows 2008, but there is no less clicking between a zillion different tabs and dialogs and forms than previous versions.
Just one point (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Apt-get install clue (Score:4, Insightful)
Many photo editing tasks can be done faster without a gui.
Resizing, cropping, converting, compressing, etc.
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Re:Apt-get install clue (Score:5, Insightful)
As for the security risk, you are mostly correct. There is little exposure to running an X app over ssh. A few theoretical issues maybe but, nothing serious.
The thing is, its not what us experienced unix folks do, and with good reason. I have spent more time writing custom scripts to add and manage users than I have used gui tools to manage them. Its nice to be able to click and add a user, its nicer to be able to write a script so I can do it exactly the same way every time, or hand that duty off to someone else with sudo privs and not have to worry about giving him root access, or to implement some custom system where passwords are auto-generated and mailed out etc.....
Frankly the problem isn't the gui tools per se. Its that a linux system is very complicated with a lot of moving parts. On the plus side, this means you can tear it down to the bear minimum and customize it to your hearts content, only limited by your imagination and skill, On the minus side, you can really get out into some major weeds to the point that even the best admins will be calling it a rebuild.
If you are just getting by on gui tools, you are asking for trouble.... HOWEVER..... I don't want to entirely knock them. *I* started out with them. Since then however, I have totally abandoned them. When I use X11 over ssh, you can bet its because I am using something that just gives me no other way. (some software installs...ugh)
My advice would be...if someone wants to seriously go down this path...do it...but do it knowing full well its going ot be a major learning experience. I would setup a second VPS or even a system at home, just to experiment with....
If you really want to get competent: ;) Its also more powerful than you can possibly imagine. It is worth learning.
1. Find out what your tools are REALLY DOING. Find out what the command line equivalents are, see what the differences are.
2. Don't fear vi. It is less true these days that you are likely to find yourself sitting in front of a dead system at 3 am and the only tool that works is vi. Especially on linux (more so than many more traditional systems) vi is not your only option, nor your only good one. All that said.... it *IS* the gold standard for sysadmin editors. Its what the cool kids use
3. Consider learning some shell script. Its very powerful, its also the exact same language you type at the shell. Learning shell syntax will save you time, even if you never save anything to a fixed script.
4. Remember this is a job people get paid and paid well to do. You are dabbling in my career here. Don't expect to be an expert over night, and don't make too many commitments. I have been at it for 12 years professionally.... it takes time and experience to get good.
That said.... it seems this is all about web game development? If so....hey.... development? Have a blast man! However, if you are expecing to actually run code for public consumption? I would be a bit worried, expect downtime while you figure it all out.
Re:Apt-get install clue (Score:5, Informative)
Oh and a couple of things I really should have mentioned.... save yourself some trouble, and make sure you have dos2unix.
Because I know you wont learn vi overnight (or do what i did and avoid it for several years), and you will likely find some shell extention that does sshfs or realize that you can use winscp to sftp into the box and then right click on a file and edit, or you will just copy a file locally and edit it, and reupload.
At some point, you WILL transfer a file that has the wrong line endings, and it will be one of the ones where it matters (there are many times it is not a problem, shell scripts are not one of them). The file command will often tip you off to dos line endings, and dos2unix will do the conversion.
If you want to move a file or several files from one unix machine to another, but have to copy to a windows machine inbetween.... make a tarball and move that instead.
Oh and always set putty and winscp to use blowfish as the first cipher....it speeds up file transfer times significantly over the AES default.
And always make backup copies of config files before you edit them. Consider installing git and using git for this purpose right in /etc
If nothing else, being able to do a "git diff" and see everything you have changed since the last commit will be inordinately helpful when making posts asking for help in online forums.
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Not to mention...if you try usinig/installing some tools, like Oracle, which forces you to use a java GUI to install and other configs....you have to have X running.
Command line only, is often not a valid paradigm, depending on what you want to do with Linux these days, especially if using commercial software on it.
On the plus side, though, having a headless server discourages you from installing Larry's beast and keeping it well fed.
If you've got that much money to burn you might as well install PostgreSQL or (shudder) Hadoop and hire some real competent software/system/* engineers
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Not to mention...if you try usinig/installing some tools, like Oracle, which forces you to use a java GUI to install and other configs....you have to have X running.
Command line only, is often not a valid paradigm, depending on what you want to do with Linux these days, especially if using commercial software on it.
Oracle is a bad example for your point since you don't have to have X running on the target host. You simply need to export your DISPLAY (over your SSH tunnel of course) back to your X workstation. Works fine and you don't need an X server running anywhere it isn't needed. Having X apps and X libraries installed (so you can remote display apps when needed) is much different having X running on a server that is not meant to have direct human interaction (e.g. not a terminal).
And if you are a competent Oracle
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it looks like you just told someone how to do something that you have never done yourself.
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it looks like you just told someone how to do something that you have never done yourself.
Yes, but hopefully it's enough to lead him towards the solution, and I think the response to this article has established that /. readers (commenters?) don't need handholding.
The first Google result is this: https://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=833167 [oracle.com]
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There is a rather poorly documented 'silent install' method you can use...but it isn't as feature rich as the GUi, and if I recall even reading docs from Oracle, they don't recommend you using that method.
Re:Apt-get install clue (Score:4, Informative)
Mod this up further. And learn to use screen.
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tmux and byobu are the modern alternatives. I have quite a hefty .screenrc, but the modern iterations are easier to use and customize.
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I prefer tmux too, but one nice thing about GNU screen is its ability to be a simple dumb terminal (screen /dev/ttyS0 9600 e.g.).
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Because for ex-windows admin the learning is too steep otherwise. I always give new admins a gui and discover that after a year, they stopped using it and use the command shell instead.. Without the gui they stop before they even started...
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You have no clue, when doing X over ssh, the X11 server AND window manager run on your local computer not the remote host. This mean you can run a graphical app on your server, such as a graphical frontend or a file manager, without Xorg or a window manager installed on the server. On the Windows side, you only need putty and Xming ; remote windows behave seamlessly like local Windows windows, though a braindead container window managed by the piece of shit twm is an option.
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You need NXServer.
Consider XFCE for your desktop environment. Leaves more memory for doing things that are actually useful.
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Don't bother, they're just "making" news.
If it weren't for the terms vps, ubuntu and windows 7, I could have swore the article is 10 years old.
I've been "bouncing daemons" since before then.
WTF is it with kids nowadays?
Other than "I did someting I think is cool", what does this article contribute? Nothing.
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Really, even on superuser.com - where this kind of question is _the_ focus, this one would closed as too broad.
Ahem (Score:5, Interesting)
and there's no remote desktop with a Linux server
Spending about 3.8753 seconds on Google would reveal that there are numerous Linux remote desktop clients [techradar.com] which can be downloaded for use.
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Yeah - and Ubuntu server is headless and has none of the libraries you need for that. It's a bone-headed Windows approach that's just going to eat up resources. Writer of the article used PuTTY on Windows to access over SSH and WinSCP for file transfer.
Re:Ahem (Score:5, Informative)
Default install of Ubuntu-server is headless. You can type sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop and you will have a GUI.
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Yes, but does it gain you anything useful?
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RDP clients are typically used to administer Windows machines, but as far as I know, Linux does not have an RDP server. It has VNC and X11, but both of those guys are enormous bandwidth hogs with a limited feature set compared to what RDP is capable of.
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So use NoX or Spice or maybe just maybe be a big boy and use SSH.
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Unless you are busy downloading the world repository of pr0n, gigabit ethernet is more than enough to handle VNC.
Linux does have a RDP server (Score:5, Informative)
www.xrdp.org
Works very well.
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First of all, "enormous bandwidth hog" is completely different from "doesn't exist". Second of all, I dispute the claim WRT to VNC. And third of all, it doesn't matter since there is an RDP server [sourceforge.net] for Linux! Took me all of about 20 seconds to find.
But I agree with other posters that a remote desktop, no matter which variation you choose to use, is a poor way to administer a Linux server. If bandwidth is a concern, straight SSH uses far less than RDP. And anyway, most of the most common server software is d
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Actually, a whole lot of Linux servers are administered via a web interface. Which, again, makes RPD a silly, waste-of-time approach.
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Also, quite possibly, the VPS host provides Security Holes through VNC to access the virtualized "physical" screen and keyboard.
There, fixed that for you.
n00b (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:n00b (Score:5, Informative)
Have you looked at Ubuntu Server Edition lately? They have an LTS version that's supported for 5 years of security updates without updating to a new distro release. Debian doesn't come close.
Re:n00b (Score:5, Interesting)
As a side note, I have to mention that I have never had an Ubuntu install of any type - desktop or server - that didn't fall into dependency hell upon doing a dist-upgrade. Archlinux for desktops, Debian for servers.
Re:n00b (Score:4, Informative)
>Debian Stable is the epitome of long term support
Actually, it's absolutely not. Long Term Support means that when I deploy a set of services on a system, I know exactly how long I have before I need to qualify, test, and roll out that application when the current version reaches EOL. Many of the clients I've worked with take a year or more to do such a qualification (because of complex applications, lacking test suites, lacking development resources, etc...).
Note on the Debian Wikipedia page that the only supported version (6.0/squeeze) lists "supported until" as "TBA".
Every other LTS release out there (Ubuntu, RHEL/CentOS, SLES), lists multiple supported releases, with end of life dates in the future. For example, Ubuntu lists 5 currently supported releases, the most recent of which is supported until April 2017. CentOS lists 2, the most recent of which is supported until the end of 2020.
I love Debian, but I do not recommend my clients use it for servers. Right now, if a client deployed their services on the most recent Debian server, they have no idea when the End of Life is going to be. The current release will go End of Life a year after the next version is released. The next version has been in freeze since June 30, 2012, so this could be any time now. If testing for migration to a new OS takes a year (which is not uncommon in my experience), you could deploy a service and immediately need to start working on migrating it.
RHEL, on the other hand, you can deploy it today and know that you don't HAVE to migrate until 2020.
As a production sys admin I assert that it's not reasonable to run a server in production that is not receiving security updates.
So, as far as Debian as an LTS release: Just don't.
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Follow this tutorial. If you don't like ISPConfig, try another setup on howtoforge and see how it works for you: http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-ubuntu-12.04-lts-apache2-bind-dovecot-ispconfig-3 [howtoforge.com]
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The difference is we did not post our ignorance on the frontpage of slashdot and have it accepted.
And your problem is .... ? (Score:5, Informative)
.... you are new to Linux, and you need some help?
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Beginners/FAQ [ubuntu.com]
gus
Re:And your problem is .... ? (Score:4, Insightful)
If you follow the link, you'll note it's not actually an "ask /." article. I think it's meant to be like a how-to, except written by someone who doesn't really know how to.
Maybe it's ironic?
Re:And your problem is .... ? (Score:5, Insightful)
II think it's meant to be like a how-to, except written by someone who doesn't really know how to.
God, I think you're right. Truly pathetic. Maybe I'll write a How-To Use Windows Server article that complains about the lack of proper command-line and web admin tools, and the lack of /dev/ and /etc/ directories. It would make about as much sense as this nonsense.
Re:And your problem is .... ? (Score:5, Insightful)
I would love to see your article posted on the front page of Slashdot like this one. At least I know yours would be written in a humorous vein...
Please stop (Score:5, Insightful)
Stop trolling us slashdot... this aint news and it aint a legitimate question... please just stop.
Re:Please stop (Score:4, Insightful)
The above poster is insightful moreso than flamebait. It's fucking serious man. "Trolling" as in "Trolling for comments with a dumb-as-fuck baited question". Please, Slashdot. We value your minimal editorial skills, and now even those are lacking now. Stop trolling us. What's next? "How to use a Linux root terminal" posted by someone who's only ever used iPhones?
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"How do I use my keyboard? I'm so confused by the many buttons!" :-)
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Submit that as a topic.
I want to see that on the frontpage. At least by submitting maybe the editors will get a clue.
Self-hosted for development (Score:2)
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Why do that, my way over powered windows box can run 4 virtual servers with 2GB of ram each with plenty to spare. Just download VirtualBox and setup a test server on your own machine. Should work exactly like a VPS
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I'll try and make the first useful comment of the discussion (so, it has nothing to do with the article).
I've been using Vagrant [vagrantup.com] to manage development VMs. It automates using VirtualBox. There's an example on that homepage:
$ vagrant box add base http://files.vagrantup.com/lucid32.box [vagrantup.com]
$ vagrant init
$ vagrant up
which leaves you will a running Ubuntu lucid install. Apart from the once-only download of the base image, it takes about 15 seconds to do this.
I've customised the vagrant configuration and added Pup
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I'll try and make the first useful comment of the discussion (so, it has nothing to do with the article).
I've been using Vagrant [vagrantup.com] to manage development VMs. It automates using VirtualBox. There's an example on that homepage:
$ vagrant box add base http://files.vagrantup.com/lucid32.box [vagrantup.com]
Can it handle anything other than Debian-based distros? The web site seems silent on that.
What .box choices are available?
Grow a pair and read some man pages (Score:5, Insightful)
Why is this here? (Score:3, Insightful)
A. What a VPS is.
B. How to configure a VPS (a.k.a SERVER ).
Does know how to use Google. WTH editors.
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As much as I'd love to agree... (though, I still mainly agree with the "Google it" suggestion)... There are new people coming along all the time that may not know how to configure a VPS or even know what it is. Even in my day job I find that I have to explain things over and over again to the new people that have never dealt with something. I can't expect that everyone I talk to in my field knows everything I do and I may have to re-iterate some of my knowledge from time to time.
Wow, just wow. (Score:5, Funny)
and there's no remote desktop with a Linux server.
HAHAHAHAHA. Oh? You're serious? ALLOW ME TO LAUGH HARDER!
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Translation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System [wikipedia.org]
You can access x windows via windows using putty
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He means Linux distributions don't generally include an RDP server in their repository. Which is true [...]
$ apt-cache search xrdp
xrdp - Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) server
ORLY? Let me know what crappy distro you're using, so I can make a point of avoiding it. Ubuntu sure ain't one: http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=xrdp [ubuntu.com]
(Of course, we both agree that RDP isn't the right solution, but that's a secondary issue.)
Slashdot has died (Score:5, Insightful)
Slashdot is dead, and this is its rotting corpse.
WTF, I see why Taco left.
No remote desktop in linux? Oh teh noes might have to use SSH like a big boy.
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Slashdot is dead, and this is its rotting corpse.
Where shall we all go, then?
WTF, I see why Taco left.
No remote desktop in linux? Oh teh noes might have to use SSH like a big boy.
That's not the best bit. From the fine^W fucking article:
This is very handy if you don’t like the terminal file editor Vi (or Vim), as WinSCP provides an easier way to edit config files.
and this:
I started on PCs back in the pre-Windows days when DOS command line was the only game in town, but honestly, trying to navigate around a directory tree from a command line is a bit tedious! With WinSCP, it becomes easier as you get a higher-level view of the folder structure.
This bit's odd:
Interestingly, the Linux VPS seems about 10 times faster than the same spec Windows VPS.
(I don't mind the guy having his blog, and everyone starts learning somewhere. There's just no way it belongs on /., let alone the front page! I wonder if chose to write it, thinking it was useful, or was told to write it for Dice?)
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>> Slashdot is dead, and this is its rotting corpse.
> Where shall we all go, then?
'Tis truth. But... who shall bell the cat [wikipedia.org]?
Ever since Taco left, I find that I've been patching together select RSS feeds from other sites for my nerd news fix. But RSS lacks one thing: Slashdot commenters, for better or for worse.
Sometimes the discussion on /. degenerates into a bunch of shit-flinging monkeys, but dammit, they're our shit-flinging monkeys. Don't forget, editors: Slashdot is user-driven and the readers
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There is remote desktop, it's called "tightvncserver".
Sigh, really? (Score:3)
I hope this is a joke.
I already gave up on Slashdot once, and kept an eye on it and the quality visibly improved for a while.
If this is the level of crap that we're going to post, I'm happy to abandon the whole site again. I didn't miss it much for its absence.
P.S. If people here don't already know what a VPS is, how to run one, or how to pick holes in that article, this isn't the kind of website I want to frequent, and that's the USERS. The editors / posters? They should know better, ffs.
So far, an article on "Business Intelligence", a video about a fecking jacket, and this article have been enough to undo 10+ years of coming here.
Remote Desktop for Linux (Score:3, Informative)
Use NX Client for Windows - http://www.nomachine.com/download-package.php?Prod_Id=3835 [nomachine.com]
SSH (Score:3)
Use SSH. If you're stuck with windows on the client side, just install cygwin.
Why is this on the frontpage? Is it meant to be a "ask slashdot"? Or just really lame news?
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or if that is not enough work, install virtualbox with a similar distribution of Ubuntu as your VPS. Then do it again. Now you have two platforms to use a real shell and ssh. Why two? because you need practice to not kill access to the VPS. Use one of these as your access VM, use the other to edit away and never worry about losing any real work.
Dumbest Article Ever (Score:5, Insightful)
Hey guys, I'm a game developer and my computer doesn't run things that I need to use to develop games. So I bought a new computer. You see, a computer is a machine that runs software and computes things for you. It has a mouse, a keyboard, and a monitor. Some computers are big, but others are small. For instance, the computer I bought has 4GB of memory. That is more memory than other computers that have 2GB. When you buy a computer, it's maybe 90% set up for you, but you need to install the remaining 10% of things that you'll use and change the settings so it runs the way you like it. Computers are so neat.
This article isn't even asking a fucking question. It's just somebody telling the Slashdot crowd what a VPS is. What the fuck?
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Let me transpose this article to emphasize just how incredibly stupid this submission is:
Hey guys, I'm a game developer and my computer doesn't run things that I need to use to develop games. So I bought a new computer. You see, a computer is a machine that runs software and computes things for you. It has a mouse, a keyboard, and a monitor. Some computers are big, but others are small. For instance, the computer I bought has 4GB of memory. That is more memory than other computers that have 2GB. When you buy a computer, it's maybe 90% set up for you, but you need to install the remaining 10% of things that you'll use and change the settings so it runs the way you like it. Computers are so neat.
Are you Ric Romero?
I don't understand your question (Score:4, Interesting)
I've run Linux at home for ages. I use my Linux computer at home for email, development, and a whole host of other things. I don't need a remote desktop. The whole concept of one is completely foreign to the Linux world. Nobody would ever make one because the idea is pointless in a Linux environment.
ssh and the command line are all you really need, and they are significantly more flexible and powerful than any GUI I have used. And if you really need a GUI, that's what X11 is for. X11 is completely network transparent. You can run an X11 program on any random computer and have it display just fine on your desktop.
I don't know how to find a good X11 'server' (yes, the thing that runs on your desktop and actually pushes pixels around on behalf of GUI programs is a 'server' because it performs services (manipulating your display) on the behalf of clients) for Windows is. But you should investigate and get one if you really must have a GUI.
I actually find Windows reliance on remote desktops to be really primitive and constraining. Whenever I try to mess with how Windows is supposed to work through a GUI I'm always left wondering what really just happened. So many little invisible things and no way to really see how they all interact. You just have to trust the partial fiction displayed to you to be a reasonable reflection of the underlying reality. It's very frustrating and cumbersome.
There is an RDP server for linux (Score:2)
Install xrdp on the server. It allows you to connect to a Linux server using the Windows RDP client. Just make sure you have a secure tunnel to the virtual server to work in.
Thanks for the information (Score:5, Funny)
I did not know that and I bet, almost no one here on /. either.
SSH is insecure? (Score:3)
In the linked article, the author says:
Logging in to the root account, even over SSH, is potentially a little risky. If a key-logger gets installed on my desktop PC or a hacker breaks the password, then it’s game over. It’s possible to configure SSH on the server to use a public key/private key for remote logging, so I’m looking into setting that up.
Why is a a key-logger an issue for SSH, but not for whatever mechanism he'd use to manage a Windows server?
Logging on as root is risky, but not because of a keylogger - if he'd logged on with a non-root account that has sudo access, he wouldn't be any more secure. Using SSH public/private keys is definitely a good idea, but if someone has been able to install a keylogger on your computer, then there is no reason to think that they can't also grab your SSH keys and the passphrase to the keys.
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I like how he is looking into setting up something that takes less than 5 minutes to do. Maybe next he will look into that new fangled google thing all the kids are talking about.
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--fail
It is a wonder... (Score:3, Insightful)
It is a wonder Linux has such an image problem with anyone, but the converted. Granted this article may not be the best, but let's do a quick google search for the actual article that the poster is refering to:
http://news.dice.com/2012/12/10/linux-virtual-private-server/ [dice.com]
David Bolton talks about what he did. Good or bad, he documents it and shares it with his readers.
What do I read here, explatives, degrading remarks, and just plain snobbery. Here and there are some useful remarks. What I was hoping is to read a helpful discussion on what he recommends/did and what could be done better and how. There is so much vitriol to sort through, I don't even bother.
Pathetic.
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Re:It is a wonder... (Score:4, Insightful)
Maybe because slashdot.org is not the place for this kind of BS?
If this was Dummies.com or keyboardsscareme.com then I could see it. If you do not know what you are doing I highly recommend not showing that to everyone by making a webpage about your ignorance.
Post submitter... (Score:2)
My Solution (Score:5, Funny)
When faced with Virtual Management issues, I hire a Virtual Manager! They never show up for work, but they never complain either.
Get off the cloud (Score:3)
This is the type of guy who will store his source code in the cloud, then act surprised when his VPS company crashes and he loses all his data.
Get off the cloud man, you clearly have no idea what you're doing and will pay dearly for it in the long-run.
wtf... seriously: wtf? (Score:5, Insightful)
When I read this post, first I thought it was some kind of joke.
Then I started to feel the urge to hit someone, really hard.
Seriously people, how the heck does a beginner's beginner's noob's writing like this land on
Teenage Linux beginner bloggers do better than this.
You people need to reset your quality checking methods, and fast.
In Other News... (Score:5, Insightful)
In other news:
"Some Random Moron writes: 'For my reading of email, I've hit a point where I need a PC. (For more on this see My Search for Email Clients Begins.) I initially chose a Windows 7 PC because I know Windows best. A PC is just a "personal computer". "Personal" means it is an actual physical computer, running as if it were a real computer. "Computer" means it's an actual physical computer, running as if it were a real computer. Recently, though, I've run into a dead end, as it turns out that Windows 7 doesn't support Sparrow. So I switched to a Linux PC running Ubuntu desktop 12.04. Since my main smartphone runs iOS, the options to access my mail are initially quite limited, cause I'm a moron, and don't know how to use google. Though I pretend to be a web developer, I'm entirely outside my comfort zone if there isn't a big bold "easy button" for any trivial task I attempt, even when that task has been solved, posted about, blogged about, and had software specifically written to solve my exact issue. The main problem with a PC is that you have to self-manage it. It's maybe 90% set up for you, but you need the remaining 10%. You may have to install some software, edit a config file or two and occasionally bounce (stop then restart) daemons (Linux services), after editing their config files.'"
Seriously....can't remote into a Linux server? WTF?
Worst. Slashdot. Article. (Score:5, Insightful)
Ever.
Fuck this. (Score:3, Informative)
Dear slashdot editors, please forward this onto corp if it was upmodded enough to notice.
Because of this article pushed through geek.net, I am blocking all of your ads for one month.
That article is total drivel and crap. I don't care if you thought it was good. I don't care what demographic some idiot thought they were getting out to.
It's so dumbed down and idiotic as to be offensive. It isn't a legitimate slashdot. It isn't a legitimate ask slashdot as evidenced by the offsite link. It isn't even really a question. It's a shitty attempt to get us to click through to a crappy article with a crappy question written by someone who evidently can't even use google or IRC correctly.
Fuck your slashvertisements.
Some ideas (Score:4, Informative)
http://www.openssh.org/ - this goes on your server
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html - this goes on your windows 7 desktop
This is how linux works
https://code.google.com/edu/tools101/linux/basics.html
most configs are text files you edit
http://www.lagmonster.org/docs/vi.html
thats vi.
or nano learn to use this too
http://www.nano-editor.org/
updates are done with apt.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Packaging_Tool
http://packages.ubuntu.com/ - packages you can find by looking through ubuntu's web catalouge. Yes there is a search function.
Thats the polite way of saying RTFM. In a previous life, I'd call you an idiot.
In this life, it sounds like your in need of a full time sys admin, and I'm your man.
Re:Am I at the right website? (Score:5, Funny)
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I don't, but then again I have a quarter cab filled with servers ;)
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Re:30 posts (Score:4, Funny)
"HOW TO DRIVE CAR???? PLZ HELP!!"
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Don't anthropomorphize your daemons. They hate that!
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At least you are smart enough in the ways of server administration to not embarrass yourself on the front page of slashdot.
Re:I'm actualy considering leaving Slashdot (Score:5, Informative)
What has happened? It used to be so nice place to be.
I admire your long term memory. You remember 15 years ago like it was yesterday.