WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ALL MY LIFE!

I’m not sure how long they’ve been providing this service but I do know I’ve been missing out. Say good bye to limits imposed by your current hosting providers. Rackspace offers a virtually dedicated server of your own for probably less than what your spending right now. Choose a server size and pay for what you use. They offer root access and it’s fully customizable.

HOW IT WORKS

You select the size of your server. Anything from 256 up to 16 GB, then you select your operating system. If you’re a more experience Linux user and love the technical stuff you will consider going with Fedora, or if you’re more of a beginner (like me) and need a community you won’t be afraid to ask question in, you’d select something like Ubuntu. Then you can start playing with it. They provide you with a graphical shell you can use to start plugin away, start up terminal (on a mac), or download Putty on windows.

WHY I’M MOVING

It’s complicated really, my main reason for going with Gearhost in the first place was because they provide great Coldfusion service for a very low price. Well, after the last Adobe Max conference I went to, I realized just how expensive programming for Adobe can be, and Enterprise level solutions are starting to be something I’m interested in. Coldfusion Enterprise is something out of my price range, and LiveCycle ES2 is something not even our clients can afford. I don’t think I’m the only one who feels this way. So I’ve decided to learn JAVA and hope that Adobe provides a free Coldfusion solution in the near future.

Don’t get me wrong, if your looking for great Coldfusion hosting, check out Gearhost. I don’t think you’ll be disappointed.

WANT TO FOLLOW ME?

You’ll have to know some Linux, and well, just about 3 weeks ago, I didn’t know it either. Beginning Ubuntu Server Administration: From Novice to Professional was a great book to help me get started. But here’s a few commands to help you get started…

#Change Directory
root@yourserver:~# cd /directory
 
#See Files and Folers in Current Directory
root@yourserver:~# ls
 
#View File Conents
root@yourserver:~# cat yourfile
 
#Edit A File
root@yourserver:~# vim yourfile
#To quit the editor hit escape, then, type ':wq!' without quotes to save it, 
#or type ':q!' to quite without saving.  
 
#Create A File
root@yourserver:~# touch filename
 
#Removes File
root@yourserver:~# rm yourfile
 
#Create a Directory
root@yourserver:~# mkdir directory

You don’t have to type in the “root@yourserver:~#” part. ‘root’ is the user your logged in as and ‘yourserver’ is your server. I hope this helps someone. And if anybody wants, I could post a detailed explanation on how to set up your new server for wordpress.