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    Question Help appreciated

    Hello everyone. New to this forum and hope I'm in the right spot. Recently decided to rent a vps for me and my families websites however I am unsure of what to do nxt. Next steps, Advice or links to guides would be very appreciated. I have a decent knowledge of computers and have used many shared hosting services in the past with mild Linux exposure.

    My VPS came with the Operating System Cent OS 5 - 32 bit (OpenVZ) showing in my VPS Control Panel, With "vps-master" prefix showing in the URL

    What should I do now to get setup and functional. Put up my hosting files onto the VPS, security concerns etc.

    Thank you.

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    Take a look at this guide. That should tell you everything you need to know, at least to get started.

    http://entomy.com/VPS-Server-Configuration-Guide.pdf

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    Linode has fairly comprehensive documentation for beginners.

    http://library.linode.com/

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    Thanks guys, looking...

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    You can also install Kloxo and it will provide a default configuration, installing a web server, MySQL and PHP. They have ample help in their forums.

    Keep things simple at first, and learn as you go.

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    Thanks for the information.

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    Anyone have any other options for a guide which will work with 256mb ram (burst 512) as this Kloxo & webmin tut maxes out the mem as well as errors.

    OpenVZ/CentO S. installed.

    Any specific guides out there for complete setup?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scribbler View Post
    Anyone have any other options for a guide which will work with 256mb ram (burst 512) as this Kloxo & webmin tut maxes out the mem as well as errors.

    OpenVZ/CentO S. installed.

    Any specific guides out there for complete setup?
    Take a look there

    http://www.sonoracomm.com/support/18...4-minimal-svcs
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    There are 2 options when installing kloxo:

    1) Full install (kloxo will install mysql server for you)

    2) Install Kloxo with mysql ALREADY installed.

    For low memory vps, you need to use option 2.

    Install mysql server first, e.g.

    - yum install mysql-server
    - edit my.cnf file to lower the memory usage (see sample below)
    - service mysqld start
    - mysql_secure_installation (to set a root password to mysql)

    Then, follow the Kloxo install instruction for Option #2


    Sample low-memory mysql config file (my.cnf)
    ---------------------------------------------
    [mysqld]
    user = mysql
    datadir = /var/lib/mysql
    socket = /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
    tmpdir = /tmp
    skip-external-locking
    key_buffer = 8M
    max_allowed_packet = 8M
    thread_cache_size = 8
    thread_stack = 192K
    myisam-recover = BACKUP
    query_cache_limit = 1M
    query_cache_size = 8M
    log_error = /var/log/mysql/error.log
    expire_logs_days = 10
    max_binlog_size = 50M
    skip-innodb

    [client]
    socket = /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock

    [mysqld_safe]
    socket = /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
    nice = 0

    [mysqld_safe]
    log-error=/var/log/mysqld.log
    pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid

    [mysqldump]
    quick
    quote-names
    max_allowed_packet = 16M

    [isamchk]
    key_buffer = 8M

    --------------------------------------


    Quote Originally Posted by Scribbler View Post
    Anyone have any other options for a guide which will work with 256mb ram (burst 512) as this Kloxo & webmin tut maxes out the mem as well as errors.

    OpenVZ/CentO S. installed.

    Any specific guides out there for complete setup?

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    I have found lots of awesome Video Tutorials on LYNDA.com. This site has tutorials for everything you could think of, from setting up a VPS to SEO and Social Media Marketing. It costs around $20.00, but for me, it has paid for itself many times over.The good thing about LYNDA is that you can save your progress, go back to earlier lessons/tutorials, so you can basically learn at your own pace.
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    The more information the better. Ty.

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    Quote Originally Posted by vpswing View Post
    There are 2 options when installing kloxo:
    Followed your instructions and received this error:
    Timeout error occurred trying to start MySQL Daemon. ?

    Suggestions?

    Can these settings be edited after a completed install of webmin and kloxo (with kloxo installing mysql on it's own)? There was also mention of webmin only compatible with certain version of mysql3?

    Any help appreciated, ty.

    Starting to think this is more trouble then it's worth without a definitive guide.

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