PeterjOlson.com - These are the slides use in the video series. It talks about how to setup a cheap VPS host with virtualmin and preping it to install the Aegir - Drupal Hosting System. This video is very much pointed at VPS hosting newbies.

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

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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/

5. 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)

6. Burst.net – Oddity Weird!

7. Burst.net – Account info

8. 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

9. 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!!

10. 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

11. 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

12. Check out Part 2 to install Virtualmin

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

14. 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

15. 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…

16. 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

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

18. 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

19. 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

20. Questions?