Setup a Cheap Vps for Virtualmin & Aegir for VPS Newbies

Setting up a cheap VPS with Virtualmin to use alongside Aegir
Check out the screencast at peterjolson.com
Peter Olson

In this video I will show you
how to setup a VERY cheap VPS so that a vps-newbie can:
Use a nice web interface (Virtualmin) to help manage their linux server
and
Use aegirto help with the creation, updating and overall managing of drupal websites.

I am NOT going to:
show you how to install aegir (see mig5’s video for that).
show you how to completely use Virtualmin.
show you how to use aegir.

Burst.net
Cheap $5.95USD per month VPS hosting
How to get started with BurstNETvps
How to setup linux on BurstNET
How to access your BurstNETaccount
https://www.burst.net/

Burst.net
I don’t know if BurstNETis anygood.
I do know its cheap
It got 'alright' reviews in several webhosting forums
Biggest complaint was that it took forever to create an account after it was ordered… (mine took 3 hours.. Woopty-do)

Burst.net – Oddity
Weird!

Burst.net – Account info

BurstNET – VPS Control Panel
Pretty basic
No overusage notification features like Linode offers.
If you installed the wrong OS to start out
or just want a fresh start after messing around
Go to: OS Reload
Change or reinstall operating systems

AutoPutty
Downloads/Installs:
Download and Install autoputty
http://www.techmixer.com/autoputty-advanced-putty-connection-manager/
Download and install portable putty
http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/putty_portable
Point autoputty at putty
Point autoputty at VPS
Name it whatever you want
Hostname is the ip from the Burstnet email
Username is ‘root’ (no quotes)
Password from the Burstnet email
Connect via SSH!!

SSH on Burstnet VPS
Reset root password
Command: passwd
Enter new password
Don’t screw it up or you could lock yourself out
Update linux for security reasons
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade

SSH – Start following Aegir Install
Go here:
http://groups.drupal.org/aegir-hosting-system/documentation
Click on “Generic, Debian-based instructions”
Install stuff:
apt-get install apache2 php5 php5-cli php5-mysql mysql-server postfix
Enter mysql root password
Select postfix install type
apt-get install sudogit-core unzip nano
I added nano to this line. It is a good text editor for linux shell newbies

Check out Part 2 to install Virtualmin

This is part 2, if you missed part 1… go check it out

Virtualmin
FREEEEEE
How to install virtualmin
With it, you can create servers spaces similar to the way WHM can with cpanel
Can use webmin to help manage your linux server
you can setup user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and much more
Do stuff that beginners dislike doing via command line

Virtualmin - install
Go here: http://www.virtualmin.com
Click the “Download” link, scroll to the bottom and right click on the link for "Linux and FreeBSD"
Copy link location
In putty:
Type: “wget” (space afterwords & no quotes)
Then paste the urlafter wget
This will download the install script
Install using the script
Type: shinstall.sh
Hit “y” to agree with stuff
Wait… wait…

Virtualmin - setup
After its installed:
Go to: https://yourip:10000
Don’t forget the “s” in https
Login using:
username: root
Password supplied in email (same one used in putty)
Before doing the setup wizard
Click on “webmin” -> “servers” -> “Mysql database server”
Type in the password you entered in when installing mysql
Go back to virtualmin

Virtualmin- setup
Set it up so as to use less memory
Make sure clamAV is set to NO, everything else should be default.

Virtualmin – Finishing Up
Go back to putty and run:
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
Up the php.ini memory
Type: nano /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
Hit: ctrl-w
type: memory
Change the “memory_limit” to 96M or higher
Hit ctrl-x, then y (yes), & hit enter to save & exit

DONE! – visit Mig5 to Finish
Go to:
http://www.mig5.net/content/video-installing-aegir-04-alpha5
Finish installing Aegir
Live the crazy Aegir life

Questions?

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Setup a Cheap Vps for Virtualmin & Aegir for VPS Newbies

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