Paying Subscriber's Feedback and Request
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Jose R. Lopez
MemberHello everyone, I just subscribed yesterday and wanted to share my unbiased experience, both good and bad just to be fair and neutral about this website.
I'll begin with the bad:
- Right after signing up, I had this feeling I shouldn't have. This is because as it was suggested, most things are simply copy paste. Shortly after copy pasting (without actually reading) I realized I was being a complete noob and rushing my way on something that is delicate and requires precision.
- The content in the site, while very in depth in the subject makes some faulty assumptions. This is not necessarily bad, but people should know before they sign up. Some of this assumptions are: your vps provider, the distro being used and the fact that you wont make any errors. If you make errors, you will either get frustrated by not being able to complete the guide or you can cool down, take a break and start all over again paying close attention.
The Goods:
- If you take the time to actually read and understand what you are doing while following the commands you are copy pasting, you will most likely succeed. Even when you run into problems, if you have some very basic understanding of what is going on you will most likely be able to figure it out and address it. Even when you use a different distro from the ones suggested in the guide.
- Even if the tutorials or the guides are not 100% for you or they don't fully suit you, they do offer great information for us Noobs, like securing your server, setting up firewal, user management among many other things which I found particular useful not only for setting up a new vps but to secure and tighten other existent ones.
- The video guides are a big plus, there are extra commentaries and information offered in them which may also help you understand things a bit better.
Overall, though my initial feel of subscribing was a bit obscured, I feel now very confident this is a very good source of information and simple to follow instructions for some very critical and troublesome processes when administering your own VPS and I would recommend it to anyone.
Be warn tho, don't go dive in and start copy pasting stuff without understanding what you are doing or you will get frustrated if something doesn't work exactly as expected. Take your time to read through as you copy paste.
Having said the above, I do have some requests:
- Though the guide recommends 32 bit distro, personally I am unable to precisely follow this. My vps environment only has available 64 bit distro. So an initial suggestion would be to setup additional instructions for things which may differ in 64 bit distro.
- I am sure many vps owners use CENTOS (I know I do, and I like it), I would love to have some CENTOS scripts/guides as well.
- Cleanup of a new installed distro. As I was going through the ultimate vps guide, I eventually came across some problems (conflicts) which were the result that my Ubuntu Distro had already installed apache. Ideally, the guide should open up with removing any possible conflicting package which may be present depending on the installed image.
- Last but not least, I would love to have the latest PHP build (5.3.2) as of this writing. The current guide is for 5.3.0. Perhaps I could attempt this myself and see if I don't run into any problems, but I have yet to attempt it.
That's about it.
Cheers,
Jose R. LopezPosted 1 year ago # -
cheers jose .. comments appreciated
- CentOS is required, I agree 100%
- 64bit would be nice but 32bit tends to perform better so, TBH, I'd swap for a VPS with a 32bit option .. can't say 64bit guides are a priority although really it's only a tweak here and there
- PHP 5.3.2 .. you are right, I've been waiting for the devs to have FPM nicely tucked into the core which, now, it pretty much is .. updating the guides for that is a priority, as will be an upgrade script.
Posted 1 year ago # -
jacquelinek
MemberI know we were warned about this not being a guide for mac users but I went ahead anyway. Found I could skip the entire putty bit.
But yea I came across issues because I have a different image and chose not to go with the creator's particular web host, Linode. It would be nice if the guide was written for people on other servers/webhosts or more generic at least (and of course mac users).
Furthermore I chose a debian/nginx image which I'm still trying to figure out. Why? because I heard NGINX is the absolute hands down best webserver you can use for wordpress. Are there any alternatives? I dont know. Is setting up a different system and then using nginx as a proxy possible? I have no idea. I came across this concept of "ngnix as proxy" in the forums and wondering if thats what i want but i have no idea what that is.
So anyway, I find that I have to use other sources (the web and other forums on top of this guide to get around and to get things in the mac CLI to work).
If it were indeed written for people in multiple situations as this this guide would be not only helpful but an absolute gem.
So I'm writing this to encourage you to write for a wider base if you can.
Posted 1 year ago # -
Jacqueline, sorry to hear but did you follow the Windows guide?
If you were trying PuTTY then you were following the Windows guide ..
.. you'd have had a lot more joy with the Linux route .. Linux and Macs are cousins. Terminal use is pretty much the same.
I'll clarify the docs, following your experience. I'm sorry if this is the problem you had.
If you want an Ubuntu/Nginx system it should make no difference which provider you use though, sometimes excepting the way they handle DNS .. a server is a server, just a box with some kit in it, strapped onto the web.
Posted 1 year ago #
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