vps

Installing BigBlueButton .70 or .71 on a VPS (an openvz vps) with Ubuntu 9.04

So I decided I wanted to test out BBB (big blue button) and after looking at the instructions I was thinking "this is going to be cake".  Oh if it were only so...

I found out that most VPS systems don't allow you to change the kernel, so when you get the kernel source.. it freaks out. ...Read more...

Recent VPS Install Error - perl: warning: Setting locale failed

Today I was running through the motions of getting another VPS server setup with Ubuntu 8.0.4 86_x64 with Aegir and I ran into an error I've never had before: ...Read more...

Setting up a Cheap VPS for Virtualmin and Aegir for VPS Newbies

Aegir .4 Alpha 5 Came out last week and so I thought i would do a quick video for those VPS newbies out.  Aegir really is sweet and if you are wanting to ever just test it, this is a good starting point for you.

This can be done w/ almost any linux VPS host.  I chose to go with Burstnet for the screencast because they got decent reviews from web hosting forums and is DIRT cheap.

I would recommend Linode if you are looking for a good VPS host.  I have a node w/ them and they have always been wonderful.  Don't take my word for it, they have hundreds of reviews all over the web bragging them up.

So don't be scared... jump right in.

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