Dedicated Server with Ubuntu help?
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| I've rented a Dedicated server. All I have is Ubuntu installed on it and have full root access. Are there any tutorials for the linux newbie to migrating my website to that server? It's more difficult than I thought it would be. I have to set up dns myself, mail servers, blah blah and I'm lost like a biddy bug in a big garden. :) Please help! |
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| I've not tried setting up a server, but if I did I would just start at the beginning, take plenty of time for reading and try to stay calm. :) https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/serverguide/C/index.html |
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| Unless both your old and new server use a similar control panel like cpanel , I don't think there's a way to export your old config/settings and import it on the new one... So especially if you have things that depend on databases on the back-end, moving the site is going to be a fairly involved process... |
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| I died today. I'm about to die again. take plenty of time for reading and try to stay calm. :) I miss windows. :) Unless both your old and new server use a similar control panel like cpanel , I don't think there's a way to export your old config/settings and import it on the new one... So especially if you have things that depend on databases on the back-end, moving the site is going to be a fairly involved process... I was afraid of that. :) |
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| Ubuntu is quite easy to set up as a server. What do you want it to do? |
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| Don't have the direct link to it here, but google for it. Rackspace Cloud Servers has some nice Ubuntu tutorials on setting up your system. |
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| http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4456961 This may or may not be helpful, it is a small tutorial for making a personal file/mail server out of desktop ubuntu. My box is also is an apache/sql server too for development purposes, but that is just a case of installing LAMP and following the config instructions which are quite easy going. |
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| This article is pretty cool, I hope it is helpful to you: http://nanotux.com/blog/the-ultimate-server/ Do have a read, it goes from setting up ubuntu, mysql and then email integration with google mail |
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| On a side note, may I ask why you moved to a dedicated server without any prior knowledge on operating it? At least that's the impression I'm getting here. Why didn't you choose for a managed dedicated server? That way you still have a dedicated server, but the company you rent it from is doing the system management. |
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