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When you want to setup your web server, you have a few different options. The first is shared hosting, which is very cheap but does not provide a lot of flexibility. On the other end of the spectrum, you could rent or buy your own server and have it hosted. The problem is that this will cost quite a lot of money, and give you a lot of pain and frustration as you try to manage it. In between is a VPS - Virtual Private Server. It offers all of the benefits of owning your own server, but the hardware is virtualized which makes it a great value. In this video, we'll show you how to setup a VPS with Linode.
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If you wanna set up a web server, you have a few different options.
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You could go with shared hosting.
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Now that's very cheap, but it does not provide a lot of flexibility.
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On the other end of the spectrum, you could
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rent or buy your own server and have it hosted.
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That, however does cost quite a bit of money and will cause
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a lot of pain and frustration as you try to manage it.
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In between you have the VPS, or virtual private server.
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It offers all the benefits of having
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your own server that you can install anything you want on,
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however the hardware itself has virtualized making it a great value.
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We'll be setting up a virtual private server with Linode.
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One of my favorite VPS providers.
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To get started we go to linode.com and click on Sign Up.
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Then all we have to do is give our username and password.
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And type in our billing information.
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After we do that, we need to select our plan.
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Linode provides several different plans at different price points and power levels.
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We're gonna be choosing the Linode 1024 because it's
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about the size that I want for my server.
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You can resize your Linode later on if you want, there will be a little bit
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of downtime though, so I'm going to choose
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Linode 1024, and then we choose our payment term.
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We can go month to month, but if we pay a
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year or for two years, we can get a nice little discount.
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Then all we need to do
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is click on Continue to sign up.
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Your account should be activated right away, or
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it might just take a couple of minutes.
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Now that your account has been activated, we're gonna
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go back to Linode.com and click on Log in.
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We'll type in our username and password.
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Once we sign in, we'll have to choose a data center for our server to live in.
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There are many of them available throughout the world,
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and which one you choose is up to you.
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You may choose the one that is nearest to you or
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nearest to where your customers who might be accessing your servers live.
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I'm gonna choose Atlanta because I'm on the east coast
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of the United States and that's the nearest one to me.
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I'll just click place the Linode here.
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Now it's going to take us to the Rebuild tab for our Linode.
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This is where we'll set up and provision our
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server with the operating system options that we want.
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The first thing that we need to choose is our distribution.
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I'm going to suggest that we use Ubuntu
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12.04 LTS and I'm gonna choose it in 64-bit.
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If you don't know which Linux distribution you want, Ubuntu is a good choice.
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12.04 was released in early 2012, and the LTS means it's
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a long-term provided Linux version, which means that this particular
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version of Ubuntu will be supported for a couple of years.
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Then we choose our deployment disk size.
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By default, it's going to use the entire
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disk of our Linode for this operating system.
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That's probably a good default.
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As well as a swap disk, we also recommend use the default provided to you.
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The last thing we need is to choose our
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root password, which we'll use to log into our system.
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Let me just set it up.
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Once you've got all the options just click Rebuild, and it will build your server.
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Then all we need to do is wait for Linode to build our server for us.
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This will take a few minutes, but you can
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track its status on the dashboard page for your Linode,
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once the provisioning is completed, all we need to
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do is click on Boot to start up our Linode.
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Click OK, and it'll start up your server.
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The next thing we need to do is log in to our Linode.
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