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Yarden Sade
Yarden Sade
8,957 Points
Posted by Yarden Sade
Yarden Sade
8,957 Points

Starting a VPS+Dedicated server courses.

For me hosting and the ability to work around high level hosting sources like seems very much a part from the daily life of web devs who work a bit behinde the background, it would be extremely useful and effective if team tree house could start a track about how to operate such systems, with the variety of technologies and brands running today, as every big website and serious project are just too much for the common shared host, it could boost our level and let us deal with this kind of situations on better scale :)

What you guys think? Any chance TTH will consider it? I am sure someone in the team has a LOT of knowledge in the subject and could teach us noobies some interesting things about it.

4 Answers

Felipe Laso-Marsetti
Felipe Laso-Marsetti
3,158 Points
Felipe Laso-Marsetti
Felipe Laso-Marsetti
3,158 Points

I would love courses about this. I have a basic $5 droplet on DigitalOcean.com with Ubuntu Server installed. I can install stuff from the command line and manage my way no problem as I've worked with RVM, Ruby Gems, NPM, and Apache Tomcat. But, I am far far far from a devops or good web manager.

It would be epic to have courses on how to run a VPS, setup Django, Node, Rails, etc. on those. Installing databases, securing our servers and sites, and more! :)

Anthony c
Anthony c
20,907 Points
Anthony c
Anthony c
20,907 Points

even setting up a droplet an using Ubuntu servers is over my head...

A course on this would be great

Anthony c
Anthony c
20,907 Points
Anthony c
Anthony c
20,907 Points

even setting up a droplet an using Ubuntu servers is over my head...

A course on this would be great

Yarden Sade
Yarden Sade
8,957 Points
Yarden Sade
Yarden Sade
8,957 Points

Exactly, for my point of view its essential!

Anthony c
Anthony c
20,907 Points
Anthony c
Anthony c
20,907 Points

bump again....

Can anyone suggest good resources for learning the basic terminology and concepts around this? Blog posts, (up to date) books?

My concern with googling a good book is I don't want to waste time reading an out-of-date book as many services have abstracted away the "old school" issues and setup....

Most resources talk about different brands, or assume the reader knows way more about the subject than they do. There are so many terms and acronyms... it'd be great to get a very basic run down.... even a blogpost.